Yiannopoulos Chokes - And Not On A Dick

I was planning to read Milo Yiannopoulos book when it came out, but apparently now I won't be able to. If you've heard about Milo on NPR, you've probably heard he's that racist, homophobic, white supremacist leader of the alt-right. What you wouldn't have heard is that he's gay and claims a preference for black men. On a recent appearance on Bill Maher's show he even told two black men on the panel he would think of them while he masturbated after they both told him to fuck off. Yeah, Yiannopoulos is crude. He enjoys saying exactly the thing that will anger his opponent in any debate. He is a provocateur who's appearance at Berkeley had to be cancelled because of violence. Yiannopoulos got the school famous for it's Free Speech Movement to shut down an advocate of free speech. Which is something Milo most assuredly is, regardless of the lies told about him to characterize him in a way that legitimizes censoring him.

Twitter was the first to censor Milo's @nero account, which is convenient for his detractors because we can't actually see what was tweeted that twitter deemed worthy of censoring. Or anything Yiannopoulos ever tweeted. So those attacking him can tell the story however they want without reference to facts.

More recently the Jeff Berwick run Anarchapulco conference announced he was not welcome there, despite speaking there last year. Listening to him talk about liberal or libertarian values it's hard to decry the quality of his oratory. But more recently Yiannopoulos supported the Trump campaign, kissing posters of the candidate and calling him "daddy" in an overtly sexualized way.

Milo has also been a staunch opponent of feminism. Yes, he can sound misogynistic when he's on the topic because of his penchant for polemic speech, but in a country where men literally have no rights to protect their unborn children against abortion the feminist movement has clearly gone too far. And the idea that a society can kill its children and survive is a very dangerous meme indeed. Yiannopoulos calls it a cancer, a sufficiently stark metaphor given the gravity of the subject.

Yiannopoulos is a satyagrahi. His invective exists to provoke response.

Thus it saddened me to hear that yesterday Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from his position at Breitbart. He was finally able to incite enough anger in others that he was crushed under the weight of it. It's hard to imagine it any other way, really, as this social provocateur built up to greater and greater crescendos. His apology is an apology in the classical sense. I hope he doesn't go away.