CSULA Hosts 'Healing Space' in Wake of YAF Shapiro Lecture

On May 17, 2016, CSULA President William Covino led a public "healing space" to discuss the aftermath of Ben Shapiro's February YAF lecture. Watch as the group, including Professor Melina Abdullah, conspires to censor conservatives on their campus.

[Timasion]

Okay, does Professor Abdullah even know what a Neo-Nazi or a KKK member believes? At one point did Ben Shapiro express any view that supports those ideal? Is she seriously insane?

Further, they are also seriously discussing preventing people from speaking on campus.

[killertofu]

So the students who almost always violently protest against Ben feel "brutalized"?
Give me a break.

[AnatolyPotapov]

"This is kind of this ongoing conversation about the specificity of anti-blackness and that is what we see with Ben Shapiro."

Wut?

"And I get he's Jewish so it's ironic that we're calling him a neo-Nazi"

Nah, not irony. It's inarticulate rage grabbing and throwing whatever leftist slurs come to mind.

[jmac]

"The specificity of anti-blackness". What?

[danielberkowitz]

This has to be one of the worst schools in the country.

[josiahjohnson]

I completely disagree with these idiots on the notion that Ben is racist, etc. But even if there was a speaker at my campus that I found racist I wouldn't try to silence them. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

[saenfarah]

I can't believe she called him a nazi

[Ronismaximus]

Can someone please define "specificity of anti-blackness." These people are significantly less intelligent than Ben Shapiro or others and yet wrap themselves in pseudo-intellectual bull crap. Just say you don't like him and you don't want him to come, no one buys your bs.

[muskaos]

You know, conspiring to deprive a person of their civil rights, that is a crime.

[WolfsHok]

Pan African studies ? yup, thats going to be useful in the real world
The real fascists are the people in this video deciding who gets on to campus in future

[katienovota]

If he offends you, don't go to his events. I don't agree with everything he says, but these people are being ridiculous.

[maraw]

How do you PHYSICALLY feel brutalized when you didn't even attend the event, you simply PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED people who did

[JeeniusGaming]

If you feel traumatized, brutalized, physically, emitionally and mentally by facts, words and/or a opposing view on things than you should not be able to attend a university at all. In fact you are not very likely to survive in society

[jeffl]

Remember this is adults we are talking about

[lightschunk]

If you can't argue facts and logic, just call Shapiro a Neo KKK member. They're basically just saying shut up if you disagree.

[steve]

the Political Correctness is strong in these folks.

[jessetaylor]

Wasn't this event supposed to be an "emotional healing" for the boatloads of students who were offended my Shapiro's speech? I see like 4 people there. Looks like MANY students were irreparably scarred emotionally.

[floozify]

YOU PHYSICALLY CAN'T BE HURT BY WORDS THOUGH 😂😂😂

[hoscat]

wow These kids these days are sad, this administration is failing horribly.

[derrickpritchard]

Wow, this is what happens when you raise children in an environment where their made to feel like their feelings and happiness is the focus, inflating their worth and minimizing their awareness of empathy for others. If you don't agree with a speaker just don't come to the event. Instead they are debating the effects of a speaker with political views contrary to their own in a space they can choose to avoid. Problem solved.