BUFFALO, N.Y. — Less than a year ago, a white man from out of town drove into Buffalo before posting a white supremacist screed online that denounced, among other things, “transgenderism.” He then opened fire at a local grocery store, killing 10 Black Buffalonians.
On Thursday evening, another white man from out of town, who recently stated that “transgenderism” should “be eradicated from public life entirely,” stepped up to a lectern at the University at Buffalo. He was grinning.
“Oh, what a great warm welcome in Buffalo,” Michael Knowles told a crowd of a couple of hundred people, mostly fans, inside the Slee Hall auditorium. “Thank you for having me.”
He was immediately interrupted. “Trans lives matter!” yelled two protesters near the front of the audience. “Trans lives matter!” As the chants continued, an indignant middle-aged woman in the front row stood up and demanded school security remove the protesters. Security eventually obliged, even dragging one protester from their seat as they chanted, “Fuck fascists!”
“That’s not a word fit for a lady,” Knowles said to laughs. “That’s not the way ladies should speak. And we’re going to be talking about how ladies should speak here tonight.” The title of his speech was “How Radical Feminism Destroys Women and Everything Else.”
Eventually, after calling the two protesters “screaming banshee maniacs,” Knowles launched into his speech — repeating his call for “transgenderism” to be “eradicated.”
Knowles, a prominent right-wing commentator for The Daily Wire, had been invited by the school’s chapter of the Young America’s Foundation, a…
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