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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProfessional Brown Shirt Milo Yiannopoulos Warns Universities That Donald Trump Is "Watching"
About 1,500 demonstrators gathered on the University of California, Berkeley, campus ahead of Yiannopoulos scheduled visit. A small group of anti-fascist agitators vandalised a segment of the campus, causing police to shut down the event.
The President responded to the events of the evening on Twitter, and appeared to threaten Berkeley a university with a strong history of activist presence with pulling federal funding.
If UC Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS? he wrote.
Yiannopoulos, who publicly outed and harassed a transgender woman at his last public speaking engagement, accused the protesters of trying to quash free speech that did not match their ideals.
American universities should be on notice, he told Business Insider. The president is watching. The days you could silence conservative and libertarian voices on campus and still expect to collect their tax money are coming to an end.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-donald-trump-watching-uc-berkeley-protest-anti-fascist-internet-troll-a7560451.html
I'm not one for violence but will someone punch him in the face? The protestors didn't start the violence, it was your fans, Milo. Sheesh, I hope this is a warning to universities not to hire this scumbag. Oh and fuck you Milo.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)and one of their main goals is to give everything to the rich.
I just hope people put aside "The Bachelor" for just ten minutes even, to educate themselves.
bdamomma
(63,913 posts)bdamomma
(63,913 posts)we have been screaming this fact for months.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mood-swings/201610/trumps-temperament-not-narcissistic-not-normal?collection=1098329
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)his apartment to condo transitions and how he got people to agree to leave, etc. assured me he was a very bad person, indeed.
I then paid a little attention here and there and saw that he had the vocabulary of a 4th grader, the emotions of a 12 yr old and it became clear to me he was very unstable.
The idea he is president is insane. It proves that many Americans are uneducated, very hateful and so on, real scary stuff.
He clearly is barely literate and has no control over himself.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You never know, even Donald Trump might be capable of learning something. Someday.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)EL34x4
(2,003 posts)If Milo showed up to one of his speaking events and there were no protestors outside, no disruptors inside, the people who came to see him would realize that he's kinda whiny and boring without an antagonistic crowd of opposition to wind him up.
As it is, Milo Yiannopolous feeds off this stuff and the energy in turn is feeding his book sales and public notoriety.
The protestors are as much a part of the "Milo Experience" as Yiannopolous is himself. Riots are even better! The crowd in Berkeley got their money's worth, that's for sure.
malaise
(269,134 posts)Fuck the collective pack
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)All imho, of course. He is one of the most malignant narcissists I have ever seen. He does anything for attention -- the safety and well-being of others be damned at long as he gets money and attention, and he has been banned from Twitter and Reddit and other sites for inciting vicious racist and hate-filled attacks against gay persons, actresses, etc. he is one of the most vicious body-shamers on the Internet.
Of course he is the most histrionic crybaby of them all, screaming whenever he's been "wronged." Now the Englishman is threatening American universities -- using one of the most basic playground tactics -- "The biggest bully is on my side so I win!" Fuck off Milo you pathetic worm.
His sad little fans on the alt-right worship him despite his obvious, very hypocritical flaws because they think his English accent gives them credibility and sounds "smahhht" (I wish I were joking but they say this all of the time -- same reason they like the moronic weirdo Sebastian Gorka). He calls Trump something like "Big Papa," and they shout their approval when he does. It is so sad.
Initech
(100,096 posts)And yet he claims its' "free speech". Paying that guy to write a book about free speech is like paying Bill Maher to make a documentary movie about religion.
kacekwl
(7,020 posts)MOON his Orange face (figuratively) in Chicago .
Boomerproud
(7,961 posts)idiotic (and possibly unconstitutional) Exec Orders.
Initech
(100,096 posts)If someone with real credentials challenged that troll to a real debate (I'd love to see someone at UC Berkeley do it), he'd go off stage with his tail between his legs.