It’s not uncommon for popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to trigger woketivists before his appearances on college campuses. It’s happened so often that keeping track of the instances where the eruptions take place is nearly impossible.
In most situations where this has happened, what sent leftists into fits of outrage was getting the advance notice that he would be there. Occasionally, his appearances were canceled on “safety” (and safe spaces) grounds. But for the most part, he has been allowed to speak when scheduled, although oftentimes with the usual trigger warnings thrown out there in advance by snowflake administrators who are trying in vain to keep the peace.
But in a somewhat unusual twist this week, it was an unannounced appearance by Shapiro during a podcast convention in Dallas that apparently sent some folks over the edge.
According to “Podcast Movement” convention organizers, they didn’t anticipate that Shapiro, the founder of The Daily Wire, would appear at their event even though TDW was granted booth space because of the popularity of their podcasts. “His presence” from a “brief visit,” as it turned out, caused “harm” to some attendees. As a result, they issued this apology:
They went on to acknowledge the alleged “pain” Shapiro’s brief appearance purportedly caused and how “it will always stick with us,” and noted that they would “more carefully consider” who they allowed in as sponsors at future conventions:
And for those for who the apology and implied promises to exclude WrongThinkers from future events weren’t enough, Podcast Movement assured them that no one from The Daily Wire is scheduled to participate in any of the various panels and that Shapiro remained at a safe distance from most convention goers while he was in the “common space:”
For some reason, they deleted the following tweet from their thread:
“Many in our community are appalled not just by this incident, but by our choice to take money from TDW in the first place. As @amahnke said, ‘this was signed off on by a human.’ Yes. During event planning, the dangerous nature of the company’s messaging was overlooked.”
Naturally, The Daily Wire responded accordingly by posting video snippets of just how supposedly upsetting Shapiro’s appearance was:
Shapiro, of course, weighed in as well:
Libs of TikTok also got in on the action:
As did The Blaze:
Some even mockingly took to marking themselves “safe” from Ben Shapiro:
As dangerous as the exclusionary mindsets of leftists are, you have to laugh at how this absolutely backfired on them. Well done, Daily Wire. Well done.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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