Milo Yiannopoulos to have his say at UC Berkeley

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

The show, it appears, will go on.

Even though hundreds of students, faculty and others are demanding that UC Berkeley prohibit the Berkeley College Republicans from hosting right-wing agitator Milo Yiannopoulos on campus Wednesday night, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks says the event will be held as planned.

“The U.S. Constitution prohibits UC Berkeley, as a public institution, from banning expression based on its content or viewpoints, even when those viewpoints are hateful or discriminatory,” Dirks wrote Thursday in a three-page open letter to the campus.

“Mr. Yiannopoulos is a troll and provocateur who uses odious behavior in part to ‘entertain,’ but also to deflect any serious engagement with ideas,” the chancellor wrote. “He has been widely and rightly condemned for engaging in hate speech directed at a wide range of groups and individuals, as well as for disparaging and ridiculing individual audience members, particularly members of the LGBTQ community.”

UC Berkeley students will have someone on campus that doesn't think like them: how shocking.