UC Berkeley is offering counseling for students harmed by conservative speaker..

Source: Washington Examiner | September 8, 2017 | Becket Adams

UC Berkeley is offering counseling for students harmed by conservative speaker Ben Shapiro

Higher education is weird.

Conservative activist and Daily Wire Editor Ben Shapiro is scheduled to deliver an address at the University of California, Berkeley on Sept. 14.

In preparation for his speech, which is being sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation and College Republicans, the university announced this week that it would offer counseling for any student or faculty member who felt threatened by Shapiro’s views.

We’re not making this up.

“We are deeply concerned about the impact some speakers may have on individuals’ sense of safety and belonging,” Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos said in a campus-wide email. “No one should be made to feel threatened or harassed simply because of who they are or for what they believe.”

He added that the campus would provide “support and counseling services for students, staff and faculty.”

Shapiro, who is Jewish, is a veteran of the conservative speaking circuit. Though his talks usually include red-meat one-liners designed to provoke progressives and he’s not one to shy away from staking out the conservative position in the culture wars, he focuses a great deal of his time on First Amendment issues.

Put more simply, he isn’t a lunatic skinhead coming in off some off-beat Internet message board to discuss the dangers of miscegenation or whatever. In fact, Shapiro’s an outspoken and frequent critic of the so-called alt-right, which has made him the target of a seemingly endless barrage of anti-Semitic online harassment.

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