Milo Yiannopoulos was invited to speak at NYU on October 31 in order to discuss the politics of Halloween.
However, on October 30, the following Statement from NYU Spokesman John Beckman, Sr. VP for Public Affairs, was released to the public:
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today requested that NYU postpone and reschedule the classroom appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos for public safety reasons in light of nearby the Halloween parades and NYPD assessments of risk. Given the importance of close coordination between NYU’s Public Safety personnel and the NYPD to ensuring safety, the University agreed to the postponement.
The University first learned of Professor Rectenwald’s invitation to Mr. Yiannopoulos from news reports on Sunday. NYU Public Safety officials began working on safety planning with police officials Monday.
In response, Milo made the following declaration on his Facebook page:
“As of today, I am without question the most censored man in America. The entire city of New York is terrified of one gay man stepping out of line and calling out the Left as the intolerant, censorious crybabies they are. And they just proved it—by censoring me again. I couldn’t ask for more conclusive proof: The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, today demanded my talk at NYU be canceled (“rescheduled” in their euphemistic language) and the President of NYU has complied. So. It’s not happening. I’ll post my talk online tomorrow instead. RIP, First Amendment. They’re not even pretending any more.”
Milo did live stream his planned discussion, beginning the video wearing his Halloween costume dressed as Christine Blasey Ford. He then gave a talk on the history of purpose of Halloween interspersed with politically incorrect jokes. He criticized the new policing of Halloween: “Anyway, today I’m going to tell you why Halloween is awesome, and why you should save it from the scolds and nannies who are coming to take it away, telling you your costumes are ‘problematic,’ ‘racist,’ and, if they swallowed a dictionary or have attended a gender studies class, ‘toxic expressions of cishet white patriarchal oppression.’”
Milo resurrected the character of “Dr. Christine” and made an appearance in Palm Beach, Florida at David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend held November 15th – 18th. Other speakers included Governor Mike Huckabee, Brian Kilmeade, Katie Hopkins, Stanley Kurtz, J. Christian Adams, Bill Gertz, Sebastian Gorka, Joe diGenova, Dan Bongino, Kevin Jackson, Daniel Greenfield, Robert Spencer and David Horowitz.
The newly released video, reminiscent of a Comedy Central Celebrity roast, may be found here: