Editing Dinesh D'Souza (section)

==Views==
{{Conservatism US}}
D'Souza is generally identified as a [[Neoconservatism|neoconservative]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9cQkXIWn2EC|title=The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought|last=Murphy|first=Paul V.|date=2001|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-4960-6|page=247|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ourhBwAAQBAJ|title=Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America|last=Nguyen|first=Viet Thanh|date=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-028723-8|language=en}}</ref> He defines [[Conservatism in the United States|conservatism in the American sense]] as "conserving the principles of the [[American Revolution]]."<ref>D'Souza (2002), ''Letters to a Young Conservative'', p. 5</ref> In ''Letters to a Young Conservative'', written as an introduction to conservative ideas for youth, D'Souza argues that it is a blend of [[classical liberalism]] and ancient [[virtue]], in particular, "the belief that there are moral standards in the universe and that living up to them is the best way to have a full and happy life." He also argues against what he calls the modern [[liberalism|liberal]] belief that "human nature is intrinsically good," and thus that "the great conflicts in the world ... arise out of terrible misunderstandings that can be corrected through ongoing conversation and through the mediation of the [[United Nations]]."<ref>{{Cite book |last=D'Souza |first=Dinesh |title=Letters to a Young Conservative |year=2002 |page=9}}</ref>

In the book ''Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus'' (1991), D'Souza argued that intolerance of conservative views is common at many universities. He has attributed many modern social problems to what he calls the "cultural left."<ref>{{Cite book |last=D'Souza |first=Dinesh |title=Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus |year=1991}}</ref> In the same book, D'Souza criticized the [[Affirmative action in the United States|affirmative action]] policies of the [[University of California, Berkeley]].
D'Souza has also been critical of [[feminism]], and Bruce Goldner, in a review of D'Souza's ''Illiberal Education'', noted that he "has a tendency to characterize feminists as castrating [[Misanthropy|misanthropes]]".<ref name=":12">{{cite journal|title=Rev. of ''Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus'' by Dinesh D'Souza|first=Bruce|last=Goldner|journal=[[Michigan Law Review]]|volume=90|issue=6|year=1992|pages=1291–1307|doi=10.2307/1289414|jstor=1289414|url=https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2297&context=mlr|archive-date=October 31, 2020|access-date=September 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031020447/https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2297&context=mlr|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Religion===
D'Souza attended the [[Evangelicalism in the United States|evangelical]] church [[Calvary Chapel]] from 2000 to about 2010.<ref>{{cite news|first=Carl E.|last=Olson|title=Then: Dinesh D'Souza leaves Catholic Church. Now: He leaves wife.|publisher=Catholic World Report|date=October 16, 2012|access-date=October 5, 2019|url=https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2012/10/16/then-dinesh-dsouza-leaves-catholic-church-now-he-leaves-wife/|archive-date=October 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005210529/https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2012/10/16/then-dinesh-dsouza-leaves-catholic-church-now-he-leaves-wife/|url-status=live}}</ref> While stating that his Catholic background is important to him, D'Souza also says he is comfortable with [[Protestant Reformation]] theology and identifies as a nondenominational Christian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/2010/08/dsouzas-just-plain-confused.html|title=Jesus Creed – Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith for today|date=August 25, 2010|publisher=beliefnet.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826193306/http://blog.beliefnet.com/jesuscreed/2010/08/dsouzas-just-plain-confused.html|archive-date=August 26, 2010}}</ref> A writer of [[Christian apologetics]], D'Souza has debated against prominent atheists and critics of Christianity on religious and moral issues. His debate opponents have included [[Dan Barker]], [[Christopher Hitchens]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nd.edu/~cprelig/nddebate|title=Is Religion the Problem?|publisher=[[University of Notre Dame]]|access-date=September 25, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811085727/http://www.nd.edu/~cprelig/nddebate/|archive-date=August 11, 2010}}</ref> [[Peter Singer]],<ref>[http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/component/search/Peter%20Singer?ordering=&searchphrase=all "Can There Be Morality without God?"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716165424/http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/component/search/Peter%20Singer?ordering=&searchphrase=all |date=July 16, 2011 }} Retrieved November 29, 2010.</ref> [[Daniel Dennett]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://richarddawkins.net/article,1942,Daniel-Dennett-Debates-Dinesh-DSouza,Tufts-University |title=Daniel Dennett debates Dinesh D'Souza |publisher=RichardDawkins.net |date=December 1, 2007 |access-date=January 8, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120072015/http://richarddawkins.net/article%2C1942%2CDaniel-Dennett-Debates-Dinesh-DSouza%2CTufts-University |archive-date=January 20, 2008 }}</ref> [[Michael Shermer]], [[David Silverman (activist)|David Silverman]],<ref>[http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643668-update-video-replaced-david-silverman-debates-dinesh-d-souza David Silverman Debates Dinesh D'souza] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031154139/http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643668-update-video-replaced-david-silverman-debates-dinesh-d-souza |date=October 31, 2011 }}, ''[[Richard Dawkins Foundation]]''; accessed December 24, 2016.</ref> and [[Bart D. Ehrman]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tkc.edu/abouttkc/president/dsouza/president_blog.asp |title=The King's College, ''President's Blog'' |publisher=Tkc.edu |date=August 31, 2010 |access-date=November 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214161639/http://www.tkc.edu/abouttkc/president/dsouza/president_blog.asp |archive-date=February 14, 2012 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.fixed-point.org/index.php/blog/216-whywesuffer "Debating 'God's Problem': Why We Suffer"]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=Judgesurreal777 |fix-attempted=yes }}, fixed-point.org; retrieved November 29, 2010.</ref>

As a guest contributor for ''[[The Christian Science Monitor|Christian Science Monitor]]'', D'Souza wrote, "The moral teachings of Jesus provide no support for—indeed they stand as a stern rebuke to—the historical injustices perpetrated in the name of Christianity."<ref name="csmonitor">[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html Dinesh D'Souza, "Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213140711/http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html |date=December 13, 2007 }}, ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]'', November 21, 2006.</ref> He often speaks out against [[atheism]], nonbelief in spirituality, and [[secularism]]. D'Souza elaborated on his views in the 2007 book he authored, ''What's so Great about Christianity''. In 2009, he published ''Life After Death: The Evidence'', which argues for an [[afterlife]].

D'Souza has also commented on [[Islam]]. He stated in 2007 that "radical Islamic" thinkers have not condemned modernity, science or freedom but only United States' support of "secular dictators in the region" which deny "Muslims freedom and control over their own destiny".<ref>{{cite web|first=Brian|last=Saint-Paul|url=http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/saint-paul/00041.html|title=Knowing the Enemy – Dinesh D'Souza on Islam and the West|publisher=Catholicity.com|date=January 31, 2007|access-date=September 25, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613182722/http://www.catholicity.com/commentary/saint-paul/00041.html|archive-date=June 13, 2011}}</ref> He has debated [[Serge Trifkovic]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trifkovic vs. D'Souza|url=http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007416.html|access-date=2020-12-21|website=www.amnation.com|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024090110/http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007416.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Robert Spencer (author)|Robert Spencer]], who both deem Islam "inherently aggressive, racist, violent, and intolerant." He has labelled Spencer an "[[Islamophobia|Islamophobe]]" and "an effective [[polemics|polemicist]]" in his writings on Islam.<ref name="Bin Laden">{{cite web|first=Dinesh|last=D'Souza|url=http://www.newageislam.com/radical-islamism-and-jihad/is-islam-the-problem?-why-is-america-letting-bin-laden-define-islam?/d/1149|publisher=AOL|title=Letting Bin Laden Define Islam|date=March 2, 2007|access-date=October 18, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130129201603/http://www.newageislam.com/radical-islamism-and-jihad/is-islam-the-problem?-why-is-america-letting-bin-laden-define-islam%3F/d/1149|archive-date=January 29, 2013}}</ref> D'Souza has also warned against support for "a $100 million mosque scheduled to be built near the site where terrorists in the name of Islam brought down the World Trade Center" (i.e., the [[Park51|Park 51 Islamic community center and mosque project]]),<ref name=forbes-HOT/> and the Middle East becoming a "United States of Islam"<ref name="WEBSTER-12-8-12">{{cite news |last1=WEBSTER |first1=ANDY |title=Documentary Exploring Obama's Political Roots |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/movies/2016-obamas-america-by-dinesh-dsouza.html |access-date=June 9, 2018 |agency=New York Times |date=August 12, 2012 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140429/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/movies/2016-obamas-america-by-dinesh-dsouza.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in his attacks against President [[Barack Obama]].

D'Souza has [[Criticism of atheism|criticized atheism]], writing: "The crimes of atheism have generally been perpetrated through a hubristic ideology that sees man, not God, as the creator of values. Using the latest techniques of science and technology, man seeks to displace God and create a [[Secularity|secular]] [[utopia]] here on earth".<ref>{{Cite news |last=D'Souza |first=Dinesh |date=2006-11-21 |title=Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history |work=Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html |access-date=2022-05-08 |issn=0882-7729 |archive-date=May 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508012858/https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Promotion of conspiracy theories===
D'Souza has promoted several [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], such as the false claim that [[Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories|Obama was not born in the United States]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Seipel|first=Brooke|date=2018-05-31|title=President Trump pardons Dinesh D'Souza|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390029-trump-to-pardon-dinesh-dsouza/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[The Hill (magazine)|The Hill]]|language=en|quote=Like Arpaio and Trump, D'Souza promoted the unfounded conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was ineligible to serve as president because he was born outside the U.S.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180601143931/http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390029-trump-to-pardon-dinesh-dsouza |archive-date=June 1, 2018 }}</ref><ref name=":10" /> and the conspiracy theory that [[Clinton body count conspiracy theory|the Clintons had murdered people]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tani|first=Maxwell|date=November 6, 2017|title=Donald Trump Jr. revives conspiracy theory about Clintons amid Donna Brazile controversy|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-2017-11|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[Business Insider]]|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171106012712/http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-2017-11 |archive-date=November 6, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Weber|first=Peter|date=August 12, 2019|title=Dinesh D'Souza tried to use his time behind bars to bolster Epstein conspiracy theory, failed|url=https://theweek.com/speedreads/858426/dinesh-dsouza-tried-use-time-behind-bars-bolster-epstein-conspiracy-theory-failed|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[The Week]]|language=en|quote=Over the weekend, D'Souza tried to leverage his eight months in a federal correctional center to lend authority to the bizarre, evidently Trump-endorsed conspiracy theory that the Clintons might be responsible for Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812075658/https://theweek.com/speedreads/858426/dinesh-dsouza-tried-use-time-behind-bars-bolster-epstein-conspiracy-theory-failed |archive-date=August 12, 2019 }}</ref> D'Souza has also promoted false claims about businessman and philanthropist [[George Soros]], including that Soros had collaborated with the Nazis as a youth, and that he has sponsored [[Antifa (United States)|antifa]], a left-wing [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]] movement.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pink|first=Aiden|date=October 31, 2018|title=4 Times Dinesh D'Souza Should Have Kept Quiet About The Jews|url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/402155/4-times-dinesh-dsouza-should-have-kept-quiet-about-the-jews/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=[[The Forward]]|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204110615/https://forward.com/fast-forward/402155/4-times-dinesh-dsouza-should-have-kept-quiet-about-the-jews/ |archive-date=December 4, 2018 }}</ref> In an August 2016 interview with ''[[GQ]]'', D'Souza denied being a conspiracy theorist, stating: "I have never advanced a conspiracy theory in my life."<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-08-22|title=Dinesh D'Souza on His Batshit Hillary Doc, Donald Trump, and Why He Doesn't Think He's a Conspiracy Theorist|url=https://www.gq.com/story/dinesh-dsouza-hillarys-america-interview|access-date=2021-08-01|website=GQ|language=en-US|archive-date=September 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922195648/https://www.gq.com/story/dinesh-dsouza-hillarys-america-interview|url-status=live}}</ref>

