For the righties who claim conservative voices aren't heard on college campuses. Milo Yiannopolous spoke at WVU and embarrassed all of you.
"Milo Yiannopoulos has for months now been a source of controversy on campuses. The Breitbart editor goes beyond criticizing his targets -- liberals, feminists, minority and gay student groups (although he is gay). He mocks them with language that leads many to feel personally attacked and demeaned...
West Virginia University didn't bar him. When the university's Republican student group invited Yiannopoulos to speak, which he did on Thursday, the university did not equivocate on his right to speak. But when Yiannopoulos singled out a professor with personal, mocking criticism, students -- with the support of President E. Gordon Gee -- took to social media to defend the professor...
During his talk, Yiannopoulos posted a photo of Brewster on a screen with the label "Fat Faggot." (It should be noted that Yiannopoulos refers to his campus speaking tour as the "dangerous faggot tour," and he may view "fat" as a greater insult than what is normally a slur for gay people, but he throws around the antigay slur with a different tone than when he is talking about his tour.)
In his talk, Yiannopoulos started by denigrating Brewster's discipline, using rhetoric many conservatives use about some areas of study. "Professor Brewster teaches sociology, which comes in just above gender studies in my rankings of 'burger-flipping majors' -- but not very far above," he said. "I hear he’s fond of bullying conservative students, who often find themselves compelled to leave his class midlecture. I hear he’s hosting a, and I quote, 'multicultural LGBTQ event' at this very second."
Yiannopoulos went on to say that he had heard that Brewster discourages conservative students from expressing their views or punishes them with poor grades. Brewster opted not to answer Yiannopoulos, but his students have said that there are differences of opinion aired in class all the time. What particularly upset many at West Virginia was the way Yiannopoulos kept repeating personal insults while discussing things such as Brewster's Twitter biography and photograph (seen above).
https://www.insidehighered.com/news...versial-speaker-appear-and-answers-his-attack
"Milo Yiannopoulos has for months now been a source of controversy on campuses. The Breitbart editor goes beyond criticizing his targets -- liberals, feminists, minority and gay student groups (although he is gay). He mocks them with language that leads many to feel personally attacked and demeaned...
West Virginia University didn't bar him. When the university's Republican student group invited Yiannopoulos to speak, which he did on Thursday, the university did not equivocate on his right to speak. But when Yiannopoulos singled out a professor with personal, mocking criticism, students -- with the support of President E. Gordon Gee -- took to social media to defend the professor...
During his talk, Yiannopoulos posted a photo of Brewster on a screen with the label "Fat Faggot." (It should be noted that Yiannopoulos refers to his campus speaking tour as the "dangerous faggot tour," and he may view "fat" as a greater insult than what is normally a slur for gay people, but he throws around the antigay slur with a different tone than when he is talking about his tour.)
In his talk, Yiannopoulos started by denigrating Brewster's discipline, using rhetoric many conservatives use about some areas of study. "Professor Brewster teaches sociology, which comes in just above gender studies in my rankings of 'burger-flipping majors' -- but not very far above," he said. "I hear he’s fond of bullying conservative students, who often find themselves compelled to leave his class midlecture. I hear he’s hosting a, and I quote, 'multicultural LGBTQ event' at this very second."
Yiannopoulos went on to say that he had heard that Brewster discourages conservative students from expressing their views or punishes them with poor grades. Brewster opted not to answer Yiannopoulos, but his students have said that there are differences of opinion aired in class all the time. What particularly upset many at West Virginia was the way Yiannopoulos kept repeating personal insults while discussing things such as Brewster's Twitter biography and photograph (seen above).
https://www.insidehighered.com/news...versial-speaker-appear-and-answers-his-attack
