On Tuesday, conservative icon, free speech sentinel, and Daily Wire editor-in-chief Ben Shapiro spoke at George Washington University in Washington D.C., delivering a rousing speech entitled “Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings: A Conservation with Ben Shapiro” to a packed room of students. Hundreds waited outside GW’s Marvin Amphitheatre to get a chance to see Shapiro speak as an endless line of students congregated outside the event room.

Registration line picking up for our SOLD OUT Fred R. Allen Freedom Lecture with @benshapiro at GW! pic.twitter.com/qh9zXszbdq — YAF (@yaf) March 29, 2016

The event was sponsored by the conservative Young America’s Foundation (YAF) as part of the Fred R. Allen Freedom Lecture series. Before the event, YAF posted bulletins outside the amphitheatre quipping about the likely stampede of triggered students that may need intensive therapy and psychiatric counseling after hearing Shapiro make seemingly harmless sonic vibrations with his mouth, i.e. exercise his First Amendment right to speak.

Here's the video of his speech:

WATCH: Ben Shapiro now taking questions from students at GW: https://t.co/BKWjTGHu0z — YAF (@yaf) March 29, 2016

Shapiro began his speech mocking the absurdity of responding to speech with physical violence, a tactic that was deployed by protestors at Shapiro’s Cal State Los Angeles event. “Thank you guys for not wanting to kill me,” he quipped.

Placing the the anti-Free Speech movement into larger historical context, Shapiro argued that the “Left has been doing this since 1960s"; the same people that took over administrative buildings at universities are now administrators promulgating the same sympathy for censorship. However, as Shapiro pointed out, “the revolution always eats its own.” As the New Left, consisting of millennials on college campuses, expand the parameters of authoritarian censorship and social justice warriorship, they’re beginning to purge the Old Left, the folks that established the foundation for “non-violent resistance” as insufficiently combative. As a result, they’ve been the ranks of the old guard, targeting university administrators that refuse to acquiesce to student demands, no matter how irrational.

Laying out the general themes of his speech, Shapiro listed five topics of focus:

Diversity

White privilege

Trigger warnings

Microaggressions

Safe Spaces

Before delving into those seemingly contentious topics he made a vow to the audience: “I’ll make you a deal, I will speak only facts and promise not to care about your feelings.”

For the Left, Shapiro asserted, “The only thing that matters is racial diversity.” Labeling superficial diversity as “television diversity,” Shapiro quipped that the Left cares more about featuring a “gay Native American” in a diversity brochure or politically correct television comedy than what really matters: diversity of thought.

In fact, diversity of thought is a’ “detriment to the Left,” according to Shapiro. He cited the sheer intolerance he experienced at CSULA a few months ago as an anecdote to buttress the claim. Student-protesters and social justice warriors not only inflicted violence on event-goers at the time, but directly threatened Shapiro himself. One professor even remarked that he would be willing to “wrestle” those that ideologically align with Shapiro and plan on attending the speech. The threats of violence “required me to enter with a bevy of armed guards,” stated Shapiro. I left the campus “like I was some sort of South American dictator” in a military style convoy of police motorcycles.

After citing Cal State LA President William Covino’s initial plan to censor Shapiro’s speech, Shapiro then grounded Leftist intolerance of dissenting viewpoints in an intellectual tradition that privileges the unearned moral superiority of victim-classes as opposed to the virtue of rational, policy-driven argumentation.

“Racial diversity does not make the world inherently better,” explained Shapiro. “Virtue matters and skin color doesn’t; if you don’t agree, you’re a racist,” adding that “the Left is racist at this point, all they care about is skin color.”

In a tone of dismay, Shapiro asked his audience, “How did we get so far away from the legacy of Martin Luther King? How did we get to early pre-revelation Malcolm X,” where violence in the advancement “social justice” was considered laudable?

As Shapiro noted, today the “Left only has one principle in life: fairness...fairness of outcome, not opportunity.”" If one person is poor,” said Shapiro, channeling Leftist logic, “somebody must have sinned against” the poor person. As a result, the Left has “to penalize the people at the top” as retribution.

