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Post by cjm on Feb 20, 2017 7:35:36 GMT
MILO: One Gay Brit Has Done More For Conservatism Than 30 Years of Establishment Conservatives... After claiming that he came to America in search of freedom, only to discover that academia, the media, and the entertainment industry were some of the most anti-free speech places he’d seen, MILO declared his intentions to talk about his “experiences in various American social institutions and where I think the conservative movement has been getting things wrong up until now.” “You listeners will know I’m not prone to self-flattery, but it might strike you as strange that one gay guy from Britain has managed to accomplish more than thirty years of other conservatives on American college campuses,” proclaimed MILO. “It’s very depressing.” ...
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Post by cjm on Feb 21, 2017 17:09:36 GMT
Milo Yiannopoulos book deal cancelled after outrage over child abuse comments ... Simon & Schuster’s decision follows outrage over a recording that appeared to show Yiannopoulos endorsing sex between “younger boys” and older men. The remarks were made during an internet livestream and circulated in an edited video on Twitter. In the clip, Yiannopoulos said the age of consent was “not this black and white thing” and that relationships “between younger boys and older men … can be hugely positive experiences”. ...
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Post by Trog on Feb 22, 2017 7:12:04 GMT
MILO Resigns from Breitbart NewsThis was a bad move. He should've defended a perfectly rational point of view. The very essence of the fight against Political Correctness is to deny that there are things that are not allowed to be questioned or discussed. In PC, there exists is this principle that there are certain absolutes. Many of these absolutes have to do with what people are allowed to think or to say. E.g. it is not allowable to say that blacks are less intelligent than whites. And this principle also includes the effect that the conversation stops once it has been demonstrated that a person attempted (or even had some thoughts about) a forbidden subject. That is, all you have to do is to show that someone, at some stage in his life, had a forbidden thought, to invalidate everything that this person ever said about anything. It is this principle which must be destroyed. I'm sure that this is what Yiannopoulos understands perfectly, and what he was doing a brilliant job with. I'm sure that he can also do the same with this, in fact even to the advantage of himself and also "the cause". I think the fact that he resigned was a direct order "from above" - an uninformed order.
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Post by cjm on Feb 22, 2017 11:43:12 GMT
MILO: ‘I Was A Victim Of Child Abuse’“I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.” wrote MILO in a Facebook post shortly after his press conference, “Between the ages of 13 and 16, two men touched me in ways they should not have. One of those men was a priest. My relationship with my abusers is complicated by the fact that, at the time, I did not perceive what was happening to me as abusive. I can look back now and see that it was. I still don’t view myself as a victim. But I am one. Looking back, I can see the effects it had on me. In the years after what happened, I fell into alcohol and nihilistic partying that lasted well into my late 20s.” MILO continued, “I’ve reviewed the tapes that appeared last night in their proper full context and I don’t believe they say what is being reported. Nonetheless I do say some things on the tapes that I do not mean and which do not reflect my views. My experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, “advocacy.” I am horrified by that impression.” Apologising for his any hurt his words may have cause saying, “The remarks I made on podcasts and interviews more than a year ago were about my personal life experiences. I will not apologize for dealing with my life experiences in the best way that I can, which is humor. No one can tell me or anyone else who has lived through sexual abuse how to deal with those emotions. But I am sorry to other abuse victims if my own personal way of dealing with what happened to me has hurt you.” And further explaining his reasoning for his resignation from Breitbart MILO said, “My employer Breitbart News has stood by me when others caved. They have allowed me to carry conservative and libertarian ideas to communities that would otherwise never have heard them. They have been a significant factor in my success. I’m grateful for that freedom and for the friendships I forged there. I would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues’ important reporting, which is why today I am resigning from Breitbart, effective immediately. This decision is mine alone.” ...
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Post by Trog on Feb 22, 2017 12:56:47 GMT
I suppose that there is the possibility of this being an elaborate setup. After all, Yiannopoulos has not done anything wrong, or even anything un-PC. Maybe this is being orchestrated to provoke a backlash against the instigators of this exercise. I get the feeling that this is a story in progress, rather than a final chapter.
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Post by cjm on Feb 23, 2017 5:26:28 GMT
I suppose that there is the possibility of this being an elaborate setup. After all, Yiannopoulos has not done anything wrong, or even anything un-PC. Maybe this is being orchestrated to provoke a backlash against the instigators of this exercise. I get the feeling that this is a story in progress, rather than a final chapter. I wondered how long he would get along with the Conservatives. Endorsing pedofilism is a problem. This is his 3rd book refused for publication.
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