The problem on America s college campuses is not just snowflake college students. Since the 1960's, there have always been lots of young people insistent on quashing free speech and destroying campus freedom. But just as in the 1960s, it actually takes cowardly administrators to make a leftist fascist dream come true. That was the story of DePaul University on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday evening, protesters tried to shut down a lecture I was giving at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and police were told to stand down by the administration. This is the rioter's veto, and it only exists thanks to the cowardice of administrators. Ben Shapiro's full response to the situation at DePaul and the UW in Madison is a must-listen, if you want to know what's going on in America's colleges and universities and why you should be worried about what snowflakes are trying to do to our freedom of speech and freedom of the press on our campuses. You'll have to listen to the full episode to get the full story. You won't want to miss it! Click here for the full video version of this interview with Ben Shapiro on The Ben Shapiro Show. You'll also get access to all of Ben's latest book, "The White Supremacy Project" wherever you get your bookshelf or hardcover edition of The New York Times best selling Hardcover edition. You can also get a free copy of the book on Amazon Prime and Kindle, wherever you buy your hardcover copy of Hardcover or paperback edition. The New Republic or Paperback edition of the Hardcover paperback edition of his new novel, The Testaments. You don't have to be 21 years old or older than that. to get a copy of either of those titles. All you can get them all of these titles, and they're $99.99 and they won't be better than that, they'll be $99, you'll get them for free! You can get all three for 99 bucks, they're going to get it for 99 cents, plus shipping free, they say so you get a carton of $99 or they'll get a maximum of four copies for free, plus they'll say that they'll ship you a two-day shipping and shipping them'll get you two of them for $99 a month, plus two free shipping and they'll tell you they'll send you an ad-free version of the paperback edition will say so, too.
00:00:06.000On Wednesday evening, protesters tried to shut down a lecture I was giving at University of Wisconsin in Madison, and police officers were told to stand down by the administration.
00:00:15.000Now, the problem on America's college campuses is not just the snowflake college students.
00:00:20.000Since the 1960s, there have always been lots of young people insistent on quashing free speech and destroying campus freedom.
00:00:26.000But just as in the 1960s, it actually takes cowardly administrators to make a leftist fascist dream come true.
00:00:34.000Months ago, the alt-right popularizer Milo visited DePaul, where protesters greeted him by taking over the stage and screaming at him and threatening violence.
00:01:12.000Expecting my arrival, they mandated that everybody wear special wristbands and be screened by metal detectors so they could ensure that I didn't end up in the hall.
00:01:20.000When I showed up, I was confronted by about 30 security guards from the university.
00:01:23.000There were five or six local cops present, as well as the sheriff from Cook County, to facilitate an arrest if security decided to move on me.
00:01:31.000And they did openly threaten me with arrest if I attempted to attend Christina's lecture.
00:01:35.000You can see the video at dailywire.com.
00:01:41.000But the administration was so intense on placating protesters who didn't even show up, they banned me personally from entering a campus to give a speech on free speech.
00:01:51.000By the way, that was just the beginning.
00:01:52.000Last night at UW-Madison, student protesters stood up every few minutes and began screaming, safety and shame to disrupt.
00:01:59.000I'll show you the video in just a few minutes.
00:02:07.000Why didn't security clear them out, even when they marched down to the front of the stage and attempted to block me physically from the audience?
00:02:13.000Well, because the administration had told university police not to remove the protesters at all.
00:02:17.000And if they had removed the protesters, they should shut down the entire thing.
00:02:21.000So if the protesters disturb things...
00:02:23.000The police can't remove them, and if they do remove them, they have to remove everybody.
00:02:27.000That would mean 20 protesters could simply stick around, and by doing so, prevent 450 people who'd spent all day waiting from hearing a lecture on free speech.
00:02:35.000As UW student Jordan Zadra said, this mentality gives protesters a license to shut down any speech they don't like.
00:02:41.000This is the rioter's veto, and it only exists thanks to the cowardice of administrators.
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00:04:44.000We found out hours in advance there were going to be a bunch of protest groups.
00:04:47.000The rumor was there were going to be two Black Lives Matter groups and there was also going to be a white supremacist group, which has been about the state of my ear.
00:04:54.000And so they told us all this and they told us they were only assigning three cops, right?
00:04:58.000Three cops for like 500 people and a bunch of protesters.
00:05:06.000And it was designed to be an awful idea.
00:05:09.000As I say, the administration told the cops to stand back and let all of this happen.
00:05:14.000And they said that if I said that people had to be moved out or if there was an attempt to make an arrest, they would have to actually shut down the entire event and empty the hall.
00:05:21.000So get rid of 450 people because 20 people decided to disrupt.
00:05:25.000Well, things didn't go precisely how the protesters wanted.
00:05:28.000They started standing up and shouting and interrupting.
00:05:30.000They walked down to the front of the stage.
00:05:33.000But the crowd was not having any of it, and neither was I. Here is a montage of some of the better moments from last night's lecture at University of Wisconsin at Madison.
00:05:42.000It's time... The folks... In case you hadn't noticed, the folks with the swastikas aren't too nice to my type.
00:05:53.000And by the way, I'm fully aware of this private Facebook page titled, F White Supremacy Interrupting Ben Shapiro.
00:05:58.000Well... With all due respect, F you right back, gang.
