Milo Yiannopoulos

How Trolls Like Milo Yiannopoulos Monetize Your Hate, And What To Do About It

... for Tucker Max, the "pick up artist" guru who provided advice to men on tricking or coercing women into having sex with them. Holiday describes how he defaced his client's own ads, tipped off activist groups to upcoming appearances in order to gin up controversy and ensure noisy demonstrations, and worked to encourage city bus companies to yank his clients' ads and activists to create petitions to cancel Max's speaking appearances. He likens this to the Milo Yiannopoulos playbook, saying that Yiannopoulos identifies the people who will hate him who have the biggest public followings, then works to specifically offend those people so that they tell other people not to listen to him. Though most people will take the critics' advice, there is a large, widely distributed group of young men who will also encounter the message, decide that no one will tell them what to think, and thus become unquestioning Yiannopoulos brownshirts. In an accompanying article in The ...

Milo Yiannopoulos Is Trying To Convince Colleges That Hate Speech Is Cool

... be Republican now.". Students at UC Davis in California protest the arrival of Milo Yiannopoulos. 'A troll and a provocateur'. Yiannopoulos is often identified with the alt-right, a far-right political movement rife with white nationalist, anti-Semitic and racist ideologies, although he rejects the label. His tour has coincided with a flurry of hate crimes around the country following Trump's election victory - many of them on college campuses. In the month after the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center said 172 hate incidents were reported at colleges and universities nationwide. The SPLC attributes the spread of alt-right propaganda on campus to the "increased confidence that these groups are feeling following Trump's victory," which they say is also being fueled by figures like Yiannopoulos and white nationalist Richard Spencer. "What's new is Donald Trump. There's somebody on the national stage who's. helping to ...

Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Ends Uc Berkeley Support Over Milo Yiannopoulos Protests

... against Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, who was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley, in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Because of the protest the event was canceled. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group). Protesters move barricades on Center Street at Shattuck Avenue during a protest against right-wing Milo Yiannopoulos who was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. The speech was canceled after a small group of protesters lit fires and damaged windows at the university. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group). Protesters march down Center Street towards Shattuck Avenue during a protest against right-wing Milo Yiannopoulos who was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. The speech was canceled after a small group of protesters lit fires and damaged windows at the university. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group). Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group. A member of the black bloc holds up flare as they set up fires and smash windows during a protest against right-wing Milo Yiannopoulos who was scheduled to ...

Why Milo Yiannopoulos Is A Man To Be Feared. It’s Not Why You Think

... targeted abuse or harassment of others.” That was even before his talk at the University of California at Berkeley last week was canceled after a peaceful protest turned violent, thanks to outside agitators who some suspect may have been called in by the provocateur himself. Yiannopoulos is one hateful fellow who is rightly called out as a misogynist, racist, transphobic and — oh yes — a self-loathing homosexual, and the alt-right is a small, far-right movement that seeks a whites-only state. But none of these things are why I’m afraid of him, and why you should be, too. No, the reason to pay attention to the 33-year-old Breitbart editor lies in his ability to provoke otherwise decent citizens to put profits and publicity before civil discourse, and in how his hateful speech incites many to clamp down on the free speech that is a fundamental right in this country. ...

Man Shot Before Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos' Speaking Event Is In Critical Condition

... at UC Davis. In a Facebook post Saturday, the British-born writer and public speaker wrote, “I don't know why Ana Mari Cauce, president of the University of Washington, is covering up the crimes of left-wing protesters. But she claims that other than the shooting, last night's protests were ‘peaceful.’ A ludicrous, easily disproven lie. Why bother?”. Yiannopoulos was banned by Twitter last January after he sent disparaging tweets about “Ghostbusters” actress Leslie Jones, one of them referring to her as a “black dude.” The African American actress became the target of a flood of harassing tweets, some of them racist, and Twitter concluded that Yiannopoulos had violated its rules “prohibiting participating in or inciting targeted abuse of individuals.”. Yiannopoulos uses a derogatory term for gays in the title of his speaking tour, and his speeches intentionally push the envelope. “The thing I most hate about the left,” he said at one appearance, “is that they want to stop us laughing – to prescribe which jokes are OK and which are not OK to make in public and to draw artificial lines around certain subjects. I find all sorts of inappropriate ...

