On Wednesday night, Milo Yianopoulos stopped by University of California at Berkeley to do his schick.

Leftist protesters, joined by a large contingent of anarchist riot promptly gave him everything he could ever hope for.

A riot, complete with violent destruction of property, large objects set on fire, and Yonopolis supporters beaten in the streets.

It was a vicious and disgusting display of just how fascist, many on the campus left, had become. A few thoughts. First, the campus left has been engaging in this sort of fascism for at least a year. Not every campus leftist group engages in this sort of violence. I spoke at Berkeley last year, no problem. But a shocking number of campuses have experienced this sort of fascist anti-free speech garbage. Yonopolis has been at the receiving end of these sorts of receptions at campuses dotting the country. And the riots aren't really about Yonopolis. They're about the very concept of allowing someone on campus who the left considers radical. Last February, I was met with a near riot at Cal State, Los Angeles. At Penn State, students tried to break through locked doors to disrupt one of my speeches. I was banned from DePaul in the aftermath of a student disruption against the Annapolis and told I would be arrested if I set foot on campus. Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal was disinvited by Virginia Tech before finally being allowed on campus. So this stuff is happening all the time. The academic left, second of all, has prepared the way for a lot of this campus fascism. Why is all this

happening right now? Well, because the campus left has built up a pseudo-intellectual bulwark

around such fascism. They've told students they deserve safe spaces, areas in which their

ideas are not challenged in any way. They forwarded the culture of microaggressions,

which urges students to see any speech they find offensive as a form of

aggression to be countered by other aggression. Here's NYU Professor Jonathan Haidt on the phenomenon.

He says, the recent collegiate trend of uncovering allegedly racist, sexist, classist,

or otherwise discriminatory microaggressions doesn't incidentally teach students to focus on small

or accidental slights. Its purpose is to get students to focus on them and then relabel the people who have

made such remarks as aggressors.

As a professor at Cal State, L.A. posted on his door before my speech there last year,

quote, the best response to microaggression is macroaggression.

This line of thought actually encourages evil.

As Professor Roy Baummeister writes in evil inside human

violence and cruelty, hypersensitive people who often think their pride is assaulted are potentially

dangerous. Even when a neutral observer would conclude no serious provocation occurred, it is still

important to recognize that in the perpetrator's view, he or she was merely responding to an attack.

Colleges churn out and reward these oversensitive people. Third, riding against speakers you consider radical, it helps those speakers, you idiots. Okay, Yenopolis' schstick, it relies on opposition. The clips from his speeches are all about triggering members of the campus left, which, by the way, is the easiest thing in the world to do. He relishes this publicity. Like or dislike Milo, and I am certainly no fan, if you know anything that I've said about him, his provocateur schstick only works if he provokes a response way worse than that which he's engaged in. When the left shuts down his speeches, when they riot, when they engage in actual violence, when they pepper spray those who come to hear him and hit them with metal poles, all they're doing is legitimizing Yiannopoulos in the public eye and making him the victim and selling him lots of books and making him lots of money. President Trump has weighed in via Twitter. He says that he will withdraw federal funds from UC Berkeley if they can't maintain free speech principles. That's actually appropriate. Spray painting kill Trump on walls,

smashing ATMs, assaulting people. That is not appropriate behavior in any civilized society.

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