Ben Shapiro explains why moral truths transcend personal identity and demographic labels

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]As a woman, and somebody going into the healthcare field, how do you defend your opinion as a white, well-off, religious man telling another woman what she can do with her body?

[00:00:09]>> things are still evil, even if I'm a white, well-off, religious man. The reason being that the people who were fighting against enslavement of black people were a bunch of well-off white men for the most part, right? And those people were saying, "This is a moral sin. This is a moral blot." They weren't living in the South, they didn't own plantations, they didn't live the lives of the plantation owners. They said, "This is evil, and we are here to stop it." I would suggest that my identity has nothing to do with what is right or wrong. And this is what Western civilization used to be about. Western civilization used to be about the idea that yes, I'm not a woman in the healthcare field, but you and I can have a conversation about what's right and wrong because this is the nature of human reason. The idea that I can have a moral stance on issues that are of concern to society and of concern to the to the well-being of the United States simply because of the color of my skin or the nature of my genitalia. And honestly, I believe any of you that feels differently is sexist, racist, and bigoted.