If these people are so marginalized, as they like to believe, then how did they ever make it into college? The poor? The marginalized? Give me a break. They are anti-American communists who despise democracy. I’m a gay man, and I refuse to be manipulated by these bi-polar lunatics. Thank you!

Up front, I’m a liberal, and I completely disagree with Milo’s ideals and agree that his speech is hateful.
However, there’s a difference between protesting and having your voice be heard, and actually storming the stage and getting an event shut down just because you disagree with it.
Free speech is free speech, and just because you don’t like what someone is saying doesn’t mean that your right to free speech is more important than theirs.
Honestly I get so annoyed with liberals and SJWs these days. Like all this nitpicking and protesting stupid shit that gets out of control. Like it’s fine to stand up for what you belive and disagree with other people, but there’s a right and a wrong way to do it.

DePaul just torpedo’d any chance they had of getting any donation money from this alumni.

You have a lot of growing up to do, kid.

“If that free speech is hateful, those who protest it are covered by the same constitution which allows free and hateful speech.”

Yes, congratulations, you understand what free speech is and how it allows you to do what you do.
However, you and many others in your ideology are using your free speech to violate the free speech of others. Your protest of Milo’s event was not a protest at all. In fact, it was suppression of his expression, silencing him and denying him his freedom.

This is not free speech on your part. Rather, it’s quite the opposite. If you had stood outside of the venue and protested there, allowing the event to take place and for Milo to say his piece, you would be exercising your freedom of speech and assembly. But instead you exercised authoritarian silencing of your ideological opposition. Those who do not echo must not be allowed to speak.

For someone who claims to understand that gay people are marginalized, you sure had no issue with marginalizing Milo, a gay man.
I suppose gays who don’t agree with you don’t count, then.

As a final note,
“[…] the poor and marginalized are rising up, we refuse to take this hatred lying down, we are not asking for the permission of an oppressor, we are shutting down anything that proves toxic to our communities.”
I’m loving this bit. Despite your troubled background you have made something of yourself, to the point that you have a chance at state office, and yet you believe that you can be so easily lumped in with “the oppressed.”

Tell me Ed, if you are so oppressed, how did you get to where you are right now?

Well, it looks like I found the tolerance limits of the DePaulia staff. Was it the fact that I’m a combat veteran? That Bill Ayers’ buddies had planned to kill me and my friends with a bomb? Maybe that I would have offended most of the faculty at DePaul or my message would have hurt Mr. Ward’s sensitive feelings? Readers will never know. What’s unfortunate is that Ward and the SJWs today are vilifying millions of men and women who have worked hard their entire lives to try and do right by their communities and their families. Men and women in hourly labor jobs, just trying to make ends meet. Yes, that makes me angry.
And just for the record, my spouse was not born in the US, I’m a Libertarian, a union shop steward (joined my first union in 1978) and have four children and fourteen grandchildren, ten of whom are biracial, three are in college. I’ll match my record of working to benefit humanity against any of the DePaul protestors and/or the DePaulia staff. Any time.

Keep up the good work! You’re going to get Trump elected with your fascist behavior. We need him more then ever with disgraces like you and the DePaul administration multiplying like rats.

This was godawful writing. Aren’t you a godly man? This disrespect to your speech has offended the Lord. You didn’t even proofread it. Awful tautology of the word ‘protest’ in the first 3 sentences. ‘Ableism’ is a non-existent word and you managed to misspell it.

Second paragraph, first sentence. What do you even mean. ‘Criticism of the protests’ as in the criticism we raise towards you, that you basically look like fools and use your perceived victimization as a way of bullying others? Or the ‘protests’ criticism’, meaning the criticism you have of modern society? Either way, the next word is ‘captures’ not ‘capture’.

Next sentence. ‘Contrary to unpopular beliefs’. Those are called popular beliefs. The figure of speech you’re looking for here is ‘contrary to popular beliefs’, making your beliefs unpopular, hence your reason to protest and bring.

I could go on. But there’s no use. It’s said that the quality of our thought is limited by the quality of our language and it’s clear your quality is very low. But what else can you expect when in western societies like America and the west in general (here’s where I clarify I’m not American and English is my second language), ethnic minorities are never corrected when they speak objectively wrong and their words make no sense. It’s like when black people want to say “not all x are y” and say “all x are not y”. This article is a clear example of the ramblings of a stupid man being taken seriously simply because he’s black. This is the definition of unearned privilege. He also went on stage and threatened a gay man with authorities standing by. This is again the definition of privilege.

Silencing people with whom you disagree isn’t “protest”, Mr. Ward; it’s intolerant fascism. What an ignorant man-child crybully.

Sorry young man. You are on the wrong side of this. The actions you performed are akin to fascism. You are trampling on the most precious piece of written word in the world to date. The 1st amendment. You seem to lack the fundamental understanding of its purpose. The very amendment that allowed you to be a jerk, you want to fracture with nebulous vast sweeping assumptions. Shame on you. What you and your partner did do however, was reinforce stereotypes. You acted as a child would. And the drivel you espoused above canonizes that perfectly. The very best thing you can do is allow speech to happen. All speech. The most vile speech imaginable. Take a look at Westboro Baptist and the actions they took. You would stop them by force. People that understand the values and principles of the 1st amendment want it to happen. They are despicable. And I’d fight to ensure they can be idiots. Just like I would for you young man. Don’t you see? The first amendment allows the world to quickly filter the good from the bad. Trust the people to see it. And stop being a bully.

totally right. it was a peaceful event and quite positive as well.

Does Ed Ward truly believe that shutting down free speech in such an aggressive manner won’t incite hate? He’s an optimist.

Like Milo says “Sunlight is the best disenfectant”.

Try to not use violence next time. The way the university has handled this is a disgrace to academic discussion. You should be ashamed of how you acted, and your fellow “protestors”. I’ve seen young children act with more respect.

So you protest because you don’t have anything better to do….. get a job.

Yawn. People are sick of the self-righteous millennial “protests.” Destroying someone else’s platform is how people who have nothing to say exercise their right to “free speech”

“If that free speech is hateful, those who protest it are covered by the same constitution which allows free and hateful speech.”

That protest is indeed protected as free speech. But only in public space, e.g. outside on the street. Not inside the room that was specifically rented for a private event. There you have as much right to free speech as people have in your private living room – as much as the domestic authority allows for.

You can be kicked out of someone else’s private speech event for being disruptive just like you can kick a guest out of your house if you don’t like what he is saying.
The kicked out person is free to continue to protest on the street then.