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It would be Berkeley, wouldn’t it. Can this really have been the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s? A few weeks ago the Berkeley College Republicans invited alt-right Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannapoulos to speak at the Student Union there. The administration, to its credit, had no objections. But violence by thuggish protesters erupted and the talk was cancelled.

Nobody should be playing the victim … Everyone should just get on with achieving everything that they can in their lives

The highly controversial Yiannopoulos takes cancellations in stride, though, knowing the attendant publicity makes it a win for him either way. Milo’s enormous cultural effect is confirmed by FIRE’s data graph’s startlingly high spike in protest on the left since Milo began his “Dangerous Faggot” speaking tour of U.S. campuses last year.

Milo is a one-man gay right-wing militia on a take-no-prisoners mission to destroy political correctness and victim culture (“Nobody should be playing the victim … Everyone should just get on with achieving everything that they can in their lives.”) And the matériel he brings to the fight is formidable.

First of all, pardon my lookism, but he is gorgeous: tall, slim, with sculpted features and wonderful hair – impossibly blond yesterday, streaked today, brunette tomorrow. He is also unpredictable. He might turn up at a campus talk in a sombrero, shaking maracas, trailed by a mariachi band, or wearing the most beautiful Savile Row suit you’ve ever seen. He shocks for shock’s sake (“Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?”). Nearly all of what he says is deliberately offensive to some identity group or other. Watch a few YouTube videos of his talks and debates, and you’ll get the drift.