In August 2017, D'Souza suggested that the [[Charlottesville, Virginia|Charlottesville]] [[Unite the Right rally]] had been [[False flag|staged]].<ref name="NYT20180531">{{Cite news|last=Victor|first=Daniel|date=2018-05-31|title=A Look at Dinesh D'Souza, Pardoned by Trump|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/dinesh-dsouza-facts-history.html|access-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726165410/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/dinesh-dsouza-facts-history.html|archive-date=July 26, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the same month, D'Souza tweeted that it would be "interesting to see" Soros "extradited to [[Israel]] & tried for his complicity in Nazi atrocities against Jews", and referred to Soros as "[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s collection boy".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Alterman|first=Eric|date=2017-09-07|title=Soros Slander Reveals Anti-Semitism at the Heart of the Far Right|language=en-US|work=[[The Nation]]|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/soros-slander-reveals-anti-semitism-at-the-heart-of-the-far-right/|access-date=2021-08-01|issn=0027-8378|archive-date=August 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801085417/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/soros-slander-reveals-anti-semitism-at-the-heart-of-the-far-right/|url-status=live}}</ref>

After [[October 2018 United States mail bombing attempts|mail bombing attempts on prominent Democratic politicians]] occurred in October 2018, D'Souza tweeted: "Fake sexual assault victims. Fake refugees. Now fake mail bombs." D'Souza argued that the lack of a cancellation mark on the bomb-containing packages was evidence they were not mailed.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Andrew|first1=Egger|date=26 October 2018|title=Flight of the #FalseFlag Conservatives|language=en|work=[[The Weekly Standard]]|url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-egger/the-arrest-of-bomber-cesar-sayoc-and-the-false-flag-conservatives|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027030119/https://www.weeklystandard.com/andrew-egger/the-arrest-of-bomber-cesar-sayoc-and-the-false-flag-conservatives}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Shane|first1=Croucher|date=25 October 2018|title=Pro-Trump conservatives are peddling a false flag conspiracy about the mail bombs|language=en|work=[[Newsweek]]|url=https://www.newsweek.com/mail-bombs-are-false-flag-distract-hordes-illegal-aliens-claim-conservative-1186730|access-date=27 October 2018|archive-date=October 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027185724/https://www.newsweek.com/mail-bombs-are-false-flag-distract-hordes-illegal-aliens-claim-conservative-1186730|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Opinions expressed on Twitter===
In November 2013, D'Souza received backlash for referring to Obama as "Grown-Up [[Trayvon Martin|Trayvon]]" in a tweet. In response to the backlash, D'Souza posted: "Feigned outrage on the left over me calling Obama 'grown up Trayvon' except that Obama likened himself to Trayvon!"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Delreal|first=Jose|date=November 26, 2013|title=D'Souza: Obama 'grown-up Trayvon'|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/dinesh-dsouza-tweet-grown-up-trayvon-100406|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-23|website=[[Politico]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224221122/http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/dinesh-dsouza-tweet-grown-up-trayvon-100406 |archive-date=December 24, 2016 }}</ref> D'Souza later deleted the initial post.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|last=Kristian|first=Bonnie|date=May 31, 2018|title=7 of Dinesh D'Souza's most shameful moments|url=https://theweek.com/articles/776256/7-dinesh-dsouzas-most-shameful-moments|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-23|website=[[The Week]]|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531210446/http://theweek.com/articles/776256/7-dinesh-dsouzas-most-shameful-moments |archive-date=May 31, 2018 }}</ref>

In February 2015, D'Souza wrote: "You can take the boy out of the [[ghetto]]" in a post criticizing Obama for using a [[selfie stick]].<ref name=":102" /><ref name=":10" /> After the post was criticized as racist, D'Souza posted: "I know Obama wasn't actually raised in a ghetto—I'm using the term metaphorically, to suggest his unpresidential conduct".<ref name=":102" />

