I have been a follower and supporter of Ben Shapiro for a long time. I’ve thought that he is a genius, very articulate; he gets on stage and he tears down Jew haters, you know, boom, boom, boom. It’s awesome to watch. But recently, a couple of the things he said have concerned me, and I want to focus on one of them because he keeps harping on it. I want to contrast him with somebody else who is also a public figure whose values I think are more in line with Judaism than someone who parades around with a yarmulke on his head and is a very public Orthodox Jew.

So let’s get into it. Ben Shapiro has publicly doubted the rape of the victim at Cornell at the frat party. Now, I have followed the story very closely; I followed all the objections, all the texts, all the naysayers, and I am firmly, firmly convinced that she was lured to the party by her friend Matthew Ingalls.

He convinced her that he liked her, that he was into her, you know. She showed up drunk, she willingly participated in a certain amount of sex, and was drugged, drugged, and drugged. Basically, on ketamine, you are extremely dissociated from what is going on, and they, you know, they sent around the text, the Snapchat, you know all this; they advertised “free blank upstairs,” and afterward she was going like, “Hey, what happened, guys?” You know, most of what happened was all right. She had no clue of what happened. So she is clearly a victim of gang rape, in my opinion.

Ben Shapiro has just as definitively said, “No, no, her story is nonsense, no, no, no.” I can’t imagine how someone could be at once so logical and so definitive unless they have a bias against women, unless they have this stereotypical attitude of “some women are good, some women are bad, and the bad ones deserve what they get.”

Well, fast forward to Saturday Night Live and the tasteless joke made by the comedian Shane Gillis, who said that women at the gym dress like horses. He used the word horses. Now, comedians make tasteless jokes, but especially with the current, you know, real wave of women coming forward to talk about their victimization and the focus on Cornell and fraternity culture generally—we just saw that at the University of Chicago, yet another woman was in the middle of being gang-raped in a bathroom, and two other women had to knock down the door and rescue her, with one man pulling her back by her hair.

In that whole context, that set of jokes was very tone-deaf and inappropriate. But who shows up but Ben Shapiro, and he’s defending Shane Gillis and saying that the liberals are having a meltdown? And then again, on Facebook, he’s doubling down.

Ben Shapiro saying, “Nah, rape isn’t happening. It’s not that bad.” Ben, look at the numbers. They’re even worse than what’s reported. Most victims don’t even come forward, never mind in the United States. Look at the rest of the world; it’s a pretty bad situation.

Ben Shapiro has a problem with women. He has a problem with women unless they’re like his perfect idealized image—and everyone should live and be well, unless they’re the perfect female. Ben blames women for their own victimization for not being perfect enough in his mind: not modest enough, not traditional enough, not good enough, whatever.

Contrast this with Dan Levy. Dan Levy never wears his religion on his sleeve, but he has assembled a corpus of work with Schitt’s Creek and his other work that I’ve seen, where he deeply invests in the humanity of the people that he is talking about. He portrays us as inherently flawed, looking for love, and deserving of love, even if he’s sort of unsparing about how, you know, irresponsible, nasty, sarcastic, whatever we can be.

In fact, that is the whole theme of Schitt’s Creek, right? I mean, it’s that the rich family has to come to terms with being no better than anybody else. Dan Levy was firmly, publicly opposed to that monologue, and he said it really showed something about the misogyny of the comedian rather than the content of the comedy, essentially, and that men need to—and they do, they do do this, but Dan was endorsing it—come forward and protect women, not blame them.

And he didn’t say this, but I would add: remember that many men and boys are victims of sex crimes, and if women don’t talk, men really don’t talk. I mean, that is a very embarrassing thing all the way around.

So does Ben Shapiro portray Jewish values by cheapening women and blaming them for their own victimization? Hell no. And don’t be fooled by the online persona. Does Dan Levy portray Jewish values by insisting on dignity and respect for every human being? Yes, absolutely. And that is why we should never look at the outside appearance of someone or who they claim to be. We need to judge them by the things that they say and do. That is so much more important.

And honestly, I didn’t want to make this video, but I can see that Ben Shapiro is an influencer who’s doubling down on his truly unfair, distressing, non-Jewish, very immoral treatment of women, and something has to be said. It’s just wrong. And for Dan Levy, great job.