Why An Artist Would Go On ‘the Milo Yiannopoulos Show

... because of my Iranian last name. Breitbart hilariously turned quotes into clickbait to fit their psychotic conservative narrative agenda, which did not shock me. What really fucked me up was the amount of friends who know I am a libertarian that stopped talking to me. Almost every liberal in my life treated me as a “suppressive person”. Texts came in every night: “Alex, we can’t be friends anymore after you did this. I’m sorry, you just went too far.” “How could you do this? How could you ever speak to that transphobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, alt-right Nazi racist piece of shit? How could you?” “FUCK YOU ALEX KAZEMI! FUCK YOU! YOU ARE SPREADING HATE!” Only one minority friend, a non-binary gay man called me in support. “Thank you so much for doing this, it was so refreshing and it ...

Milo Yiannopoulos To Speak At Cpac

... night. Yiannopoulos appeared on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” this past Friday, where he sparred with the show’s liberal host and took aim at high-profile female celebrities, including Lena Dunham and Amy Schumer. Updated: 8:29 p.m. CNN host abruptly ends segment. "Please stop it with that stupid talking point.". 1,658 Shares. Leaked tape reveals Trump invited. Newly leaked audio from a November party at President Trump's Bedminster. 709 Shares. Trump takes feud with press to. "Many of our greatest presidents fought with the media," Trump says. 354 Shares. Flynn replacement pick dropped out. President Trump's pick to replace former national security adviser Michael. 335 Shares. Priebus: Trump should be taken. The press "really needs to get its act together," White House chief of. 266 Shares. NY Times rips into Trump: 'An. '[T]he president confuses executive orders with achievements.'. 260 Shares. DHS chief signs sweeping new. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Saturday signed sweeping. 204 Shares. Mc Cain on shutting down press. Mc Cain tells Chuck Todd: "I hate ...

What Milo Yiannopoulos And Elizabeth Warren Have In Common

... He has mocked Jews , Muslims , African Americans , feminists , people who are overweight and the LGBT community (though he himself is gay), among others. Clearly, the goal is to bait his intellectual opponents (not all of whom are liberal, mind you) into trying to forcibly silence him. Sometimes you’re not trying to score. Sometimes you’re just trying to draw a foul. Sure enough, Yiannopoulos’s opponents happily oblige, with heckles, threats and sometimes even violence — such as the riots that erupted at the University of California at Berkeley this month, which led to the cancellation of his talk and his evacuation from campus. The riots didn’t silence Yiannopoulos, however; instead, the resulting coverage megaphoned his ugly message to a much broader audience and will help him sell more books, schedule more lucrative speaking gigs and receive more sympathetic tweets from our sitting president. (President Trump, under the guidance of former Breitbart publisher Stephen K. Bannon, has also proved especially adept at alchemizing liberal ...

In Defense Of Milo Yiannopoulos's Book

... Book. By Thomas Flannery Jr. |. Feb 15, 2017. It has been almost a year to the day since I began representing Milo Yiannopoulos as his literary agent. I have largely stayed quiet about the controversy that started right before the New Year, when the book deal became public, but I feel compelled to respond to Joy Peskin, whose soapbox “Drawing the Line” appeared in Publishers Weekly on February 6. I’ve been continually shocked by the willingness of many in the publishing industry to stifle Milo’s opinions. The right to speak freely, even if your opinions are unpopular, should be the bedrock of our industry. As Bill Maher said recently in response to the UC Berkeley riots, “Free speech should be something we own.” The AAP, ABA, Authors Guild, CBLDF, FTRF, Index on Censorship, NCAC, and NCTE all agree with me. Unfortunately, many in publishing did not heed their sound and sage words. To be clear: I do not agree with everything Milo says. As the cowriter of transsexual icon Amanda Lepore’s forthcoming memoir, I take particular ...