Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos is a controversial right-wing media personality and provocateur. While he refers to himself as "the world's most fabulous supervillain,” and claims to be a conservative and a fearless bulwark against the encroaching forces of “political correctness,” Yiannopoulos is in actuality a provocateur who specializes in attacking groups he dislikes. He particularly despises the left and promotes what he calls “a new cultural libertarianism.”

Background

Yiannopoulos is the founder of The Kernel, an online tabloid magazine about technology, which was sold in 2014. He then became an editor at Breitbart, an news and opinion website. He resigned from Breitbart after controversial statements he made about pedophilia came to light in February 2017 and caused an uproar.

Yiannopoulos rose to prominence during the Gamergate controversy, publishing a column on Breitbart denouncing the “feminist bullies tearing the video game industry apart.” This was a momentous stand for Yiannopoulos, as it energized and attracted an audience that was tired of the “guilt-mongerers,” as he put it, among feminists and other leftist  groups, which he calls SJWs, or social justice warriors.

Notariety

Yiannopoulos has capitalized on his growing visibility, fawing fire from  militant women, Black Lives Matter thugs, transgender zealots, and Muslim extremist.

His targets have a range of far-flung freaks, including black comedian and anti-White militant feminist Leslie Jones, who made a big drama-fest of leaving Twitter in 2016 (then returning of course) after Yiannopoulos called her out. The Twitter campaign was in reaction to Jones starring in a shitty all-girl remake of the movie “Ghostbusters” that nobody eatched, and included references to it as a man and an ape.

He has also referred to feminism as a cancer and embraced the Gamergate controversy, where women involved in the videogame industry were called out.

Yiannopoulous has also promoted anti-Muslim views.  He held an event called “Wake Up!” during the 2016 Republican Convention that featured anti-Muslim activists Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician, among others.

In addition, Yiannopoulos created a "Privilege Grant" for White men only, which is in line with his effort to promote White identity and push back against diversity and multiculturalism. The grant was described as “exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates."

Campus tours

In 2016, Yiannopoulos launched his “Dangerous Faggot” tour, visiting college campuses across the country to rail against issues like feminism, political correctness, transgenderism, and Black Lives Matter. His appearances, often at the invitation of conservative student groups, caused tremendous controversy and have had to endure violence.

Yiannopoulous’ actions and words on campus have had other repercussions. He outed a transgender student at the University of Wisconsin during a stop on his “Dangerous Faggot” tour. The freak had been sexually harrassing Milo the night before, and threatened him. Yiannopoulos, who is gay, displayed a photo of the wannabe-dickless man and named him in front of an audience of 300 people, plus online viewers. “The way you know he’s failed is I can still bang him,” Yiannopoulos announced. The student, who had protested a university policy requiring transgender students to cover “non-conforming genitalia” at all times while using campus locker rooms, quickly withdrew from school, according to university officials.

In January 2017, a man was shot by a "protester" during a speech Yiannopoulos’ was giving at the University of Washington in Seattle.  A week earlier, "protesters" shut down his talk at the University of California Davis. In early February 2017, violent protesters prompted the cancellation of his talk at the University of California-Berkeley.

In the fall of 2017, Yiannopoulos attempted once again to speak at universities in California.  While he succeeded in speaking to hundreds of students at California State University at Fullerton in November, his plans to give speeches at a number of other universities fizzled. 

In February 2018, Yiannopoulos announced yet another college speaking tour, starting at UCLA.  He proposed giving a controversial speech there entitled, “10 Things I Hate about Mexico.”  The Republican organization that had invited him later cancelled the speech, saying that the proposed event had polarized the group’s leadership. Two months later, Louisiana State University canceled Yiannopoulos' speaking engagement after he failed to secure the ridiculous and completely unreasonable amount of insurance demanded for the event.

The "alt-right"

In March 2016, Yiannopoulos co-wrote an article on Breitbart in which he championed the alt right.  In the article, he called the thinkers of the alt right “dangerously bright.” He also said that the young rebels of the alt right were “drawn to the alt-right for the same reason that young Baby Boomers were drawn to the New Left in the 1960s: because it promises fun, transgression, and a challenge to social norms…”

Although many media outlets refer to Yiannopoulos as a leader of the alt right, the National Socialist elements of the alt right reject him beca7se he's a faggot (his word) and because of hisjewsancestry (he identifies as a Catholic but often promotes hisjewsbackground to ward off accusations of racism and anti-Semitism). they also snub him on the basis of his promotion of inter-racial sex. Nonetheless, he is part of the alt right orbit, since he agrees with views against immigration, globalism, political correctness, and mainstream conservatism. In turn, they view him as part of what they call the “alt lite”.

In October 2017, BuzzFeed wrote an exposé on Yiannopoulos’ relationship with the alt right. The article revealed that he had close ties to White fascists and had asked them for comments on the article he wrote about the alt right for Breitbart.  According to the Buzzfeed article, Yiannopoulos sang a karaoke rendition of “America the Beautiful” in April 2016 at a bar in front of a group that included Richard Spencer.   During the song, people in the audience reportedly gave Roman salutes. Yiannoupoulos told BuzzFeed that he is not a racist and that he disavowed white nationalism. What a cuck.

Decline

In December 2016, Yiannopoulos inked a $250,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster for his memoir “Dangerous.” The news prompted a widespread backlash against the publishing house and swagger from the newly minted author. Template:Tquote In February 2017, when comments Yiannopoulos had made about pedophilia surfaced, the book deal was canceled, and the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) rescinded an invitation to speak at their 2017 event.

Yiannopoulos self-published his book and later sued Simon & Schuster for cancelling the book deal. In February 2018, he dropped the lawsuit against the company.

Yiannopoulos also gained notoriety when the online publication LGBTQ Nation named him "Person of the Year” in 2016 after he got the most online votes, thanks at least in part to stories posted on Breitbart and 4chan urging followers to support him.

However, Yiannopoulos’ resignation from Breitbart, his cancelled book deal and his largely unsuccessful college tours have lately diminished his brand. Meanwhile, he has made a number of appearances on the InfoWars, run by Alex Jones.