As an alumnus of both the University of California, Berkeley and the student group hosting Milo Yiannopoulos there, I’ve had some conflicting feelings about the haze of confusion surrounding “Berkeley Free Speech Week.” After his planned speech in February was thwarted by far-left violence, Milo has been hyping a return to the iconic home of the Free Speech Movement for months.

Although Milo and I don’t see eye-to-eye on most issues, defending free speech makes for some unlikely bedfellows. The American Civil Liberties Union, for example, has famously defended the American Nazi Party, the Ku Klux Klan, the Nation of Islam, and many other extremist groups. As the English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall famously wrote, in a quote popularly misattributed to Voltaire, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”