The additional context is providing us pretty useless information that nobody except him would care about
"Its not a campus cancellation, this was off campus aaaand this Professor is actually still invited and now to an on campus event!"
uhhh ok.
My takeaway is that there is some silver lining here that communication was done between parties instead of a unilateral kneejerk cancellation. But they should have still ignored detractors and held that "off campus" outreach event. Let the detractors embarrass themselves when trying to interrupt the Professor's speech or ask irrelevant questions at the end.
"Its not a campus cancellation, this was off campus aaaand this Professor is actually still invited and now to an on campus event!"
uhhh ok.
My takeaway is that there is some silver lining here that communication was done between parties instead of a unilateral kneejerk cancellation. But they should have still ignored detractors and held that "off campus" outreach event. Let the detractors embarrass themselves when trying to interrupt the Professor's speech or ask irrelevant questions at the end.