Students at Brunel university staged a mass protest after Katie Hopkins was chosen for their debate panel.
Controversial public speaker Katie Hopkins was left dumbfounded, after around 50 students got up and turned their backs to her on Monday.
The 40-year-old had joined the university's debate panel to discuss the issue of having a welfare state, but was met with hostility.
Following the protest, Katie wrote an open letter to the Daily Mail, accusing students of having a 'closed mind' to alternative opinions.
The mother-of-three wrote:
"This generation of students raised on social media are fast to join crusades and shun traitors, and demand the head of the guilty served to them on a pike.
"Offence is no longer regarded as an emotional reaction. If someone is offended by something I say, they now have the right to bring a public charge against me because I have done something wrong and should be punished for it.
"Three hundred thousand people signed a petition to have me sacked as a columnist; 55,000 signed a petition to have me swapped for a Syrian migrant. Neither with any effect.
"Students no longer debate. They label and slate:
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When I supported Ched Evans's right to re-employment, they called me a rape apologist.
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Because I'm a Conservative-voting female, they decided I was a homophobe.
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When I criticised our immigration policy, they labelled me a racist.
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And because I am not a fan of huge divorce settlements for women, they labelled me a misogynist.
"[A student] came to apologise on behalf of his fellow students.
"So to those who stayed and debated openly, I am grateful. Not because you stayed to listen, but because you give me hope our future is not entirely populated by closed minds."
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