Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News

[DonViejo]

By Paul Farhi February 21 at 2:54 PM
Milo Yiannopoulos, the incendiary writer and commentator who help make Breitbart News a leading organ of the “alt-right,” resigned from the news organization Tuesday after a video of him endorsing pedophilia surfaced online over the weekend.

Yiannopoulos — known simply as MILO in Breitbart’s own coverage of him — has been a flame-throwing provocateur whose writing has offended women, Muslims, blacks and gay people ever since former Breitbart executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon hired him as a senior editor in 2014.

Bannon, now President Trump’s senior adviser, championed the British-born Yiannopoulos’ inflammatory commentary and promoted him as a conservative truth teller and champion of free speech. In turn, his popularity helped raise Breitbart’s profile among Trump’s supporters and the “alt-right,” a vaguely defined collection of nationalists, anti-immigration proponents, and anti-establishment conservatives.

“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,” Yiannopoulos said in a statement. “They have been a significant factor in my success. I’m grateful for that freedom and for the friendships I forged there.”

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[HopeAgain]

1. He still wins

He's a household name now. Like Anne Coulter, spewing garbage that will fill his pocketbook. He doesn't need Breitbart anymore; actually, they needed him.

No one should ever even whisper his name again. That is the only solution to hate speak, don't give them a platform,

[spanone]

2. no one supports pedophilia....he's toxic.

[HopeAgain]

3. I don't know if there is such a thing anymore...

Seems like everything goes in this deep dark Web-driven world now...

[Hekate]

7. You don't know "if there is such a thing (as pedophilia) anymore"? Please clarify

Pedophilia exists and it's illegal for a reason. If you meant something else, please explain.

[HopeAgain]

8. Oh hell no

Anything such as "toxic" anymore. Seems the more disgusting they are, the more attention they get..

[Hekate]

9. Oh good. What a world.

[melman]

5. No he actually does need Breitbart

As awful as it is, it kept him somewhat in the mainstream world. He was an editor at an actual 'name' thing. Now he'll be like some wacko YouTube guy like Paul Joseph Watson, and when's the last time you saw him on TV?

[tenderfoot]

6. He was brought down by conservatives. LOL.

He wins

[Warren DeMontague]

11. And yet, 48 hours of sunlight and exposure did more to shut him up than years of protests.

It begs the question, too, as to why the people who were invested enough (supposedly) in keeping him from speaking that they were willing to set downtown Berkeley on fire, couldn't be bothered to dig up this year old video or whatever.

To my mind, it either means they weren't very good at what they do, or they weren't what they were pretending to be.

[workinclasszero]

4. HAHA!

[AngryAmish]

10. What a racist and homophobe!