Milo Yiannopoulos has no sympathy for Ben Shapiro, who like Milo has been banned from DePaul University—instead accusing the fellow conservative speaker of being an “uncool follower.”
The conservative provocateur and Breitbart Tech Editor has resumed his war of words with Shapiro, the political commentator and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire, even though both of them have now been outlawed by over-zealous authorities at the Chicago university.
Shapiro was barred from speaking at a Young Americans for Freedom panel scheduled for the fall by DePaul on the spurious grounds that they were ill-equipped to cope with security challenges of having him as a speaker based on his previous engagements at campuses.
Milo himself was banned from delivering a second speech at DePaul following the disruption of his address to the university’s students in May when protesters from Black Lives Matter and some campus groups stormed the stage and commandeered the microphone.
Even though Milo and his team were confronted by the angry protesters and threatened, DePaul blamed him for inciting them and made him pay the $1,000 in “security costs.”
Milo’s verbal hostilities with Shapiro escalated when Shapiro resigned as editor-at-large of Breitbart in protest over their coverage of the altercation between Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields and Donald Trump’s then-campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. (Both Fields and Lewandowski also subsequently left their positions, Fields voluntarily and Lewandowski not by his choosing.)
Milo was in no mood to offer an olive branch to Shapiro despite them both suffering the same fate at the hands of DePaul. Milo told Heat Street: “It’s sweet that little Benji is following me around the U.S., desperately trying to get banned from the same schools that have banned me. (Setting trends is the cross I bear.)
“But he keeps coming up short, the poor thing! I was banned from DePaul WEEKS ago, dahhhling.”
Milo added that the “cool school” to be barred from is UC Irvine, which suspended its College Republicans club for an entire year simply because they wanted Milo to hold a second event.
He said: “The cool people are getting banned from UC Irvine now—a school which just told me they won’t consider my return to campus when my triumphant and fabulous Dangerous Faggot tour starts again in September.”
Ben Shapiro, not normally at a loss for words, did not get back to Heat Street for a comment.
At the height of their hostilities. Shapiro tweeted to Milo: “It’s a good thing you can’t kill an idea, because I’m pretty sure the syphilis is going to kill the rest of you.” He also referred to Milo’s extensive following as “known to those of us with a job as ‘the people who steal our money and play video games.'”
Milo then replied to Shapiro, “I’m more idea than man. And you can’t kill an idea. Unlike your readers, who will all be dead in 6 months.” He also described him as being “the friendly conservative you can take home to mum and dad. Provided you have amphetamines.”
Unlike Milo, however, Shapiro is still on Twitter.
In the old days, they’d have taken that baby out on a stretcher https://t.co/8njoFG21AI
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 2, 2016
