Cenk Uygur
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Liberals Need To Stop Blocking Conservative College Speeches
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6:40Now PlayingConservative Ben Shapiro has been banned from speaking at DePaul University, but should he be? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“DePaul University recently informed a campus group that conservative pundit Ben Shapiro would not be permitted to speak on campus.
The vice president of DePaul’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter John Minster announced the decision in a blog post for Shapiro’s Daily Wire Monday. “Given the experiences and security concerns that some other schools have had with Ben Shapiro speaking on their campuses, DePaul cannot agree to allow him to speak on our campus at this time,” the university’s Vice President of Facilities Operations told YAF in an email.
Both Shapiro and YAF hit back in statements provided to Minster. “It’s both pathetic and predictable that the University is happy to grant a veto on speakers to snowflake leftists so long as the leftists threaten violence,” Shapiro said. “This is how free speech dies: when people in power cave to the bullies rather than standing up for basic rights.”
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