UC Berkeley will be offering counseling to students and faculty who get traumatized by Ben Shapiro’s upcoming speech

UC Berkeley will be offering counseling to students and faculty who get traumatized by Ben Shapiro’s upcoming speech.

I’m not making that up.

This is the webpage where UC Berkeley mentions the counseling:

http://news.berkeley.edu/campus-update-on-ben-shapiro-event/

And this is the internet archive of that webpage, in case the original ever gets taken down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170910054148/http://news.berkeley.edu/campus-update-on-ben-shapiro-event/

It says:

Ben Shapiro visit: Campus details logistics and resources

Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017

In advance of talk show host Ben Shapiro’s appearance next Thursday, Sept. 14, at UC Berkeley…

Support and counseling services for students, staff and faculty

We are deeply concerned about the impact some speakers may have on individuals’ sense of safety and belonging. No one should be made to feel threatened or harassed simply because of who they are or for what they believe. For that reason, the following support services are being offered and encouraged:

Student support services

Employee (faculty and staff) support services

In case you’re wondering what all the hoopla is about, here is a recent speech that Shapiro gave at UC Santa Barbara. Skip to 8:22 for the beginning of his speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cPirip5a3A

I don’t know if that speech is typical of what Shapiro talks about, but it was the first one that showed up when I did this search at YouTube, where many of his other speeches can be viewed:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ben+shapiro+speech