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Tonight as colleges become socalled safe spaces for students are they also becoming unsafe for ideas . More and more conservative lecturers are being met with picket lines, angry mobs, even monthly cough cocktails. We followed one prominent rightwing speaker to a university in utah where he tells us he believes Political Correctness is spiraling out of control. Heres my nightline coanchor dan harris. United, well never be defeated reporter equal lunch ccolle have become an angry reflection of a divided country. On this night police and protesters out in force at the university of utah. All because of this babyfaced 33yearold father of two. Lets be real about this, look at me. I mean, do i look like a physical threat to anybody . Do i seem like a physical threat to anybody . Last time i was in a fight, i was 14 years old, two years younger than everybody else and getting my ass kicked. Reporter ben shapiro, editorinchief of the conservative daily wire and host of a popular podcast downloaded millions of times a week. Hes at the center of a nationwide debate about whether conservative voices are being stifle td by protesters on American College campuses. Just today at the university of florida, tensions flaring. During an event featuring the White Nationalist richard spencer. In february at the university of berkeley, former breitbart commentator Milo Yiannopoulos shut down after protesters threw rocks a and molotov cocktails. Last month when ben shapiro spoke at the university of berkeley local authorities spent over 500,000 on security. Its amazing they had to essentially lock that place down for you. And the headlines were nuts. Headlines like, berkeley braces for shapiro visit. Really . Was i the one smashing atms . Reporter three hours before hes supposed to take the stage at 7 00 here in utah, shapiro says there are reports of possible violence. Im hearing rumors there may be some people who try to bring weapons which would be ridiculous and awful. I dont want to be killed at my lectures. Reporter a fellow conservative podcast host claims he captured this undercover individual video of selfdescribed antifa members talking about knifes and their car where they allegedly had guns. He says this speaks to liberal hysteria on machine campuses. Your view is this is Political Correctness run amok . The furthest extension of Political Correctness. When you say something, its not me disagreeing with you, it is me destroying your identity as a human being in a way that is akin to violence. Let me read from the statement that the folks who want did shut you down put out. Ben shapiro has openly called transgender people mentally ill, betrays the great gay rights movement, a conspiracy to root out godbased institutions, recent recently defended conversion therapy theres a bunch of things that are not true. Im not aware of any defending conversion therapy as effective, but i dont see evidence it is effective. I see gender dysphoria as a disorder. Thats not an insult to people suffering psychological disorders. You are not doing service to people suffering from a mental disorder to humor them that their mental disorder is reflected in reality. Reporter it is important to note the American Psychological association does not define being transgender as mental illness. Gender dysphoria applies when a person suffers physical distress. Its a natural phenomenon, theyre committing suicide because people are mistreatmenting them. Im not for mistreatment but i dont think me suggesting youre not a woman is mistreatment of you. Reporter whether or not you agree with shapiro, whether or not you think hes engaged in hate speech, heres little doubt his speech is protected by the first amendment. He wont let a jewish guy come to a campus and say what he wants to say, peer wooer in america respect thats ridiculous. Reporter professor david rigobi, who teaches a class onfully come of expression here, tells us Many College Students today do not understand that speech is protected unless it directly incites violence. This is a public institution. Its a government entity. They have to guarantee the free speech rights of everyone, including shapiro. Reporter we find the leader of that group that has vowed to shut tonights event down who makes a startling admission. I dont think he should speak. But that couldnt doesnt comport with the first amendment. I dont care. You dont care . I dont care. Why not . I dont think thats a relevant document right now. Reporter the constitution is not a relevant document . This thinking may help explain the increasingly violent protests against conservative speakers on campus. By shortly after 7 00 p. M. Here at the university of utah, ben shapiro is backstage ready to go on after his Security Team sneaked him into the building. One irony is that while hes hated by many on the left, hes also hated by the selfdescribed altright. Ive been very, very outspoken against the altright, ive said the altright is a garbage movement composed of garbage ideas that has nothing to do with constitutional conservatism. Reporter shapiro fiercely critical of donald trump. He publicly quit his last job at Breitbart News when a female colleague was allegedly manhandled by Trump Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and shapiro thought breitbart failed to have her back. I quit under very public circumstances. Because breitbart had been turning itself into a trump propaganda arm and the altright for then candidate trump. What kind of blowback have you received . Aside from the 7,400odd antisemitic tweets i received, Death Threats in the mail, Death Threats on my phone reporter which is why shapiro finds it hard to believe protesters call him a white supremacist. Shapiro go to hell that is the stupidest thing ive ever heard. I keep hearing this. Wondering, was the yarmulke that gave it away . Reporter hes interested in politics for as long as he can remember. I found a paper at 10 or 11 talking about the clinton impeachment. Reporter shapiro went on to start his nationally syndicated column at age 17. His parents had to sign the contract for him. He graduated ucla at age 20, put out two books by age 21, and graduated harvard law at age 23. As shapiro takes the stage in utah, it immediately becomes clear that all of his time on elite campuses apparently did little to temper his conservative views. In particular what he calls americas culture of victimization. On stage he inserts himself into some of the most heated debates in our divided country. From Police Shootings to the nfl kneeling controversy. Is racism real . Yeah, of course racism is real. But i dont think institutional racism is necessarily real. So yes, of course there are racists. Racist cops who shoot black guys for no reason should go to jail and throw away the key. But this idea put out there by broad statements about america being discriminatory, racist country, i dont know how that helps