It seems like longer to us, but it was only February when thugs smashed windows, set fires, and rioted in the streets around the University of California, Berkeley, in protest of a speech by Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos that didn’t even happen.
Since then, schools have become even stingier when it comes to finding speaking venues for conservatives. Berkeley canceled an April appearance by Ann Coulter because it couldn’t find — get this — a “safe space” in which to host her talk.
Fast forward to September 2017. That would seem to be far enough into the future for organizers at UC Berkeley to find a room in which Ben Shapiro could give a speech on behalf of the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and the Berkeley College Republicans, but according to YAF’s Spencer Brown, the school just can’t find a suitable space, despite “extensive efforts.”
Berkeley denied the students’ request for a venue for 9/14 despite what administrators call “extensive efforts.” https://t.co/LQ9JJjPLFa
— YAF (@yaf) July 19, 2017
Using the same bogus excuse they did with Ann Coulter, Berkeley bas blocked @benshapiro from speaking because they "can't find a venue"
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 19, 2017
Unbelievable cowardice from UC-Berkley. https://t.co/lYnu7bHS08
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) July 19, 2017
Cowards. Liars. Leftists. https://t.co/VTDazRFwUG
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 19, 2017
Yeah, this isn't going to work. #YAF https://t.co/Uq5Vn1ZIF6
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 19, 2017
i knew they would pull this…
— ??Jaime (@calm501) July 19, 2017
Tell them you're camping in one of the trees to save the planet. Venue solved
— Kim Becker (@CICKB) July 19, 2017
Funny how much smaller schools have managed to host little tent cities where celebs can drop by while students protest the lack of diversity in the curriculum, but when a conservative requests one open auditorium …
Wasn't the event planned for September? A world class university can't find a building you can speak in two months from now? Seems legit.
— Kayla (@VixenRogue) July 19, 2017
UC-Berkeley is 1,232 acres. And they can't find a single room, two months in advance, for @benshapiro to give a speech? https://t.co/ukggHBku3F
— Amy Lutz (@amylutz4) July 19, 2017
Thursday night. The football stadium is probably available.
— John MacArthur (@jwmac57) July 19, 2017
Sorry man, the transgender volleyball team is using the gym that night
— Boston joe (@ramadiroach) July 19, 2017
All the auditoriums and classrooms are reserved for safe spaces. I get it. They're fragile
— Gavin (@SnarkActual) July 19, 2017
Get a permit and do it on the street if you have to
— conservative-warrior (@reaganwarriors) July 19, 2017
Hover over Berkley's campus in a hot air balloon with a megaphone
— Ray Veck (@German_Pisan215) July 19, 2017
Can we go like 5 feet off the campus and have it in a "public place"
— Alex Kasmere (@AlexKasmere) July 19, 2017
More likely that they don't have it in the budget to fund more riots. Or the cleanup.
— Infuriated Infidel! (@MeanOldSoldier) July 19, 2017
For an institution that touts safe spaces, they sure do suck at providing one when the threat of violence is real
— TCabby (@sangrigio) July 19, 2017
Here’s a secret we’ll share with Berkeley: all the clowns wearing black kerchiefs over their faces and carrying pepper spray and creating a huge security risk? They didn’t come with Ben; those are your people. Make ’em take off their masks if you don’t believe us.
As a Cal grad I find this appalling. @UCBerkeley should be ashamed of folding to emotional arguments rather than demanding true scholarship
— Ethan.M.Rogers (@EthanMRogers) July 19, 2017
Long game: Find a judge to declare SJWism a religion, ban its being promoted in the classrooms of public colleges.
— Texaner in London (@texanerinlondon) July 19, 2017
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Related:
Oh good grief! Ben Shapiro BANNED from speaking at DePaul University; topic is campus tolerance (seriously)https://t.co/HdJLo6a2Cb
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 15, 2016