Turning his attention to apparent myth of “white privilege,” Shapiro explained that this “big shadowy system of evil” is a “really seductive idea...because it gives the campus Left a feeling of unearned moral superiority,” adding, “If you just say ‘white privilege’ then magically, it doesn't matter what you do...you are a victim of the system..it’s all about how the system is designed to harm you.” By simply invoking the idea of “white privilege,” one can “blanket problems on other people” without accepting personal responsibility or agency, claimed Shapiro.

All it takes to be considered virtuous is to belong to a member of a victim class, highlighted Shapiro. He mentioned however that the Left offers a glimmer of hope for White heterosexual cisgender men, the most morally depraved creature to ever grace the earth: "Scourge yourself sufficiently!” And “Shout mea culpa” in order to join the “community of the redeemed,” stated Shapiro, in a facetious tone.

Shapiro then extolled the idea of value-based privilege, the only privilege that actually matters, according to the conservative icon. “Maybe some values are better than other values,” said Shapiro. Surprisingly, this remark didn’t prompt any gasps from the audience (in fact, there weren’t any disruptions, minor or major, throughout the speech. GW’s audience was calm, collected, and polite).

Shapiro continued. “Perhaps equality of opportunity only exists as long as ppl are willing to take advantage of those opportunities!” Anticipating opposition, Shapiro preemeptively stated, “point to the racist law, point to the racist policy” and we’ll discuss; otherwise, you don’t have anything meritorious to say.

Rather than institutional racism, Shapiro blamed the breakdown of the nuclear family for aggregate socioeconomic discrepancies between whites and blacks. "The greatest privilege in American society is growing up in a two parent household,” asserted Shapiro. Highlighting a corpus of statistics to back his claim, Shapiro claimed that black children who grow up with fathers and mothers do far better financially than those that don’t. The same holds true for white children. “The greatest single predictor for intergenerational poverty is single motherhood,” noted Shapiro.

If there’s any privilege at all, quipped Shapiro, it’s a “not committing crimes privilege,” adding that “if you don’t commit crimes, you’ll have a better life.”

Focusing on the theme of “values privilege,” Shapiro pointed to the expanding social mobility of Asian Americans to refute claims of white privilege. “Maybe our Asian founders built a system favorable to Asians,” joked Shapiro.

Citing a study from the Brookings Institute, Shapiro stressed, “If you don’t want to be permanently poor in America, do these three simple things:

Graduate high school

Don’t have a baby out of wedlock

Get a job

Shapiro then tackled the farce of trigger warnings. “What happens when white privilege is insufficient to explain discrepancies” of success. You get demands for “feelings” equality, explained Shapiro. This in turns creates a “sterile” and “emotionally stunted environment,” according to Shapiro.

“I’m not responsible for your feelings,” said Shapiro, dismissing the enshrined Leftist tactic of using “feelings” as a red herring to evade rational discourse.

It doesn’t end there, though: trigger warnings then lead to violence. Shapiro explained how. "If you trigger somebody what happens? Microaggression.” The very term itself suggests that words can inflict physical wounds. By labeling words as “microaggressions” the Left can then justify the use of physical violence to suppress speech and demand ideological conformity. “This is the nature of fascism and evil,” asserted Shapiro. It’s an excuse “to call the guys with guns.”

“In ‘microaggression’ culture, you are liberated to perform acts of violence,” emphasized Shapiro. It’s the “end of rational discussion.”

Shapiro concluded by blasting the whimsical world of “safe spaces.”

“Finally: magical safe spaces, they are safe because nobody disagrees with you,” noted Shapiro. It’s a “fascist methodology” used to prevent people from “having an open and honest discussion.”

Turning the idea on its head, Shapiro reasoned, “Safe spaces aren't actually safe,” as they promote the development of emotionally stunted human beings.

“If you want to create unstable society add a dash of unjustified self esteem and a dash of hypersensitivity,” warned Shapiro. As usual, Shapiro backed his statement with data, claiming that 40% of Americans believe that the Federal government should prosecute people for saying offensive things, while a shocking 70% of college students want campus administrators to punish offensive speech.

America is all about freedom to exchange ideas, explained Shapiro. All you need are two “common fundamental values,” basic decency and freedom of speech. Both of these principles have been systematically undermined by the Left, according to Shapiro.

Only when we embrace these basic American principles can we come together and become unified as a country, concluded Shapiro.