Quote:UC Irvine students furious over an upcoming “Rally for America” event to be hosted by Milo Yiannopoulos and the UCI College Republicans on Oct. 30 are supporting a petition calling for it to be canceled, saying the event will be “filled with hate and rooted in exploitation of non-white bodies.”

More than 1,000 people have signed the “Stop Milo From Coming To UC Irvine” Change.org petition since it was launched two days ago.

The petition, in particular, bristles at the event planners’ call to “wear your most culturally appropriating, offensive, triggering Halloween costume to the event for a fabulous costume contest” and “bring as much privilege as you can.” The event serves as a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and is part of Yiannopoulos’ “Dangerous ****** Tour,” in which he is visiting colleges across the nation to speak on various issues.

“As you can see,” the petition states, “this event will be filled with hate and rooted in exploitation of non-white bodies … it will be a Halloween event in which they are openly supporting hate, dehumanization of POC, cultural appropriation, and bigotry.”

UC Irvine student Bushra Bangee, the Southern California director of the Muslim Student Association West, has also called on her peers to report the event to the UC system’s “intolerance” tracking division, saying it will give the system “databasing proof” of bigotry.