University of California college Republican's absolutely decimate the black lives matter movement, and their supporters on campus

In order to promote and engage in a much-needed dialogue on the #BlackLivesMatter movement, College Republicans at University of California, Santa Barbara seek to bring conservative author, columnist, and radio host Ben Shapiro. We believe that it is both productive and well within our rights as tuition-paying students to host a speaker who offers a different perspective on this pertinent topic, especially given the fact that the average UCSB student is exposed daily to predominantly leftist views.



On Monday, October 31st, UCSB College Republicans requested $5,000 in funding from Associated Students at the Finance & Business Committee (ASF&B) meeting. ASF&B approved the funding request, with 7 voting in favor of the motion and 5 abstaining. However, requests are not official until approved by both ASF&B and the Senate.



Upon discovering that our funding request had been approved by ASF&B, the UCSB Black Student Union organized an event entitled “Senate BLACKout,” taking place at the Senate meeting on Wednesday, November 2nd, in order to protest ASF&B’s vote to fund us as well as to demand that the Senate nullify ASF&B’s decision to fund the event.



Many of our members attended the Senate meeting so that we might defend ASF&B’s decision to fund our event against those who sought to have the funding revoked on the basis that the proposed event’s anti-“black-lives-matter” message is “offensive” and “triggering”---that it “marginalizes students of color” and is “unfair to the students [the senators] claim to represent”---and other similar asinine arguments.