Milo Yiannopoulos

Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos Book Amid Pederasty Brouhaha

... pederasty, or sex between tween boys and older men. Industry bible Publishers Weekly first reported the cancellation on Twitter , saying the storied publishing house had scrapped the book “after careful consideration.”. Milo has personally confirmed that the book is canceled. He wrote on Facebook: “They canceled my book.” Milo attempted to clarify the statements he made in a video , stating that he wasn’t referring to underage boys when he used the term “boys.”. The revelation of Milo’s pederasty comments had already today prompted the Conservative Political Action Conference to rescind its invitation to Milo, who’d been scheduled to perform a keynote address. Well prior to the pederasty kerfuffle, Simon & Schuster had already been enduring widespread opprobrium from celebrities , liberal journalists and social justice warriors for giving Milo a book deal in the first place.  Milo is enormously controversial for his barbed comments about women and other groups. Earlier this month, a violent riot erupted in Berkeley, California when he was supposed to give a speech, and last year he was permanently banned ...

Cellphone Of Admitted Uw Shooter Outside Milo Yiannopoulos Event Was Wiped Clean, Records Show

... with prosecutors awaiting the results. Related stories. Editorial: Milo Yiannopoulos and the UW’s important lesson on free speech. The Seattle Times generally does not identify people who have not been charged with a crime. But the search warrant, for the first time, publicly identifies Hokoana as the shooter in a case that has drawn intense public scrutiny over the violent clash between Yiannopoulos supporters and demonstrators protesting his appearance. It also indicates police are investigating Hokoana for first-degree assault. Efforts to reach Hokoana were unsuccessful. His wife has previously declined to comment. Kimberly Gordon, a Seattle defense attorney, said she is representing Marc Hokoana but declined further comment. The warrant, filed with the court Feb. 9 by Detective Sgt. William Bergin, identifies the victim as Joshua P. Dukes, 34, a computer-security engineer and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer previously named by The ...

In Defense Of Milo Yiannopoulos's Book

... show up to his events and physically threaten him, or scream and smear fake blood all over themselves, or riot and destroy property, they are using tactics I, as a self-described progressive, have always chided others for using. I won’t stand for it when religious groups try to silence transgender supporters, and I won’t stand for it when so-called progressives try to silence conservative voices. I am proud of Milo Yiannopoulos and believe in his core message that political correctness is causing more harm than good. As a gay man, I am proud of Milo Yiannopoulos for saying things about gay culture I have often thought but never before heard uttered in public. And that to me is my job as a literary agent: to find writers with talent, new ideas, and the platforms to share them with the world. You may not like what Milo has to say or how he says it. But, as a member of the publishing community, you should be extremely cautious of your willingness to shut down a book you haven’t even read. Unless, of course, you’re scared you ...

Why An Artist Would Go On ‘the Milo Yiannopoulos Show

... 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 felt so different to hear people just talk so freely without being offended by one another. No one ever does that, anymore.”. Every time I read a new message I would question myself, a repeating chorus. “Am I dangerous for conducting this experiment? Am I insane for believing in the freedom of people’s minds and ability to think whatever they want? Does that make me a monster? Am I fucked up for not wanting to censor someone with opposing views from me, and allowing them to speak even when I disagree with everything they are saying? Do I have to protect everyone in my life from being offended? Do I need to start giving out trigger warnings in SMS conversations? Why are they all so obsessed with censorship, like it is achieving anything?”. How did disconnecting from me further my ...

Bill Maher Defends Booking Milo Yiannopoulos On ‘real Time

... comments on Islam have never veered into vitriol,” Maher said in a statement obtained by The Wrap. “Liberals will continue to lose elections as long as they follow the example of people like Mr. Scahill who’s views veer into fantasy and away from bedrock liberal principles like equality of women, respect for minorities, separation of religion and state, and free speech.”. Also Read: The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill Cancels 'Real Time With Bill Maher' Appearance Over Milo Yiannopoulos. “If Mr. Yiannopoulos is indeed the monster Scahill claims – and he might be – nothing could serve the liberal cause better than having him exposed on Friday night,” he continued. On Wednesday, Scahill issued a statement on   Twitter , saying he respects Maher and has enjoyed appearing on his show many times in the past, while adding: “I passionately disagree with — and find offensive — some of Bill’s views, particularly when his comments on Islam and Muslims veer into vitriol.”. Most Popular. Trump ...

Six Milo Yiannopoulos Protesters Charged With Misdemeanor 'unauthorized Assembly

... for the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office. The prosecutor's office released one name, Seth Kalis, 24, of Lansing. He was ticketed Dec. 7, is accused of "unauthorized assembly" and has a pending case in East Lansing District Court. Five others have not yet been arraigned, according to Hughes' email. In addition to the assembly offense, three of them also are charged with disobeying an officer. The maximum penalty for the violations is 90 days in jail and a $100 fine. Spartans for Free Speech brought the controversial Yiannopoulos to the campus late last year. A foe of political correctness, a fan of President Donald Trump and a Briebart News editor, the British provocateur is known for extreme views on rape culture, feminism, affirmative action, the Black Lives Matter movement and other topics. The sold-out speech attracted a ...

Are Trans People ‘disproportionately Involved’ In Sex Crimes

... to be transgender. Also Read: Larry Wilmore to Milo on Bill Maher's 'Overtime': 'Go F- Yourself' (Video). As Larry Wilmore noted in the “Overtime” segment, it’s easy to pull one person from a large group to stereotype the larger group. “You can always find an extreme person that becomes the object of your attack to assign that to everybody,” he said. “So if you say, well that person is weird, or they want to commit sexual assault, then everybody thinks all transgender people want to do is commit sexual assault.”. That’s when Yiannopoulos said transgender people are disproportionately involved in sexual assault, and that that was “not a controversial statistic.”. He’s right — it’s not controversial at all to say trans people are “disproportionately involved” in sex crimes. Except that they’re only “involved” in the same way people who are robbed are ...

Milo Yiannopoulos Advocates Child Sex

... of the "entertaining libertarian". "People see the types of scolds and dipsticks damning [Yiannopoulos, Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson] and reasonably enough conclude they must have something going for them," Blair wrote. Andrew Bolt - previously defender of Milo Yiannopoulos. Still. A fortnight ago, Herald Sun columnist Rita Panahi (yet another Andrew Bolt copycat spawned by the Murdochs) damned student protesters who want to "falsely label" Yiannopoulos "as an extremist… but he is nothing of the sort", merely a "conservative firebrand". Related Quotes. View all announcements. Panahi was merely parroting Bolt himself four days earlier, who described Yiannopoulos as a "Trump supporter and gay cult hero" and entreated us to "Give Milo this hearing.". So we did. And here's what he was revealed to have said on Tuesday morning: "You know what, I'm grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn't give nearly such good head if it wasn't for him." If that was a joke, it probably wasn't very funny to victims of child ...

Publisher Cancels Milo Yiannopoulos Book 'dangerous

... the book, which had been high on __link__'s best-seller lists and was the subject of intense controversy. The announcement came hours after the Breitbart editor was disinvited to this year's Conservative Political Action Conference because of past comments about relationships between boys and men. He has said remarks he made that could be construed as favoring men and boys having sex were edited wrongly. "Dangerous" was originally scheduled to come out in March. But Yiannopoulos had pushed back the release to June so he could write about the uprisings during his recent campus tour. At the time of his publisher's announcement, it ranked No. 83 on Amazon's overall list and No. 1 in the subcategory of Censorship & Politics. More than 100 Simon & Schuster authors had objected to his book deal, which was announced last December, and Roxane Gay withdrew a planned book. Some bookstores had said they would not sell his book, although the National Coalition Against Censorship and other free speech organizations had defended the publisher. Threshold is a conservative imprint that has ...

The Mistake The Berkeley Protesters Made About Milo Yiannopoulos

... that era. No film as egregiously racist as “Birth of a Nation” would be released so widely, and treated as a mainstream hit, today. The current debates regarding free speech tend to center as much on the rights of those making offensive statements as those potentially affected by what is being said. Five days before PBS broadcast its documentary (in which I appear as a commentator), a version of Trotter’s dilemma played out at the University of California, Berkeley, when the campus erupted in violence on the day of a planned speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart editor and gleefully acerbic provocateur nominally distinct from the so-called  alt-right. Last year, Yiannopoulos was permanently banned from Twitter for his role in a campaign of racist, sexist harassment directed at Leslie Jones, a “Saturday Night Live” cast member. When Twitter suspended his account, Yiannopoulos denounced it as “cowardly” and declared himself a martyr for the cause of free speech. Twitter, he said, was “a no-go zone for ...

Milo Yiannopoulos Loses His Book Deal With Simon & Schuster Amid Growing Outcry

... By Elahe Izadi By Elahe Izadi February 20 at 6:19 PM Follow @Elahe Izadi. Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., on Jan. 25. (Jeremy Papasso/Daily Camera via AP). Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Monday it cancelled Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal, the latest development in the growing backlash over resurfaced videos of the far-right provocateur criticizing age-of-consent laws. A statement from the publishing house offered little explanation: “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of ‘Dangerous’ by Milo Yiannopoulos.”. [ CPAC rescinds Yiannopoulos invitation amid social media uproar ]. The cover of the book by Milo Yiannopoulos “Dangerous” ( Simon and Schuster). Hours earlier, organizers of the ...