>>BEN SHAPIRO IS A CONSERVATIVE, I DON'T AGREE WITH HIM ON A MOST
ANYTHING, AND HE HAS TAKEN ME ON IN THE PAST, BLESS HIS HEART --
AND SOME OF HIS POSITIONS ARE PERFECTLY NORMAL, THEY ARE
CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS, I UNDERSTAND.
SOME OF THEM ARE
BEYOND THE PALE, IF YOU ASK ME, IN FACT HE HAS CHANGED HIS
POSITIONS ON THE PALESTINIANS, HE THOUGHT AT FIRST THAT THEIR
CLAIMS TO STATEHOOD WERE RIDICULOUS -- I DON'T WANT TO
GET INTO ALL OF HIS PAST POSITIONS, HE BACKTRACKED ON
THAT, BUT I'VE ALSO BACKTRACKED, AND FAIR IS FAIR.
AND HE
RECENTLY LEFT BREITBART WHEN THEY MISHANDLED THE MICHELLE
FIELDS SITUATION.
HE HAS HIS MOMENTS OF PRINCIPLE.
AND THERE
WERE SOME ACTS OF JOURNALISM ON HIS PART THAT WERE NOT ACTS OF
JOURNALISM, WHEN HE WENT TO WHAT I WOULD CALL SMEAR CHUCK HAGEL
ON HIS CONNECTION TO HAMAS, WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE -- I
TELL YOU THIS IS BACKGROUND BECAUSE I'M ABOUT TO DEFEND HIM.
HE WAS APPARENTLY INVITED TO SPEAK AT DePAUL AND THAT
INVITATION HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.
HE WAS ASKED TO SPEAK BY A YOUNG
AMERICANS FOR FREEDOM CHAPTER THERE, BUT THEN DePAUL'S
ADMINISTRATORS DECIDED HE COULD NOT SPEAK.
IN FACT, HERE IS THE
CHAPTER VICE CHAIRMAN SAYING --
>>THAT IS UNFORTUNATE.
I THINK THAT IS THE WRONG DECISION.
LET
ME GIVE YOU HIS QUOTES ON THIS, HE MAKES HIMSELF A LITTLE HARD
TO DEFEND AT TIMES, BUT WE WILL DO IT ANYWAY.
HE SAYS --
>>SNOWFLAKE LEFTISTS -- I KNOW.
IS THAT CLEVER?
I DON'T KNOW WHY
THAT IS CLEVER, I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT REALLY MEANS.
ANYWAY, ALL
THESE GUYS HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT LITTLE INSULTS FOR
PEOPLE WHO ARE PROGRESSIVE AND THINK THEY ARE CUTE --
NONETHELESS, I'M WITH HIM ON THIS ISSUE.
YOU HAVE TO LET HIM
SPEAK.
I KNOW SOME OF THE ARGUMENT ARE STUDENT FUNDS ARE
USED AND WE DON'T WANT OUR FUNDS GOING TO CONSERVATIVES WHO HAVE
THESE OBNOXIOUS OPINIONS -- HE'S GOT RIGHT WING POSITIONS UP AND
DOWN THE LINE AND THERE ARE MANY THINGS I DISAGREE WITH HIM ON.
I
KNOW, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE ALL INVITE SPEAKERS, AND IF WE
START NITPICKING EACH OTHER'S SPEAKERS, I DON'T WANT YOU TO
SPEND MONEY ON THIS OR THAT, THEN WE WILL NEVER HAVE ANY
SPEAKERS.
OR WE WILL ONLY HAVE THE SPEAKERS THAT ARE
PREAPPROVED -- I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN THAT WORLD.
AND GUYS, IF
YOU THINK HE'S AN INSANE RIGHT-WINGER, THEN YOU GOT
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
THIS IS THE SAME THING RADICAL MUSLIMS
DO SOMETIMES -- DON'T LET THEM SPEAK.
DO NOT INSULT THE PROPHET
MOHAMMED.
IF YOU ARE SO SURE THE PROPHET MOHAMMED IS RIGHT, WHAT
DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
I WILL GIVE YOU ONE MORE QUOTE FROM
SHAPIRO, HE SAID --
>>THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF TRUTH TO THAT, THAT IS WHY I'M
DEFENDING HIM HERE AND DISAGREEING WITH DePAUL.
