There are few conservatives who trigger the campus left like Matt Walsh.
The College Fix reports:
Protesters set fire to Matt Walsh flyers ahead of Stanford speech, Eventbrite cancels ticket salesThings are heating up ahead of conservative firebrand Matt Walsh’s speech at Stanford University on March 1.Flyers advertising the campus event were set ablaze by protesters, and event management platform Eventbrite removed the speech’s ticketing page, forcing organizers to set up a new ticketing platform last minute.The incidents are the latest in a string of controversies surrounding Walsh’s pending speech at Stanford, his next campus stop in his collegiate speaking tour focused on criticisms of transgender ideology.The Stanford student senate, which officially opposes the event, allocated funds for Walsh’s appearance to avoid “legal consequences,” but also allocated thousands of dollars to counter protesters as well.Walsh’s speech is co-sponsored by the Stanford College Republicans and Young America’s Foundation.“Remarkably, in a country founded on the principles of free speech and expression, some still think they control what others can see and hear. Fortunately, they’re wrong,” YAF spokesperson Michael McGonigle told The College Fix in an email. “It’s easier to burn posters than show up and engage in a respectful exchange of ideas—perhaps out of fear they may agree with what they hear.”Stanford University’s College Republicans chapter posted Feb. 17 to its Twitter account images depicting posters for Walsh’s event set ablaze.The images are screenshots from the university-focused discussion app Fizz and contain claims the Stanford College Republicans placed posters for the Walsh event over other posters soliciting donations for victims of the earthquake in Turkey.
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