University of Miami Faculty Cancel Planned Milo Yiannopoulos Event



The second leg of Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Dangerous Faggot” tour is off to a rocky start, as one school on his roster — the University of Miami — has already cancelled his planned appearance.

University of Miami’s College Republicans had scheduled Milo’s speech for October 3rd at the school’s Bank United Fieldhouse, but a panel of faculty decided that the event created “security concerns” that the school was not prepared to handle. The faculty commission did not outline the concerns in detail.

The cancellation comes just days after Yiannopoulos released a video of his speech at Texas Tech University, taking aim directly at liberal teachers and telling his audience that “the people I really loathe” are college professors.

Milo went on to levy a barrage of criticisms at the elite intelligentsia, accusing them of lying to students and cheating them out of the education for which they paid.

“They are the root cause of this problem, they are so irresponsible that they do not understand the consequences of what they do; they don’t understand what happens to students when they leave these nice leafy communities and go out into the real world believing lies,” Milo said.

“And they knowingly lie to you. They lie to you and they lie about you and it has got to stop; it is unacceptable and I am going to try over the course of this tour to draw attention to some of the professors doing that because you deserve better.”

Texas Tech faculty had signed a petition asking the administration to cancel Milo’s event there. That speech took place without incident.

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Other speeches, however, have not been so quiet, nor is Milo a stranger to a faculty and administration backlash. Back in July, he was banned from future events at DePaul University after students there disrupted his speech and threatened him with bodily harm.

The school claimed Milo had created a “hostile environment,” but had also failed to provide necessary security, even after Milo and his employer, Breitbart News, paid for additional campus officers. DePaul also banned conservative speaker Ben Shapiro. After complaints from students that DePaul was censoring viewpoints, the school established a “diversity speaker” program, but again failed to include conservative panelists.

The fall leg of Milo’s tour still has around 30 stops, including planned speeches at Yale, NYU, Michigan State, Portland State and Columbia University.

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