What does lolcow think about Milo?
inb4 go away robot:
i'm a woman, a moderate liberal (if that matters) and im just legit curious to hear your thoughts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopouloshttps://www.instagram.com/milo.yiannopoulos/http://www.breitbart.com/milo/This happened in Feb:
So there is, after all, a line that you cannot cross and still be hailed by conservatives as a champion of free speech (…) But then a recording emerged of Yiannopoulos cheerfully defending relationships between older men and younger boys, and finally it turned out that free speech had limits. The book deal and CPac offer swiftly evaporated. The next day, he resigned his post as an editor at Breitbart, the far-right website where he was recruited by Donald Trump’s consigliere Steve Bannon, and where several staffers reportedly threatened to quit unless he was fired.
In the incriminating clip, Yiannopoulos prefaces his remarks with a coy, “This is a controversial point of view, I accept”, this being his default shtick. Maher absurdly described him as “a young, gay, alive Christopher Hitchens” – a contrarian fly in the ointment, rattling smug liberal certainties – but Hitchens had wit, intellect and principle, while Yiannopoulos has only chutzpah and ruthless opportunism. Understanding Yiannopoulos requires a version of Occam’s Razor: the most obvious answer is the correct one. What does he actually believe in? Nothing except his own brand and the monetisable notoriety that fuels it. That’s Milo’s Razor. Understanding how he got this far is more unnerving.
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