00:06:50.000The double flip-off was in response to the fact that all of the protesters, as they were leaving, were shouting, "'F' white supremacy," and flipping off everybody in the hall, including me.
00:07:20.000And because of that, people have reacted to that by saying, screw all you people, we're not going to do anything you want.
00:07:25.000Even if somebody is a bad person, like Trump was during the primaries and the general, even if someone says ridiculous things, you don't have the right to stand on ceremony since you've been saying this stuff about everybody, including Mitt Romney.
00:07:36.000So you keep saying to us, F you, you're white supremacist.
00:07:39.000Well, F you all and we'll elect Trump just to show you.
00:07:42.000Now, do I think that that's the best response?
00:08:49.000But you know, we're just treating these adolescents and these millennials like precious snowflakes.
00:08:55.000I'm just amazed how many texts and emails I'm receiving as one person of all these professors saying you don't have to take the test, you can get college credit if you protest.
00:09:05.000What's the worst thing that can happen to these millennials?
00:09:08.000That Donald Trump will make good on his promise to create 25 million new jobs?
00:09:13.000That he'll get rid of the Obamacare penalty on day one so that you're not forced to buy government-run healthcare?
00:09:20.000Okay, so, look, I think that she's exaggerating the case for all the things that Trump's gonna do for millennials, but, and I understand why millennials don't like Trump, you know, they don't like the language that he uses or the things that he says, but, the precious snowflake idea, we're just gonna shut it down, we can't go to class, we can't participate in normal society, we can't actually take tests, we have to get out of essays, all of this is a bunch of crap, and people react to it as you would expect them to, which is, grow up.
00:09:51.000Cruz was on TV yesterday, and he said that all these protests against Donald Trump, they're showing that hypocrisy is on rank display from the left.
00:09:59.000We have seen hypocrisy on rank display from the left.
00:10:03.000All of the folks who jumped on their high horse and were lecturing to President-elect Trump, you've got to accept the results of the election.
00:10:11.000Look, these are now the idiots that are protesting in the street and laying their bodies down in front of cars and disrupting traffic.
00:10:23.000Democracy is a powerful, powerful way of choosing.
00:10:29.000I think Americans across this country, and I think this is across the line of Republicans, of Democrats, of Independents, of Libertarians, I think Americans are excited about the opportunity to have an administration that actually protects our rights, that brings back jobs.
00:10:46.000Okay, and Cruz is right that, of course, the people did speak and these people are making trouble.
00:10:51.000It's just driving more people into Trump's open arms.
00:10:53.000I mean, as I said yesterday, I, who really do not like Steve Bannon, am now in the position of defending Steve Bannon because of the media overrage.
00:11:00.000I, who did not vote for Donald Trump, am in the position of rooting hard for Donald Trump to stop these kinds of people because, come on, this is ridiculous.
00:12:42.000We're going to defend our people, wherever they are in Mexico or outside of Mexico in the United States.
00:12:49.000We're not going to let this guy to offend them anymore, to offend their dignity and more so to deny the enormous contribution they make to US economy.
00:13:03.000Okay, so you see Vincente Fox saying, we're going to stand up for all the illegal immigrants, and we're going to stand up against Donald Trump.
00:13:08.000And Americans go, why do we want to hear from the former president of Mexico about why you're going to stand up for illegal immigrants in the United States when Mexico is making a lot of money off of remittances from illegal citizens living in the United States?
00:13:23.000By the way, it's also funny to watch Vincente Fox pretend that Donald Trump is the only Bulgarian, when literally right behind him is a portrait of Vincente Fox and his wife.
00:13:32.000I've never actually been in a place where I wanted someone to paint my portrait, but if I did, I probably wouldn't hang it behind me during interviews.
00:13:51.000I mean, Donald Trump spends a lot of the primaries talking about how NATO, the members of NATO weren't paying up and that we would abandon them if they didn't pay their fair share.
00:13:59.000What people are forgetting, by the way, is that when you say to countries, not just in NATO, but across the world, that if you guys don't pay us more money, then we're going to abandon you, China is willing to pay them that money in Southeast Asia in order to make them allies.
00:14:12.000Russia is willing to bribe countries in order to exert influence.
00:14:15.000We're not the only players in this game.
00:14:17.000It's not just a matter of you pay us money or we'll abandon you.
00:14:20.000There are other players who are going to seek to fill that vacuum.
00:14:22.000But Josh Earnest says that supporting our NATO allies is a longstanding tradition.
00:14:26.000He just can't believe that Trump wouldn't do it.
00:14:28.000President Obama has made the case for is the long-standing, strong, bipartisan tradition of strong relations between the United States and our NATO allies.
00:14:38.000And President Obama certainly dedicated a significant portion of his presidency to making sure that that relationship was deepened, that that relationship was strengthened in a way that had enormous and significant
00:15:52.000Trump is, and we'll see what he becomes, but for now, what Trump is, is a giant pulsating middle finger right at the left, right at the heart of the left.
00:17:10.000And when the President-elect said on Sunday that he's still going to try to deport two to three million people, he's talking dragnet, unconstitutional searches and seizures that will violate the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment.
00:17:23.000And what's going to be so intense for us is that we have to document those cases.
00:17:26.000This is not something you can bring a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all the undocumented immigrants.
00:17:31.000You have to go and show the cases and the fact patterns.
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