In January 2017, after civil rights leader and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] congressman [[John Lewis]] stated that the then-newly elected President [[Donald Trump]] was not a "legitimate president", D'Souza posted: "The left's false narrative inflates minor figures like John Lewis, Democrat, & downplays major ones like [[Frederick Douglass]], Republican".<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Shanley|first=Patrick|date=2017-01-14|title='Hillary's America' Filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza Comes Under Fire Following Controversial Rosa Parks Tweet|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hillarys-america-filmmaker-dinesh-dsouza-comes-under-fire-controversial-rosa-parks-tweet-964417/|access-date=2021-06-20|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|language=en-US|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201621/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/hillarys-america-filmmaker-dinesh-dsouza-comes-under-fire-controversial-rosa-parks-tweet-964417/|url-status=live}}</ref> D'Souza later posted that civil rights activist [[Rosa Parks]]' contributions to the [[civil rights movement]] were "absurdly inflated"<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" /> and described her as an "overrated Democrat".<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":4">{{cite web|last=Kirell|first=Andrew|date=February 21, 2018|title=Dinesh D'Souza Mocked Shooting Survivors. Why Is He Still on the 'National Review' Masthead?|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/dinesh-dsouza-national-review-parkland-shooting-survivors-racist-bigot|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180222043217/https://www.thedailybeast.com/dinesh-dsouza-national-review-parkland-shooting-survivors-racist-bigot|archive-date=February 22, 2018|access-date=June 21, 2021|website=[[The Daily Beast]]}}</ref> D'Souza received criticism for the posts,<ref name=":2" /> with [[Charles C. W. Cooke]] of ''[[National Review]]'' stating: "Not only {{Sic|is this is}} incorrect, it's an attitude that would never be struck about a soldier on, say, Veterans Day ... [E]ven if Parks was a minor player (she wasn't), she'd still deserve to be lionized."<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Cooke|first=Charles C. W.|author-link=Charles C. W. Cooke|date=January 14, 2017|title=Not only is this is incorrect, it's an attitude that would never be struck about a soldier on, say, Veterans Day.|url=https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/820415364387471360|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207191308/https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/820415364387471360|archive-date=December 7, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Cooke|first=Charles C. W.|date=January 14, 2017|title=Thing is, @DineshDSouza, even if Parks was a minor player (she wasn't), she'd still deserve to be lionized.|url=https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/820415928659755013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207191310/https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/820415928659755013|archive-date=December 7, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2021|website=[[Twitter]]}}</ref>

In November 2017, D'Souza mocked Beverly Young Nelson, one of the women who accused [[Roy Moore]] of [[Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations|sexual misconduct]],<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> and posted: "I was lukewarm on Roy Moore until the last-minute smear. Now we must elect him to show that the [[The Washington Post|@washingtonpost]] sleaze attack failed".<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Heer|first=Jeet|date=2017-11-13|title=Roy Moore and the New Republican Civil War|magazine=[[The New Republic]]|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/145785/roy-moore-new-republican-civil-war|access-date=2021-06-20|issn=0028-6583|archive-date=June 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201915/https://newrepublic.com/article/145785/roy-moore-new-republican-civil-war|url-status=live}}</ref> [[David French (political commentator)|David French]], then-senior writer at ''National Review'', posted "What has happened to you?" in response to D'Souza's post about Nelson.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />

