Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart amid child sex storm

[rpfocus]

From http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/21/media/milo-yiannopoulos-downfall/index.html

"Milo Yiannopoulos finally went too far. The professional provocateur has resigned as an editor at Breitbart News amid a firestorm over unearthed comments in which he seemed to endorse sex between "younger boys and older men." The news was first reported by the New York Times on Tuesday afternoon, minutes before Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a press conference in Manhattan.

"It would be wrong to allow my poor choice of words to detract from my colleagues' important reporting, so today I am resigning from Breitbart, effectively immediately. This decision is mine alone," Yiannopoulos said in a statement."

 

[John F Kennedy III]

I'm sure it comes as no shock to anyone here that the MSM are completely misrepresenting what Milo said. Both videos have been online for over a year without a problem until now.

#FakeNews

 

[Chomp]

Goddamned pedophiles !

 

[specsaregood]

I'm sure it comes as no shock to anyone here that the MSM are completely misrepresenting what Milo said. Both videos have been online for over a year without a problem until now.

#FakeNews

Dunno, I heard Milo used to eat at comet pizza all the time.

 

[undergroundrr]

Yeah, I buy that there's some out-of-context nonsense going on. But I'm sure at the time he didn't have any idea that he'd someday be a potential influential member of the political class. For better or worse, 4chan humor isn't going to get anybody a respectable job in the near future.

But I have to say I thought he was tougher than this. He seems to be just caving. And his followers aren't the type of people to back him up, especially after these fairly soft mea culpas. They'll just go on to the next thing.

I picture Axl Rose-style where-are-they-now sidebars in his future.

 

[juleswin]

Goddamned pedophiles !

I like a little bit of pedophiles with my hot dog

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Yeah, I buy that there's some out-of-context nonsense going on. But I'm sure at the time he didn't have any idea that he'd someday be a potential influential member of the political class. For better or worse, 4chan humor isn't going to get anybody a respectable job in the near future.

But I have to say I thought he was tougher than this. He seems to be just caving. And his followers aren't the type of people to back him up, especially after these fairly soft mea culpas. They'll just go on to the next thing.

I picture Axl Rose-style where-are-they-now sidebars in his future.

I'm seeing libertarians-gone-altright on facebook who attacked several libertarians of varying popularity (including Ian Freeman) for putting out ideas about age of consent, calling them 'degenerate,' 'filth,' etc, defending Milo on the same issue.

 

[phill4paul]

I. Don't. Care. He really receives too much mention on these forums.

 

[dannno]

I'm seeing libertarians-gone-altright on facebook who attacked several libertarians of varying popularity (including Ian Freeman) for putting out ideas about age of consent, calling them 'degenerate,' 'filth,' etc, defending Milo on the same issue.

Milo said 18 years old is about right for age of consent, although it is 16 in Britain and he probably has no issue with that either.

The media is trying to make it look like he was endorsing older adult males having sex wtih 13 year old boys, and that was not the case.

Milo understands that it is a difficult, complicated topic and there are no clear cut guidelines or answers, but there is also some egregious cases that are clearly wrong.

 

[dannno]

I. Don't. Care. He really receives too much mention on these forums.

No he doesn't. Milo was doing a fantastic job touring campuses, teaching people on both the left and right about the lies of these new waves of feminism and leftism that are destroying society. That is one of the most important things, if not THE most important thing that needs to happen right now in order to save our society, and there was NOBODY better suited to do it.

 

[fisharmor]

I'm seeing libertarians-gone-altright on facebook who attacked several libertarians of varying popularity (including Ian Freeman) for putting out ideas about age of consent, calling them 'degenerate,' 'filth,' etc, defending Milo on the same issue.

The age of consent and what constitutes pedophilia are two completely distinct concepts.

There are very few places where the age of consent is 14, but being sexually attracted to a 14 year old is objectively not pedophilia.

 

[undergroundrr]

No he doesn't. Milo was doing a fantastic job touring campuses, teaching people on both the left and right about the lies of these new waves of feminism and leftism that are destroying society. That is one of the most important things, if not THE most important thing that needs to happen right now in order to save our society, and there was NOBODY better suited to do it.

I'll take your word for it. I watched quite a few media appearances through Youtube and he only seemed to come up solid about half the time. I thought the Bill Maher appearance was pretty good, but he really wasn't ready to back up the claim of disproportionate transgender sex crimes. It seems like he has just gotten to the point that he thinks as long as what he says is provocative, that's enough.

I agree that calling out PC is valuable. And there's nothing wrong with being flawed and making a mistake. He just should never have tried to buddy up to actual politicians after his past schtick. That gets you fruit ninja'd.

