It seems that Ben Shapiro will be unlikely to put a chokehold on an audience member like the head of Twinks4Trump did in November.
"There are a lot of reasons people seem offended this morning. One is the idea that Trump said some countries are 'bleep-holes,'" Shapiro said on "Fox & Friends." "To be fair to the president, some countries are really crappy."
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Unmentioned in the Hartford Courant article (oh that journalistic balance) is the hundreds of thousands of dollars of public funds spent to ensure a peaceful Shapiro speech at Berkeley, as well as the last-minute attempts by organizers to overpack the venue’s audience, and then there’s their open disappointment, post-event, that more violence didn’t occur.
One hopes that UConn is carefully examining that prior Shapiro speech in detail, particularly since the lecture series and its affiliated groups is getting serious RWNJ funds to foment campus unrest, rather than actually support Constitutional rights.
Shapiro, editor-in-chief of conservative news and commentary site The Daily Wire, was invited to speak by UConn College Republicans, the same student group that brought conservative commentator Lucian Wintrich to the university on Nov. 28 for a talk titled “It Is OK To Be White.”
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UConn is now testing a pre-event review process that President Susan Herbst announced in the wake of Wintrich’s chaotic event.
Shapiro’s speech is part of a national lecture series presented by conservative outreach group The Young America’s Foundation, which says the event is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Jan. 24, in Laurel Hall, a lecture hall with capacity for about 400 people.
The review process involves planning for the appropriate space and security to protect the free speech rights and safety of Shapiro, audience members and others who may be at or near the event, Reitz said.
“The review process is not based on the content of an event; we don’t regulate based on content,” she said. “It’s a purely administrative procedure.”
In September, he was able to peacefully deliver a speech at the University of California at Berkeley even as a crowd of protesters grew to about 1,000 people. Police shut down portions of the campus and made nine arrests during the event.