When I logged into Twitter yesterday and saw “Ben Shapiro” trending, I braced myself for one of two possibilities: Either the conservative commentator put his foot in his mouth, or, more likely, the pretend journalists at Media Matters for America had once again sparked faux outrage by misrepresenting something he said and stripping it of all context.

Naturally, it proved to be the latter.

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