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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 127 - The Media's Pathetic Self-Obsession

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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David French (who?) could jump in, Donald Trump vs. the media is the media's favorite thing, and Ben praises Snoop Dogg. Yes, really. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Last week, California State University, Los Angeles, held a healing space to provide a safe forum for students and professors to unleash their feelings about my campus speech back in February, sponsored by Young America's Foundation.

0:13.6

That speech, as you may recall, was originally canceled by the university president William Kavino.

0:18.4

After I decided to go to the campus anyway, hundreds of screaming

0:20.8

students blocked the doorways and they assaulted prospective speechgoers and pulled the fire alarm.

0:25.4

Professors that egged on the protesters. One even threatened student organizers.

0:29.4

I was forced to enter through a back door. I exited, surrounded by a full phalanx of armed and

0:33.4

uniformed officers, thanks to the near riotous conditions outside. So, naturally, the professors and

0:38.6

students who caused the commotion had some hurt feelings. At their little get-together, Kavino announced

0:43.6

he would, quote, never have anybody like Ben Shapiro to campus. Kavino fretted that very tragically

0:48.6

and unfortunately, somebody like me could show up on campus again. Meanwhile, Professor

0:53.3

Melina Abdullah, who is the chair of the university's useless Pan-African Studies Department, said I had advocated, quote, anti-blackness. She called me a neo-Nazi. After realizing it was sort of awkward to label an Orthodox Jew a neo-Nazi, she then shifted her language slightly, and she said that I was a Neo-KKK member. She said students came to her feeling traumatized by a speech

1:12.0

they definitely didn't hear and feeling brutalized physically, emotionally, and mentally by me.

1:17.6

I spent the bulk of my speech talking about how racial diversity was irrelevant. Diversity

1:22.2

of viewpoint mattered. This was enough to drive chaos and insanity at the school for months.

1:26.1

Apparently, quoting Martin Luther King, which I did, makes me a neo-KKKKK member. Meanwhile, David Duke, who's the former KKK Grand Wizard, has labeled me an enemy of the KKK. I've been hit daily on Twitter by certain all-right white supremacist Donald Trump supporters, labeling me a cuck, which means a weak-kneed leftist who wants to watch his wife have sex with the black man. Prominent Breitbart News columnist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos tweeted a picture of a black child at me upon my announcement of the birth of my second child a boy. The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer routinely attacks me. Some of Trump's alt-right fans tweeted that I, along with my wife and two kids, should be sent to the gas chambers, those joyful pranksters, as Milo likes to call them.

2:03.9

This is the toxicity of our crazy politics. The campus left, enthused by people like Bernie Sanders, and sought by Hillary Clinton, call anybody who disagree a neo-KKK member.

2:14.6

The KKK, meanwhile, calls anybody who won't support Donald Trump a Kock.

2:17.9

This is what happens when basic American principles are no longer taught. This is what happens when

2:22.2

grievance politics replace the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

2:26.9

of the United States. If you speak in favor of free speech, it makes you a pariah for those

2:31.3

who would control speech in order to build their own magical utopia.

2:40.5

So, what happens to people like me who really hate the KKK and think the Black Lives Matter movement is terrible?

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