anything. I dont think its actually true. Isnt that to ignore our history . Its inarguable that slavery existed, and after that jim crow. You want to talk about jim crow and slavery, of course. The question is what is the remedy now . To blame people who are living today who had nothing to do with jim crow and slavery . I didnt hold slays, did you . Reporter as shapiro holds forth inside the lecture hall, outside scuffles break out in the crowd. The hierarchy of victimhood goes if youre lgbt and q, we suggest you are at the very top of the victimhood hierarchy. Then black folks. Then hispanic folks. Then women. Then jews. Then asians. And then way down at the bottom, white straight males. Does it ever strike you as somewhat off to be in a room kind of making light of victim culture and having this kind of hearty laughter, looking around and seeing the vast majority of the faces are white . No, because i said the exact same thing in front of faces that are not white. I know, but its not that you change your message, just that it seems to resonate mostly with white people. I dont think that thats true. I think that i wish i were invited to more crowds that were more racially diverse that would be great. Reporter no one got hurt but two protesters got arrested. Even as a man caught in the white hot center of the madness that is american politics today, he says he is optimistic. Were at such a divided and venomous time in this country, youre in the middle of it, do you have any optimism it will get better any time soon . Yeah, i think theres going to be a backlash. Theres going to be a strong backlash for people who are tired of it. And want to stand up for basic rights that we can all agree on. Reporter for nightline, this is dan harris in salt lake city, utah. Next i gotta have faith inside the private life of the George Michael. The sign history always kept the faith with his fans. I gotta have faith faith faith afi sure had a lot on my mind. My 30year marriage. My 3month old business. Plus. What if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i made a point to talk to my doctor. He told me about eliquis. Eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. Not only does eliquis treat dvt and pe blood clots. 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Youre the leader of the gang, unless you say yes, the rest of the girls wont. Reporter the story of how five supermodels came to lip synch the hit told in the documentary George Michael freedom. You look like youre singing it, can you act like youre singing along to it . When i had just learned it. Oh my god, lets just have fun, and thats what it ended up being, fun. Reporter chock full of interviews with celebrities who knew and loved him. Hes gods gift to the world. Reporter the film covers his life and career, made before his untimely death from Natural Causes last christmas at age 53. Im aware of the need for persona. And my actual persona, im not really prepared to give. Reporter the notoriously private star codirected with his lifelong friend and songwriter david austin. Would he have been promoting this movie . No. He made the film, narrated the film, thats about as far as he got. He was one person that he just you know, he just didnt celebrity wasnt for him. Reporter the project was intended to be released alongside the 25year anniversary reissue of georges second solo album listen without prejudice which he refused to remote. The track freedom 90 from that album a symbolic line in the sand for george. With the burning of his jacket and the significance of it. It had a lot to say. I got the impression, that chapters closed, im done, im done being a public figure pop star, i just want to make music. Reporter his exit from the limelight would lead to a highly publicized battle with record label sony. George michael is today asking a High Court Judge to declare his recording contract null and void. I think he was very honest about his court case with sony, which he had never spoken about before. Theres a massive reveal it in, he says he wished hed never done it, wished hed never gone to court with sony in the first place. I will never know if sony and i would have ended up in court had anselmo not become ill. Reporter Anselmo Felipe pa, one of georges few true loves. Learning months into their relationship that he was hiv positive. In front of his 160,000 people, there was this guy over on the righthand side of the stage that fixed me with this look. It was so cute. I was so distracted by him. I stayed away from that end of the stage for a while. The moment i looked at him, i got a feeling that told me i was going to know him very well and that he was going to be a part of my life. Somebody to reporter his 1992 performance of queens somebody to love sung to honor lead singer freddy mercury, who died from aidsrelated complications, also a tribute to anselmo. Anselmo was the first time i think i really loved someone selflessly. Reporter anselmo passed away the following year, 1993. And georges beloved mother would follow in 1997. How important was his pain to his success . He says in the film that, you know, back in the day, the grief that he felt having lost his mother and having lost his partner, i think he felt that he would like for example, older was an album that followed listen without prejudice. He openly says that without having felt that kind of pain, he would never have been able to have made an album like older. Dont you think im looking older reporter the showtime documentary looks at the questions of race and music raised by georges work after his debut album faith George Michael reporter won in soul and r b categories at the American Music awards. Ive been a lover of soul music since i was a kid. He picked up these two awards in categories that were traditionally for black artists. And the problem with our industry, they do love to pigeonhole people. He uniquely achieved breaking into the r b soul charts that few white performers ever got. I think there was an attempt to kind of steal black heritage in what im doing, all thats happening is im trying to make good music. Reporter that iconic album will be reissued today. For a new generation of fans, his enduring legacy. In a rare interview with abc news in 2008, George Michael shared his view that fame and beauty are fleeting, keenly aware his time here would someday end. I dont inhale any of that its dangerous. What i really am is a writer. And, you know i never thought looks are much to begin with, but whatever they are, theyll fade. My brain will go. Eventually its all gone but the songs are still there. Reporter songs like his classic ballad father figure. I will be the one who loves you till the end of time reporter for nightline, im t. J. Holmes in new york. George michael freedom premieres on showtime this saturday. And next, the surprise message mylie cyrus sent to one of her fans injured in the las vegas shooting. 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