Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos spoke at Rutgers University on Tuesday and triggered dozens of feminists and #BlackLivesMatter activists who failed to censor the controversial writer.
Yiannopoulos caused an outrage in the middle of his speech when he called out social justice warriors that demanded safe spaces and trigger warnings.
According to the Rutger’s paper The Daily Targum, about 50 protestors started chanting “Black Lives Matter,” while Yiannopoulos supporters screamed back “Trump! Trump! Trump!” Several female protestors covered their faces with fake blood and walked out of the event, while about 40 of the protestors stayed for the entire speech.
Protestors claimed Yiannopoulos was blurring the lines between “hate speech” and free speech.
“Freedom of speech is a responsibility,” said Nyuma Waggeh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior and one of the protestors. “You should use your privilege to be responsible for one another. Be conscious of what you speak, because a lot of people could take your message wrong.”
Obviously she doesn’t realize that free speech is a right, not a privilege, and that the freedom of speech trumps all speech even if it’s objectionable.
“We must, unlike the Left, engage in the other side of the argument,” Yiannopoulos said about the protestors. “I noticed that when they were asked questions, they left the room.”
Yiannopoulos continued with his speech where he compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the KKK, said that rape culture and the gender wage gap doesn’t exist, and how lesbianism isn’t real.
Watch a clip of the protests below:
