Protesters smear fake blood on faces at blogger Milo Yiannopoulos' Rutgers talk

[Bill the Cat]

Source: http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2016/02/rutgers_students_protest_milo_yiannopoulos_speech.html

When Milo Yiannopoulos, a controversial conservative British writer for the Breitbart News Network, spoke at Rutgers University on Tuesday about how college campuses have become too hypersensitive and politically correct, students responded by smearing their faces with fake blood in protest.

To repudiate what he sees as an increasingly reactive educational environment, where microagressions are getting in the way of substantive debate, Yiannopoulos told students that they should be going to college to "interrogate new ideas" and "experiment with dangerous ideas, new forms of knowledge, to meet new people, to introduce ourselves to new experiences, and to learn more about the world around us."

"Up against that mission," he said, according to a video of the event and witnesses there, "up against what ought to be the central purpose of higher education, what ought to be the reason you're all here, is a culture of safe spaces and trigger warnings which seeks to insulate people from anything that might traumatize or upset them."

In the video, he continued, "Of course they are not really traumatized or upset; they are just upset that someone disagrees with them. In my view, anybody who asks for a trigger warning or a safe space, should be immediately expelled."

The audience loudly applauded his statement.

At which point, a woman yells from off camera, "This man represents hatred!" They also started chanting "Black lives matter"

The video then pans to one side of the auditorium where two students appear to smear fake blood on their faces.

The two students eventually exited the auditorium inside Scott Hall as several other students who also smeared fake blood on their faces stood and continued the fervor.

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Pinheads...

[Cow Poke]

Yet another example of the loony left believing in freedom of speech only if you agree with them.

[Psychic Missile]

That guy is a buffoon and I should hope that students are upset when a place of learning gives a platform to buffoons.

[Cow Poke]

That guy is a buffoon and I should hope that students are upset when a place of learning gives a platform to buffoons.

The "places of learning" foster this crap.

[seer]

Liberal idiots...

[Bill the Cat]

That guy is a buffoon and I should hope that students are upset when a place of learning gives a platform to buffoons.

They hire liberal professors all the time...

[Jedidiah]

That guy is a buffoon and I should hope that students are upset when a place of learning gives a platform to buffoons.

So you are part of the "Cry Baby Generation," I should have known.

[Rational Gaze]

A gay journalist giving a talk about freedom of speech at a university campus? Oh no, how terrifying.

[The Thinker]

Source: http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2016/02/rutgers_students_protest_milo_yiannopoulos_speech.html

When Milo Yiannopoulos, a controversial conservative British writer for the Breitbart News Network, spoke at Rutgers University on Tuesday about how college campuses have become too hypersensitive and politically correct, students responded by smearing their faces with fake blood in protest.

To repudiate what he sees as an increasingly reactive educational environment, where microagressions are getting in the way of substantive debate, Yiannopoulos told students that they should be going to college to "interrogate new ideas" and "experiment with dangerous ideas, new forms of knowledge, to meet new people, to introduce ourselves to new experiences, and to learn more about the world around us."

"Up against that mission," he said, according to a video of the event and witnesses there, "up against what ought to be the central purpose of higher education, what ought to be the reason you're all here, is a culture of safe spaces and trigger warnings which seeks to insulate people from anything that might traumatize or upset them."

In the video, he continued, "Of course they are not really traumatized or upset; they are just upset that someone disagrees with them. In my view, anybody who asks for a trigger warning or a safe space, should be immediately expelled."

The audience loudly applauded his statement.

At which point, a woman yells from off camera, "This man represents hatred!" They also started chanting "Black lives matter"

The video then pans to one side of the auditorium where two students appear to smear fake blood on their faces.

The two students eventually exited the auditorium inside Scott Hall as several other students who also smeared fake blood on their faces stood and continued the fervor.

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Pinheads...

I agree that political correction has gone too far. There is a growing liberal backlash against it that I support.

[klaus54]

I agree that political correction has gone too far. There is a growing liberal backlash against it that I support.

Example of liberal backlash against political correction (sic)?

[lilpixieofterror]

That guy is a buffoon and I should hope that students are upset when a place of learning gives a platform to buffoons.

Interesting because I always thought colleges were a place to be introduced to new ideas and not be suck in an echo chamber of your own thoughts.

[Psychic Missile]

The "places of learning" foster this crap.

It's true that some liberals attach themselves to certain causes while only having a shallow understanding, resulting in extremism, but the solution is better education of those causes, not to bring in buffoons to talk about how veterans or rape victims with PTSD shouldn't have reasonable accommodations like anyone else with a disability.

[Psychic Missile]

Interesting because I always thought colleges were a place to be introduced to new ideas and not be suck in an echo chamber of your own thoughts.

There's a middle ground between echo chamber and open mic night.

[Sparko]

There's a middle ground between echo chamber and open mic night.

You don't seem to have a problem expressing your own thoughts. Why do you have a problem with others doing the same?

[The Thinker]

Example of liberal backlash against political correction (sic)?

Do you ever pay attention to Bill Maher?