Milo Yannopoulos (Photo via Facebook)

Milo Yannopoulos (Photo via Facebook)

Petulant ex-Twitter troll, Leslie Jones harasser, pig blood bathing artiste, and all-around thorn in the side of human decency Milo Yiannopoulos will be speaking at George Washington University this evening.

The event, taking place at 5 p.m., was originally open to the public but has been limited to GWU students.

“Fasten your seatbelts safe-space enthusiasts, Social Justice Warriors, and especially you, Trigglypuff, because the recently-banned-from-Twitter, self-labeled provocateur himself is coming to the District,” the online editor for the GW College Republicans, Gage Cohen, gleefully wrote earlier this week, in response to a Hatchet editorial.

That opinion writer, Stefan Sultan, argued that Yiannopoulos should be allowed to speak but “shouldn’t be allowed to target minorities within our student population. Before Yiannopoulos comes, he should assure students and administrators that he will not actively engage in hate speech at GW.”

GW Students Against PC Culture said they invited Yiannopoulos to speak as a response to the GW Program Board’s decision to rescind its invitation for controversial rapper Action Bronson to perform during the annual Spring Fling concert.

“This event is a vital test of GWU’s commitment to the academic freedom it grants to student organizations to present any speaker regardless of ‘disapproval . . of his ideas or motives,'” says John Banzhaf, a professor of public interest law at the university.

Fresh from his Williamsburg #DaddyWillSaveUs performance—let’s just say it involved a bathtub, Martin Shkreli, a fraternity of “western chauvinists,” Donald Trump supporters, and a lot of pig blood—the Breitbart editor is billing the speech as part of his “Dangerous Faggot” tour.

A number of other university groups have cancelled his appearances, including New York University and University of Miami College, largely over safety concerns. At GWU, the College Republicans will be paying for 12 university police officers (they didn’t have to pony up for the speech, though), according to Inside Higher Ed.

Yiannopoulos also spoke at American University last spring, where he was greeted with a large protest. He concluded his speech by addressing his opponents directly: “If there are any feminists left stinking the back of the room up, I have one message for you, which is [that] you’ve overplayed your hand and now you’re going to lose, and it’s going to be great,”