Milo Yiannopoulos has called out the “lame threats” of opponents attempting to derail his college speaking tour, following another eventful week of protest against his alt-right agenda.
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The U.S.-based Brit conservative provocateur was threatened by a Facebook message from a user named “Rich Chavez,” who promised to take action against him “in the name of Elliot Rogers”during his “Feminism is Cancer” event on Thursday night at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
Elliot Rodgers, who had dropped out of Santa Barbara City College, killed six students and himself in a brutal campus attack near UCSB in May 2014,. “Chavez,” apparently a pseudonym, wrote last night on Facebook that he would follow Rodgers’s lead: “the course of action I take tonight will be in honor of elliot rodgers [sic] … i’m sorry mom i love you.”
Campus police “looked into the threat” but the “Feminism is Cancer” panel, starring Yiannopoulos, went ahead as planned. UCSB students were unfazed, as 200 of them packed the lecture hall.
Earlier in the week, a crowd of angry #BlackLivesMatter protesters at DePaul University confronted Milo during a speech there, causing the event to be cut short. Amid the heightened tensions at the school surrounding Milo’s visit, one student on Thursday claimed to have found what looked like “a noose” near DePaul’s campus.
Milo told Heat Street on Friday that he would not be intimidated by aggressive threats. He said: “History teaches us that when such things appear on campus, there is a 99% likelihood the person responsible is a progressive hoaxer.
“I’m not phased by their pathetic, slimy tactics. Nor am I worried by the lame ‘threats’ they phone in and then report themselves in an attempt to have my events canceled.”
He added: “Listen up, social justice warriors: No one is buying what you’re selling any more. Stop lying, stop hoaxing, stop the fraudulent ‘hate crimes’ and bogus allegations, stop the name-calling. Return to evidence-based logic, reason and the truth and maybe—maybe—we’ll let you back in.”
At the Santa Barbara event, Milo flouted his potential attackers by entering on a throne, carried by students, to the tune of “America, Fuck Yeah” before launching into a speech that maligned celebs including Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer (“I’m convinced Lena Dunham is a conspiracy. Is there anyone who actually likes Lena Dunham?” So why is she on the cover of everything, like Amy f***** Schumer?” he said).
During the question-and-answer segment of the panel, Milo challenged students and faculty—and, in particular, a “psychology of gender” professor—to “debunk the five most heinous feminist myths,” calling genders studies classes “awful rot.”
DePaul campus police are also investigating another “racially charged” incident—the words “Trump 2016” and “F*** Mexico” scrawled on a sidewalk in a “paint-like substance that was difficult to remove.”