DON'T
GET ME WRONG, I KNOW THERE ARE TROLLS IN THE WORLD, I DON'T
THINK SHAPIRO IS ONE OF THEM.
I THINK HE IS EARNESTLY TRYING TO
PRESENT HIS CONSERVATIVE POSITION, SOMETIMES HE DOES IT
IN AN OBNOXIOUS WAY -- TO BE FAIR, I SOMETIMES PRESENT THE
PROGRESSIVE POSITION IN AN OBNOXIOUS WAY.
HE IS DIFFERENT
FROM THE TROLLS, I THINK HE IS A LEGITIMATE CONSERVATIVE, SOME OF
THE ACTORS ON THAT SIDE DO IT FOR THE SPOTLIGHT, THEY DON'T
HAVE THOSE POSITIONS, THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT POLITICS AT ALL.
EVEN
THOSE GUYS, THOUGH, I WOULD ALLOW THEM TO SPEAK.
BECAUSE ONE
OF THOSE TROLLS WAS ALSO BLOCKED FROM SPEAKING AT DePAUL BECAUSE
THERE WAS SIGNIFICANT PROTEST LAST TIME HE SPOKE.
BUT IF YOU
BLOCK THE SHAPIROS OF THE WORLD, THEY GET LEGITIMATELY UPSET
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO SHARE THEIR OPINIONS.
IF YOU BLOCK THE
TROLLS OF THE WORLD, THEY ARE EXCITED, NEARLY ECSTATIC.
THEY
ARE LIKE, MORE ATTENTION, AND I GET TO PLAY THE VICTIM!
THERE IS
NOTHING A TROLL LIKES BETTER THAN PLAIN THE VICTIM.
AND DON'T
EVEN GO TO PROTEST THEM.
IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THEM, AND YOU
ROUGHLY KNOW WHAT THEIR POSITION IS, OR YOU KNOW THEY ARE ACTORS
AND DON'T EVEN HAVE A POSITION -- AND I REALLY FEEL SAD FOR THE
FANS OF THE TROLLS, BECAUSE THOSE TROLLS ARE LIKE WWE
CHARACTERS AND YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW, YOU THINK IT IS REAL.
OH MY GOD, HE HIT HIM WITH A CHAIR, IS HE HURT?
HIS HE GOING
TO BE OKAY?
SUPER SAD.
BUT FOR THE PEOPLE PROTESTING THEM, ALSO
REALIZE THEY ARE ACTORS, AND DON'T GIVE THEM THAT KIND OF
SPOTLIGHT THEY ARE CRAVING.
DON'T BOTHER PROTESTING THOSE
GUYS.
SO IF ONE OF THESE TROLL RIGHT-WINGERS GOES TO SPEAK AT
YOUR CAMPUS, DON'T DO ANYTHING.
LET THEM SPEAK -- ABOUT 12 DORKS
WILL SHOW UP, AND THAT WILL MAKE THEM REALLY UPSET.
THEY WILL GO
HOME CRYING -- ONLY 12 DORKS IN BOWTIES SHOWED UP, I DIDN'T GET
ANY OF THE SPOTLIGHT.
AGAIN, BACK TO SHAPIRO -- I'M TELLING
YOU, I WOULD EVEN LET THE TROLLS SPEAK BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO
NITPICK WHAT OTHER GROUPS ARE ALLOWED TO BRING ON AS SPEAKERS,
WHO THEY ARE ALLOWED TO BRING ON OR NOT.
IF IT IS A LEGITIMATE
GROUP AND THEY'VE INVITED SOMEBODY, LET THEM SPEAK, THERE
IS NO HARM IN IT.
AND FOR SHAPIRO, GREAT, SHARE YOUR
CONSERVATIVE OPINIONS THAT ARE TOTALLY WRONG, THAT ARE EASY TO
DEFEAT.
THERE IS NO HARM IN THAT AT ALL, JUST LET HIM GO.
AND
COLLEGE IS A PLACE WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO EXCHANGE IDEAS.
THERE IS NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT IN THAT CASE, NOTHING TO FEAR --
IF A COUPLE OF YOUR DOLLARS WENT TO A GUY YOU REALLY DON'T LIKE,
DON'T WORRY -- A BUNCH OF THEIR DOLLARS WENT TO A WHOLE BUNCH OF
PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE EITHER WHEN YOU BROUGHT THEM ON AS
SPEAKERS, AND THAT IS HOW WE HAVE AN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS.