The hysteria surrounding Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro’s “Say No To Campus Thuggery” event at University of California Berkeley this evening is reaching fever pitch. While law enforcement encloses the campus in concrete barriers and the school shuts down parts of the university and prepares safe spaces, activists have grabbed their chalk and covered the campus with protests.
As seen in a group of photos posted online (below), activists repeat several of the common declarations from the social justice/Antifa left.
“Free speech is not hate speech,” declares one chalk message, providing the left’s rationale for shutting down speech they don’t like.
“We don’t want your racist hate,” reads another, resorting to the SJWs’ standard unfounded accusation of racism.
“Immigrants are welcome here,” one message reads in another non sequitur.
“F**k Carol Christ,” says another, referencing Berkeley’s first ever female chancellor who has become a target of the left for simply reaffirming Berkeley’s once vaunted commitment to protecting free speech.
The protests come amid extreme security measures implemented by the school, including closure of multiple buildings and parking lots and the provision safe spaces and counseling for students, faculty and staff.
The Berkeley Police Department is also implementing its own unusually drastic steps, including providing campus “walking escorts” and alternative routes to protect people from protester violence and setting up concrete barriers all over the area to try to contain Antifa.
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via Daily Wire
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