My Air Horn Proves My Righteousness
No doubt inspired by this defining moment in intellectual discourse, Milo Yiannopoulos is continuing his tour of US campuses. Last night the venue was the University of Minnesota, where Milo was joined by Christina Hoff Sommers, whose work has been mentioned here previously, to have a debate optimistically titled Calm Down: Restoring Common Sense to Feminism. Needless to say, the event was lively, with several short-lived attempts at disruption, including chants of “You’re an asshole,” raised middle fingers, and repeated brandishing of air horns, including one, clutched by a male feminist, that failed to launch and instead emitted a feeble whine, much to the amusement of both speakers and the audience.
I’d imagine full video of the event will materialise later today. Meanwhile, it’s perhaps worth pointing out that while the “social justice” protestors favoured the standard ritual of drowning out dissent with klaxons and repetitive shouted slogans that bordered on incomprehensible, those being protested against articulated a case, invited questions and had a discussion.
Photo of the three wise men by Leila Navidi.
Update: Full video of the event is available here. The Q&A starts around 45:35.
Oh, and filmed outside afterwards, Air Horn Warrior #2 (pictured above) shares his feelings with passers-by.
Whatever the polar opposite of a sense of adventure and wanting to get amongst it all is, they are it.
I feel the same. I fly back and forth to Austin a lot, and notwithstanding that Austin is in Texas it seems to attract more than its fair share of young people who wouldn’t be out of place in, say, Berkeley. And what amazes me when I see them on the plane is that they all act like old people. They all have roller bags. For a weekend getaway they pack as if they’re moving to a new city. Half of them carry these little hemorrhoid cushions that they use as neck braces. They’re easily confused. I lose track of the number of young people whom I’ve seen get into the wrong seat on the plane and then get flummoxed when they’re told they have to move. They can’t go through a 4-hour flight without going to the bathroom at least once, maybe twice. I’ve traveled with my mother, who is rather advanced in years, and she is more sprightly and fun-to-be-around than most of these twenty-somethings that purport to be our future.
Hedgehog, Austin is the shame of Texas. It’s got the double-whammy of being the state capitol AND home of the main campus of the University of Texas (student pop: ~50K). The (possibly unofficial) motto of the city is “Keep Austin Weird”. The place positively *revels* in trying to be Berkeley-on-the-Colorado. The rest of us look at Austin as we’d look at that weird, always-stoned, radical cousin who won’t shut up about the glories of Socialism when he’s not busy sponging off the rest of the family.
Still, the city does serve as a cautionary example and a sink for our oddballs, so it’s not entirely useless:-).
I’m fascinated to know who the protester in the middle of the first picture is.
He was caught on camera outside of the lecture hall behaving in an extraordinarily vicious manner, telling people who disagreed with him to kill themselves and making a motion of putting a gun to his mouth as he did so.
He’s likely a student. Such a student should not be expelled, but I wonder what he thinks about becoming the new poster child for left-wing fascism.
It was an evening of inadvertent symbolism.
“The Minnesota Republic, a conservative, student-run magazine at the U of M, invited Yiannopoulos to campus to debate a faculty member of the gender, women and sexuality studies department on the topic of feminism. When no professors agreed, the Minnesota Republic reached out to Hoff Sommers, whose speeches on college campuses often draw protesters.”
http://www.tommiemedia.com/news/feminism-speakers-draw-protesters-to-university-of-minnesota/
A rare sighting of the big-mouthed Bald Whiner, complete with Authority specs and Power hat!
Well done, looney watchers!