In February 2018, D'Souza was criticized for a series of posts which mocked the survivors of the [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]]. In response to a photo of survivors reacting to Florida lawmakers voting down a proposed ban on assault weapons in the aftermath of the shooting, D'Souza posted "worst news since their parents told them to get summer jobs".<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> D'Souza also accused the survivors of "politically-orchestrated grief" and said that their grief "[struck him] as phony and inauthentic".<ref name=":6" /> D'Souza's comments were condemned by both liberal and conservative commentators. Journalist [[Jonathan M. Katz]] wrote: "Let it never be said that Dinesh does not actively root for the death of children."<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|last=Nakamura|first=Reid|date=2018-02-21|title=Even Conservatives Denounce Dinesh D'Souza After He Mocks Parkland School Shooting Survivors|url=https://www.thewrap.com/even-conservatives-denounce-dinesh-dsouza-mocks-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-28|website=[[TheWrap]]|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221025928/https://www.thewrap.com/even-conservatives-denounce-dinesh-dsouza-mocks-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/ |archive-date=February 21, 2018 }}</ref> Others accused D'Souza of "trolling kids".<ref name=":8" /><ref name="inq">{{cite web|last=Feinstein|first=Amy|date=February 21, 2018|title=#CPAC2018 Cancels #DineshDSouza From Their Event After Offensive Comments About #Parkland Teens|url=https://www.inquisitr.com/4795614/cpac-removes-dinesh-dsouza-from-list-of-speakers-for-offensive-comments-about-parkland-shooting-survivors/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221123301/https://www.inquisitr.com/4795614/cpac-removes-dinesh-dsouza-from-list-of-speakers-for-offensive-comments-about-parkland-shooting-survivors/|archive-date=February 21, 2018|access-date=February 8, 2021|website=[[Inquisitr]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Elliot|last=Hannon|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/right-wing-pundit-dinesh-dsouza-taunts-survivors-of-parkland-shooting-for-losing-florida-weapons-ban-vote.html|title=Right-Wing Pundit Taunts Survivors of Parkland Shooting for Losing Weapons-Ban Vote in Florida Legislature|magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|date=February 20, 2018|access-date=February 21, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221025551/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/right-wing-pundit-dinesh-dsouza-taunts-survivors-of-parkland-shooting-for-losing-florida-weapons-ban-vote.html|archive-date=February 21, 2018}}</ref> D'Souza was also denounced by the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]], which removed him from its roster of speakers and stated: "his comments are indefensible".<ref name=":6" /><ref name=inq/> D'Souza subsequently apologized for the initial tweet, saying that it was "aimed at media manipulation" and that he was being "insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy."<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Swanson|first=Ian|date=2018-02-21|title=Dinesh D'Souza apologizes for mocking Parkland shooting survivors after massive backlash|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/374819-dinesh-dsouza-apologizes-for-mocking-parkland-shooting-survivors-after-massive/|access-date=2021-06-22|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en|archive-date=April 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401090748/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/374819-dinesh-dsouza-apologizes-for-mocking-parkland-shooting-survivors-after-massive/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In February 2021, after the [[January 6 United States Capitol attack]] took place, D'Souza suggested that the rioters were little more than "a bunch of rowdy people walking through a hallway".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shepherd|first=Katie|date=February 24, 2021|title=Critics slam Sen. Ron Johnson for unfounded claim that 'fake Trump protesters' led riots: 'It's disgraceful'|language=en-US|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/24/ron-johnson-capitol-riot-disinformation/|access-date=2021-09-26|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> In May, D'Souza posted about the attack: "Does this LOOK like an insurrection? A riot? A coup attempt? If it doesn't walk like a duck or talk like a duck then it probably isn't a duck."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harvey|first=Josephine|date=2021-05-03|title=Right-Wing Pundit's Attempt To Whitewash The Capitol Insurrection Backfires|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dinesh-dsouza-capitol-riot-tweet_n_60908e80e4b02e74d22aad6f|access-date=2021-09-26|website=HuffPost|language=en|archive-date=September 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926065232/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dinesh-dsouza-capitol-riot-tweet_n_60908e80e4b02e74d22aad6f|url-status=live}}</ref>

===FBI===
''[[The New York Times]]'' quoted D'Souza as saying on Twitter: "The [[FBI]] is the largest criminal gang in the country. It's America's version of the [[KGB]] or the Chinese state police."<ref>{{cite news |author=Adam Goldman |author2=Alan Fruer |date=28 December 2022 |title=Republicans Step Up Attacks on F.B.I. as It Investigates Trump |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/fbi-gop-attacks.html |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref>