Milo agrees he does like offending people
Channel 4 News (the UK one):
This is the moment Milo Yiannopoulos is challenged on Breitbart’s headlines and so-called “post-fact era.”
The news outlet’s former chairman Steve Bannon has been appointed as Donald Trump’s chief strategist – and there’s speculation that Yiannopoulos himself could find his own way into the White House.
Go there to see their excerpt, or here is the full interview:
He says himself he’s a troll:
You know perfectly well that it is a provocation designed to make people think and perhaps to make them laugh.
In other words, trolling.
At about 4:40 he’s even more explicit:
I do like offending people. I think that the grievance brigade, victimhood, you know the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency, I think that’s come to an end, and America agrees.
It’s classic bully-speak, that. People are hurt by insults, therefore it’s important to insult them incessantly so that they will stop objecting to being insulted. People are hurt by insults, therefore it’s important to insult them incessantly to make them shut up and go away and let you run the show.
It’s wrong. It’s evil, and wrong. Sure, ideally, it’s useful for people to be tough and resilient – but those aren’t actual virtues or good qualities. They’re just useful. Yes people who melt down over every tiny thing are maddening, and should learn to do better. But people not liking to be insulted? There’s nothing unreasonable about that, and it’s revolting to watch smug Yiannopoulos boasting of doing it on purpose because he likes offending people.
But no doubt Trump will make him Labor Secretary or something.
Of course, it’s laughable anyway, since the ones who actually melt down over the tiniest things are the MRAs, the MGTOWs, and the PUAs – Milo’s people. They are melting down because someone might suggest that it isn’t nice to call women fat pigs. They are melting down because women they don’t believe are attractive are allowed to roam free on the streets, and not being forced to stay home where no one can see them. They’re melting down over everything.
So Milo’s recovered from Twitter taking his check mark away? ‘Cause he was sufficiently traumatized by that to whine about it at a White House Press conference.
(And now, in the new WH, he’ll be taken seriously.)
Please pardon me for talking about something as irrelevant as someone’s appearance, but… is he wearing a wig made of cobwebs?
That video is hard to watch, isn’t it? Yiannopoulos is nothing more than a spoiled and not very bright 13 year old boy. Who wears a wig made of cobwebs.
I love it when he tries to intimidate Newman and then rather too lately realises that this is far from her first rodeo.
“For decades, America has been run by social justice warriors”. Actually, America has been run by the rich and will continue to be run by the rich. In particular, rich white men. The alt-right is doing such a good job at hiding and reassigning blame. I guess that’s what the Right always does.
He wouldn’t be the worst SCOTUS pick the pretender could make…
All he is saying is that the culture of ‘Victimhood’ must come to an end. All you special snowflakes who believe that your sore feelings mean more than my right to free speech must understand that just because I disagree with you doesn’t mean you get to behave as though I have physically assaulted you. These are NOT one and the dame thing.
1. No that’s not all he’s saying.
2. The right to free speech has nothing to do with calling women cunts on Twitter.
3. Disagreement is not the issue; the issue is things like calling women cunts on Twitter.
Other than that, great comment.
Dan the Man:
I don’t have much to add over Ophelia’s points other than:
2.1 I don’t think you’ll find anyone here who believes that sore feelings trump your right to free speech. Spare us any examples, though, unless they’re really, really good ones. Examples of the kind “I wish X would shut up about Y” are not cries to censor free speech. By contrast, campaigns to frighten, oppress and otherwise coerce people into silence are exactly the sort of disregard of free speech rights that you claim to deplore. And yet Yiannopoulos doess this all the time.
2.2. Nobody thinks disagreement is akin to physical assault but it’s people like Yiannopoulos who try to turn disagreement into something like physical assault by turning it into a campaign and fanning the flames. People actually do get hurt. By people like you. For no other reason than the soothing of your own egos.