The Milo Yiannopolous Thread

[pErvinalia]

People who like him still like him,

No they don't. Doesn't news reach your mum's basement?

was is ever thus.

In English?

[Scot Dutchy]

It is a long way down.

[pErvinalia]

His mum probably has to censor the news for him first.

[Scot Dutchy]

Cut it up into simple one syllable words?

[Strontium Dog]

Calling a Jewish faggot who likes sucking black cock a Nazi shows that you are officially a retard, was is ever thus.

It's true that he's a sexual and ethnic minority Uncle Tomming for neo-Nazis. I fail to see why that should insulate him from criticism.

[pErvinalia]

Cut it up into simple one syllable words?

[Brian Peacock]

Court documents filed in the US have revealed the editorial concerns of the publisher Simon & Schuster about the manuscript of the “alt-right” controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos’s autobiography Dangerous.

Having reportedly secured the book for an advance of $255,000 (£200,000), Simon & Schuster cancelled the deal in February after a recording emerged that appeared to show Yiannopoulos endorsing sex between “younger boys” and older men.

In July, Yiannopoulos set out to sue Simon & Schuster for $10m for breach of contract. As part of the case, Simon & Schuster have submitted documents that reveal the problems they had with the book. Among other criticisms, the publisher’s notes say Yiannopoulos needed a “stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats” and that another chapter needs “a better central thesis than the notion that gay people should go back in the closet”.

In addition to the documents, a full copy of an early manuscript of the book, complete with the Simon & Schuster editor Mitchell Ivers’s notes, is available to download from the New York state courts’ website....

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... k-revealed

OMG! You mean he's not a literary genius?

#whooddathunkit

[L'Emmerdeur]

Court documents filed in the US have revealed the editorial concerns of the publisher Simon & Schuster about the manuscript of the “alt-right” controversialist Milo Yiannopoulos’s autobiography Dangerous.

Having reportedly secured the book for an advance of $255,000 (£200,000), Simon & Schuster cancelled the deal in February after a recording emerged that appeared to show Yiannopoulos endorsing sex between “younger boys” and older men.

In July, Yiannopoulos set out to sue Simon & Schuster for $10m for breach of contract. As part of the case, Simon & Schuster have submitted documents that reveal the problems they had with the book. Among other criticisms, the publisher’s notes say Yiannopoulos needed a “stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats” and that another chapter needs “a better central thesis than the notion that gay people should go back in the closet”.

In addition to the documents, a full copy of an early manuscript of the book, complete with the Simon & Schuster editor Mitchell Ivers’s notes, is available to download from the New York state courts’ website....

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... k-revealed

OMG! You mean he's not a literary genius?

#whooddathunkit

You shouldn't traduce Yiannopoulos that way. The people he hires to do his writing for him are the actual literary non-geniuses.

"Two people write Breitbart stuff for me," he told BuzzFeed News, but "ghostwriting is too great a word." He said that the majority of his interns are researchers and that some write speeches for him. "I have two books coming out this year," he said. "It's completely standard for someone with a career like mine to have researchers and assistants and ghostwriters."

[JimC]

Shameless...

[NineBerry]

He has been arrested by ICE and is going to be deported

[pErvinalia]

I'll get my tiny violin out.

[Sean Hayden]

I thought he was lying for Jesus these days, where’s he going to land now?

[Brian Peacock]

Apparently even the very right-wing 'news' outlets are baulking (Guradian) at the idea of employing him. Watched out for the mysteriously well-funded YouTube channel coming soon!

[Brian Peacock]

Milo Yiannopoulos, the British far-right commentator who was arrested last week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Louisiana and deported to the United Kingdom, has broken his silence about the experience, saying that “for the first time I know what it feels like to be really, really terrified”.

...

“I didn’t really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America” he said, adding: “It’s like everybody that’s arrested is an MS-13 gang member, and it hurts a lot more than it looks like on television.”

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Yiannopoulos also said that while he was detained, “no one would tell me anything” – a common complaint from people held in ICE custody.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been frightened like that before” he told Morgan. “I think maybe in the past I’ve been a little bit blasé when people talked about their trauma, a little bit cavalier when people talked about stuff kind of lingering with them, but I get it now … I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.”

Last year, in posts on social media, Yiannopoulos had been supportive of Trump’s crackdown on immigration.

In one post, he wrote: “There is one concrete thing we must insist on this administration delivering. It matters a lot more than debts measured in imaginary money. We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters.”

In another post, Yiannopoulos had said that California “needs ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections and government buildings, with on the spot deportation for anyone who can’t prove they are in the US legally”...

Guardian >>

tldr: "This should never have happened to a white guy like me."

[pErvinalia]

Another conservative lacking empathy only understands when it happens to him.