Free-speech provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos perpetuates “hate” and “systemic oppression” that “hurts” and “kills” people, according to a student petition aimed at banning the flamethrowing funboy from speaking at DePaul University later this month.
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The online petition — “Stop Hate Speech on DePaul University’s Campus” — uses a lot of big words and even invokes the “Vincentian morals” of the school’s Catholic founders in calling for the cancellation of Milo’s speech, hosted by the College Republicans, and a “more appropriate response” to recent chalk-related terrors on campus.
Milo “mocks social justice and safe spaces, two qualities that are vital to the Vincentian mission of DePaul University,” the petition reads, presumably in earnest. Milo’s very presence on campus would be a “particularly violent” act, and would “bring harm” to students due to the “violently oppressive” things he has said in the past.
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Milo’s statements and ideologies, the petition asserts, are not only “problematic and xenophobic,” but also “outraging” and — just to be clear — “racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, anti-feminist, and Islamaphobic.” Failing to cancel the event would be an “unpardonable action for an institution which claims to stand for and with members of all communities within the human family.”
The petition has 336 signatures at the time of this writing.
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DePaul students recently freaked out after finding pro-Donald Trump message written in chalk around campus. The messages were cleaned up in a matter of hours, but administrators decided to ban chalk, just to be safe.
Milo, an icon of the anti-political correctness crowd, is currently on a speaking tour of American universities, and has left a trail of shouty tears in his wake. Milo is a big fan of Donald Trump, whom he often refers to as “Daddy.”
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