The PewDiePie thing is identical. Those two both lost a lot of money and clout this week, not because they did something bad in the past, but because their delusions of grandeur fooled them into thinking they could join the establishment and bankroll accordingly.

 

[phill4paul]

No he doesn't. Milo was doing a fantastic job touring campuses, teaching people on both the left and right about the lies of these new waves of feminism and leftism that are destroying society. That is one of the most important things, if not THE most important thing that needs to happen right now in order to save our society, and there was NOBODY better suited to do it.

If that is the truth then we are well and truly fucked.

 

[dannno]

The PewDiePie thing is identical. Those two both lost a lot of money and clout this week, not because they did something bad in the past, but because their delusions of grandeur fooled them into thinking they could join the establishment and bankroll accordingly.

That is absolutely true, the establishment entertainment media HATES pewdiepie, some random guy on the internet getting more views than all the mainstream news networks combined lol.. and all he does is play video games and talk about random stuff.. They set him up and were just waiting to pull the rug out from under him, I'm sure..

Milo was a rising star in the political world as well, and definitely an enemy of the leftist establishment.

 

[Origanalist]

If that is the truth then we are well and truly fucked.

Well, we are, but I'm still not a fan of the dangerous fagg ot.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

No he doesn't. Milo was doing a fantastic job touring campuses, teaching people on both the left and right about the lies of these new waves of feminism and leftism that are destroying society. That is one of the most important things, if not THE most important thing that needs to happen right now in order to save our society, and there was NOBODY better suited to do it.

So much this ^

 

[TheCount]

I know what the author is trying to say, but "child sex storm" is not a good phrase.

Also, I'm amazed that he resigned... or, rather, that Breitbart is apparently not willing to back him. Are they trying to go more mainstream or... what? Even before his apology/correction, I didn't think this was that big of a deal. Yeah, sure, CPAC uninvites him, that makes sense - they have to appear to all flavors of conservative including some who hated him to start with, and it gave them a good excuse to kick him out. Maybe some of the more religious / anti-gay groups threatened to boycott or whatever. But Breitbart? I'm not understanding why they would dump him.

 

[fisharmor]

I know what the author is trying to say, but "child sex storm" is not a good phrase.

Also, I'm amazed that he resigned... or, rather, that Breitbart is apparently not willing to back him. Are they trying to go more mainstream or... what? Even before his apology/correction, I didn't think this was that big of a deal. Yeah, sure, CPAC uninvites him, that makes sense - they have to appear to all flavors of conservative including some who hated him to start with, and it gave them a good excuse to kick him out. Maybe some of the more religious / anti-gay groups threatened to boycott or whatever. But Breitbart? I'm not understanding why they would dump him.

Well Milo said it was his decision only, and that he wished in resigning to protect the work done by other Breitbart contributors.
However, I am from this other planet where I assume the things people write and say are indicators of what they want to communicate. I recognize virtually nobody else on Earth thinks that way, though.

 

[dannno]

If that is the truth then we are well and truly fucked.

Feminism teaches girls that waiting until they are in their 30s to get married, if at all, and fucking around in the bedroom in their 20s and focusing on their career is liberating - Milo tells girls the truth, this will likely lead to unhappiness, and that they should get married to a good stable man and have kids when they are young and attractive -- What is sooo horrible about that?? Reminding leftists that the data doesn't support the notion that women get paid less than men for equal work is bad? Telling women that they should eat healthy and try to look relatively attractive so they can find a good husband rather than listening to feminism which teaches them that it is ok to be fat and unhealthy and some how this will make them happy?? Damn lies.

C'mon man, you know these are huge problems, Milo was the only one in the room who was able to address them because when it comes from a typical conservative it is completely shunned and ignored.. when it comes from Milo at least some of them show up and listen.

 

[TheCount]

Well Milo said it was his decision only...

I don't believe that. I believe that he was not forced to resign, but the fact that he had the impression that the controversy could harm Breitbart or other writers on that site... I don't think that's coming from Milo.

To me, learning that a writer on Breitbart maybe said some arguably questionable things - and clarified them later - does not create a major issue. It's a media outlet that was born in fringe views and thrives on controversy to this day. They hired Milo to be controversial. That's essentially his job description... plus being their token gay. Because I do not think that this "controversy" would affect Breitbart right now, it leads me to believe that the actual conflict is with future plans for Breitbart, and therefore pressure was put on Milo by company leadership. Someone sees an opportunity for Breitbart to grow to a much larger media share, and apparently doesn't want to take even the slightest risk of offending any potential customer/viewer.