“Our basic thing is to send a loud and clear message that this is not acceptable on our campus,” said Hoku Jeffrey, a Berkeley graduate and national organizer for By Any Means Necessary, a group that took part in previous demonstrations that turned violent. “We will not tolerate anti-immigrant bigotry or bigotry of any kind, which is the only thing she’s here to do.”
On Sean Hannity’s show on Thursday on Fox News, Ms. Coulter, never one to let a pot go unstirred, mocked her liberal protesters as “beta males” engaging in “Rodney King riots.” And Mr. Yiannopoulos, seizing the moment, said Friday on Facebook that he would hold a “Milo’s Free Speech Week” on campus this year — “whether university administrators and violent far-left antifa thugs like it or not.”
Meanwhile, Johnny Benitez of Orange County, in Southern California, said he was organizing a group of conservatives to show up in Berkeley. He was part of a group that showed up last weekend for demonstrations that ultimately led to 20 arrests.
“I don’t really have a connection to Berkeley,” said Mr. Benitez, 28. “The reason we go there is to support people who feel that their First Amendment rights are being infringed, our fellow conservatives in the city of Berkeley. The people I’m mostly organizing are coming from six hours away.”
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