Guest Post by Ol’ Remus
A little rhyme of history
Kristallnacht 1938
Crystal Night was two days and nights of terror informally endorsed by Hitler, publicized by Goebbels, enabled by Gauleiters, carried out by paramilitary and civilians, and unopposed by law enforcement. They were, in this sense, spontaneous.
Milo Yiannopoulos, the not altogether wholesome but courageous Breitbart editor and political entrepreneur who styles himself as “Dangerous Faggot”, accepted an invitation from the Berkeley College Republicans to speak at the University of California at Berkeley on the evening of Wednesday, February 1st. This was to be the final venue of his book promotion. Here’s how it played out.
Dozens of UC Berkeley faculty signed a letter 
to Chancellor Dirks on January 3rd demanding Milo Yiannopoulos be prevented from speaking anywhere other than a reconvening of the Nuremberg Trials. They declared Mr. Yiannopoulos a racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, bigoted, cowardly, un-American, intolerant, transphobic, ignorant, misogynist, climate denying, bullying, prejudiced pond scum and probable cannibal.
Associate chancellor Nils Gilman replied with the official position of the administration saying, in effect, a publicly funded university is powerless to prevent even a thoroughly deplorable knuckle-dragging nationalist white supremacist disgusting Nazi literally Hitler from speaking, followed by a further exchange of verbose preening.
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