Yiannopoulos causes campus controversy with lecture

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'Milo Yiannopoulos, British technology journalist and entrepreneur, spoke in Laurie Auditorium last Sunday on microaggressions. The lecture was organized by Tigers for Liberty. In a response to a March 22 discussion regarding microaggressions organized by the Trinity Progressives, the Black Student Union and the Trinity Diversity Connection.

Manfred Wendt, the president of Tigers for Liberty, said the event was meant to encourage free speech on campus.

“We want Trinity to be a free marketplace of ideas, where contentious topics can be discussed intellectually and civilly. While not everyone at Trinity or everyone in Tigers for Liberty may agree with what the speaker has to say— it is important that we address these ideas head on in the pursuit of truth,” Wendt said.

In his lecture, Yiannopoulos said that microaggressions are good news for Americans.

“The idea is that you could be racist without even knowing it. It’s completely bullocks. Microaggressions [are] good news. The fact that the left has had to come up with microaggressions—these tiny things that you do [that] might be sending signals that you’re racist, sexist or homophobic—this a symbol that racism, sexism and homophobia [are] gone,” Yiannopoulos said. “If you have to look that hard for it, then it ain’t around anymore.”'