>>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INVITATION HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN.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.
