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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,932 posts)
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 12:58 AM Feb 2017

Matt Taibbi: Milo Yiannopoulos Isn't Going Away

Milo Yiannopoulos, the revolting bête noire of the Alt-Right, a person who is such a reactionary American that he's British, seems to have made a critical mistake. Surely, conventional wisdom holds, even Republicans will balk at being asked to equate liberty with child molestation?

As onetime conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes put it, "Anti-Semitism, ok. Racism, ok. Alt-right, ok. Advocacy of pedophilia? Is THAT the bridge too far?"

Along with longtime Breitbart cohort Steve Bannon, the foppish Yiannopoulos – the co-author of the Alt-Right's unofficial manifesto – has until now been extremely successful in selling the various intellectual justifications for Trumpism.

In particular, he's been one of the main voices pushing the idea that Donald Trump's most lurid and offensive behaviors are "conservative," because they represent a front in the war against speech limits and political correctness.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/matt-taibbi-milo-yiannopoulos-isnt-going-away-w468012?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=022117_12

If you read the comments after the RS article you'll find people are still defending this pervert.

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Matt Taibbi: Milo Yiannopoulos Isn't Going Away (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
New NAMBLA President? kysrsoze Feb 2017 #1
Send him back to the UK. Historic NY Feb 2017 #2
Milo should read this to get a better idea of what a real journalist writes like MrPurple Feb 2017 #3
He's not a very good writer, is he? MountCleaners Feb 2017 #4

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
4. He's not a very good writer, is he?
Wed Feb 22, 2017, 02:20 AM
Feb 2017

A lot of his pieces were just repetitions of stuff he saw on Twitter. It's my understanding that he had, like, 100 people doing his work for him.

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