Conservative columnist, radio host and author Ben Shapiro has fired back at left-wing students who viciously protested his appearance at California State University Los Angeles.
The controversy started earlier in the week when campus president William Covino tried canceling an appearance by Shapiro but to no avail.
“After careful consideration, I have decided that it will be best for our campus community if we reschedule Ben Shapiro’s appearance for a later date, so that we can arrange for him to appear as part of a group of speakers with differing viewpoints on diversity,” he wrote to the chairman of the Young Americans Foundation.
“Such an event will better represent our university’s dedication to the free exchange of ideas and the value of considering multiple viewpoints,” he added.
But the foundation and Shapiro went ahead with the event anyway and the left-wing zealots on campus showed just how tolerant and supportive of free speech they were by forming human chains and using violence to block entrances to the speech.
BREAKING on @FoxBusiness: CSULA allows author @benshapiro to speak h/t @Ajshaps for the coverage + reporting today! pic.twitter.com/c66V252YIV
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) February 25, 2016
When people continued to get into the room where the speech was being delivered, by having police sneak them in through a back door, the unhinged students outside who were having a tantrum pulled the fire alarm.
Shapiro, who had to talk over the alarm, had this harsh critique of the protesters.
“Here’s my message to the bloviating jackasses outside: toughen up you spoiled brat snowflakes if you actually want a better world,” he said.
“We can have an actual conversation if they were up for it,” he continued. “There are mics here, people can ask questions. They could have engaged that way, they chose not to. Maybe they are right about how to solve America’s problems. Maybe I’m right. Maybe someone in the audience is right. We are never going to know because they won’t let the conversation happen.”
He laid out different types of diversity and said that “not all diversity is bad” in his closing remarks.
“Some diversity is terrific,” he said. “The left just ignores the only type of diversity that matters. Until they stop, America will only become a more pinched, bitter divided country, divided by tyrants, like some of those who are standing outside this hall, at the front of your classrooms and in the halls of your administration.”
Social media was lit with pictures, videos and repudiations of the protesters.
**WARNING – STRONG LANGUAGE.**
Please spread this message. pic.twitter.com/Ikb0aDFBb9
— YAF (@yaf) February 25, 2016
Kids pull the fire alarm on @benshapiro. He continues to give his speech over it.
????https://t.co/gTtigJL4Ps— Benny (@bennyjohnson) February 25, 2016
Alert. Conservative speaker @benshapiro now speaking–in the dark. Mob blocked entering students.Pulled fire alarm. https://t.co/Ry2ak4nU1q
— Christina H. Sommers (@CHSommers) February 25, 2016
#BREAKING hundreds of protesters at #CSULA outside @benshapiro speech. @ktla Chris Wolfe says situation intense pic.twitter.com/hD3VITt1Xp
— Tara Wallis (@tarawallis) February 25, 2016
Fuuuck #CSULA pic.twitter.com/nEmzaE21oh
— Jael (@ItsJael_10) February 25, 2016
Intense interactions between protesters and those attempting to attend @benshapiro’s speech https://t.co/7QzsMDPtt7https://t.co/9EFfItddsH
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) February 26, 2016
Barely made it in service elevator b4 protestors blocked back door. Only a few of us made it @benshapiro @yaf @Nero pic.twitter.com/XRufm5Gqky
— Bella Rockafella (@bellarokafella) February 26, 2016
Protesters outside of @csulayaf event with @benshapiro pic.twitter.com/BGOtffCrca
— Bella Rockafella (@bellarokafella) February 26, 2016
.@benshapiro escorted by police from CSULA due to angry protesters https://t.co/7QzsMDPtt7 pic.twitter.com/MF0jsSQwze
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) February 26, 2016
BREAKING: Rising tensions at #csula when @benshapiro gets invited to speak. @ChrisMWolfe reports on @KTLA at 3. pic.twitter.com/mNw8NbZQN7
— Val Gratias (@valeriegratias) February 25, 2016
“We are legitimately stuck in this room right now.” https://t.co/lutoKaAy11
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) February 25, 2016
.@yaf liberal protestors use physical force and shout racist anti semitic threats to intimidate students from hearing Ben #shapiro
— Adam Shapiro (@Ajshaps) February 25, 2016
Even some liberals were outraged by the display.
@yaf @CHSommers I am liberal, but I am greatly opposed to censorship, and what happened there saddens me.
— [ ] (@Pokenar) February 25, 2016
@Pokenar @yaf @CHSommers @benshapiro exactly. I want nothing to do with these freaks
— Mind Body (@freespeechmode) February 25, 2016
Shapiro himself described the experience on social media with some choice words.
The fascist Left https://t.co/Q677snntXP
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 25, 2016
We are safely out. The police informed us they could not guarantee our safety or that of the student attendees if we went into the crowd.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 25, 2016
Students were smuggled in four at a time through the back door; leftists blocked all the entrances. Police were told not to move them.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 25, 2016
We had to be escorted by a full police cordon as well as a motorcade thanks to safety concerns.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 25, 2016
This is America’s future: feckless leftist bureaucrats enabling radical leftist mobs to destroy Constitutional rights. #FightForLiberty
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 25, 2016
Note to campus leftists: Fuck you and fuck your fascism. #FightForLiberty
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 25, 2016
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