On Tuesday, in a self-immolating display of narcissistic stupidity, the Daily Californian, which is the student newspaper over at UC Berkeley, ran an op-ed defending the use of violence in shutting down a speech by alt-right popularizer and professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.

The op-ed titled Violence as Self-Defense was a whole series of op-eds, actually, talking about why violence was useful in shutting down political debate.

Nisa Dang, an alumna of the university, she wrote, to people with platforms who decide when a

protest should and should not be violent. You speak from a place of immense privilege,

as I recently wrote in a tirade against this brand of idiocy, asking people to maintain

peaceful dialogue with those who legitimately do not think their lives matter

is a violent act. This actually is kind of evil. The notion that words are violence, when the words

do not explicitly call for violence, that's kind of an excuse to beat the living hell out of anyone

you disagree with. It's also worthwhile noting that Ionopolis for all of his myriad faults,

which I have discussed at length, has never said that individuals' lives don't matter. That is a baseless slur. Illegal immigrant student Juan Prieto, he explained in an op-ed titled, Violence Helped Ensure Safety of Students, quote, We share our stories and provide insight to the reality of the flawed immigration system to out us, is to remove that agency from us. In other words, he's here illegally, he's an illegal

immigrant, so more illegal activity is now necessary to make sure that his original illegal

activity is left alum. Got it. Neil Lawrence, who's a former at Daily Californian columnist,

wrote that the so-called black block, the anti-fascists supposedly, was made up of people

with the most to fight for and the most to lose, and did what the campus should have, except that the vast majority of such protesters actually live in

mommy's basement by statistics, and all the students at UC Berkeley are sponsored by taxpayers

to be there majoring in uselessness. One Desmond Meagley wrote, quote, I put my safety and my

freedom on the line because letting Yiannopoulos speak was more terrifying to me than potential injury or arrest. First off, you shouldn't be scared of other people speaking unless they're violently threatening you. Second, no one worried about protesters putting their own safety on the line. It was beating the hell out of other people we were mostly worried about. Finally, Josh Hardman wrote, quote, the principle of freedom of speech should not be extended to envelop freedom of hate speech, for the unchecked normalization of hate speech will have

real consequences.

If leftists were really, really worried about normalizing Milo, burning things and breaking

windows did more to make him a mainstream victim than anything he's ever said or done.

It gave Yanopolis the ability to don that college Republican outfit on Tucker Carlton and dump all the

anti, all the all right talk

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