Some racist pro-Trump fop from the UK has had a bad 48 hours.
First, The Reagan Battalion, a #NeverTrump conservative blog with interesting origins, posted clips from his interviews in different venues:
Here is the uncut 5 minute video of Milo Yiannopoulos advocating for Pederasty involving “13 Year old” and “older men.” HIS WORDS.@Mschlapp pic.twitter.com/mAgmfpuyvu
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 20, 2017
This ended up with voices from left and right calling for him to be disinvited from a speaking role at this year’s CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. The CEO of CPAC, Matt Schlapp, tried to run cover for him on Twitter, but eventually acceded to this demand:
“@ACUConservative has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at #CPAC2017.” pic.twitter.com/sVWGnPCW7C
— Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) February 20, 2017
But then the hits kept coming.
BREAKING: Simon & Schuster Cancels Publication of Milo Yiannopoulos’s Book
https://t.co/wGLc1Jnirw pic.twitter.com/NxP0x4aQNy— Mediaite (@Mediaite) February 20, 2017
And finally, after this:
Breitbart Employees Are Threatening To Leave If Milo Yiannopoulos Is Not Fired https://t.co/3XaXIQBVnGpic.twitter.com/vZQezmAIWr
— Yashar (@yashar) February 20, 2017
the final shoe dropped:
BREAKING: Milo Yiannopoulos Has Resigned From Breitbart https://t.co/2psmDKFCba pic.twitter.com/nk4hS9OvSM
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) February 21, 2017
NOTE:
Milo has now been sacked three times in 24 hours.
— PinkNews (@PinkNews) February 21, 2017
In the end, feminist writer Roxane Gay was vindicated in pulling her book from Simon & Schuster in protest against Hanrahan’s book deal:
When Simon and Schuster signed Milo, Roxane Gay gave up a pile of money and cancelled her deal in protest. Here are her thoughts…. pic.twitter.com/qOIdtB6TbS
— Yashar (@yashar) February 21, 2017
But of course, he then held a press conference announcing another media venture, just like he did at least three times before becoming the “tech editor” for Breitbart, where he ran a group of 44 interns to write his articles.
He’s a lazy writer, and also a lazy, vindictive, harassing, petty publication editor who prefers to rage against both perceived rivals to his business interests as well as perceived enemies of Western civilization. But his antics reached so many lows with which the likes of Steve Bannon and his successor were OK until he lost the support of 6 of his coworkers at Breitbart over his off-color statements and jokes on pedophilia.
Pedophilia/child abuse – not racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, immigrant-bashing, Muslim-bashing, Jew-bashing, ableism, and support for fascist behavior by governments – was the deal-breaker for the far-right.
And ironically, his rhetoric will provide more fodder for those who unjustly believe that LGBT people – even those on the far-right – are uniformly lecherous child abusers. This lie is as disgusting and inhumane as the act of child abuse.
This grifter cynically helped traffic this garbage, and he has temporarily fallen on the sword of the far-right’s literalism which he gleefully helped craft since joining Breitbart.
I hope he keeps losing until he learns humility, honesty and empathy.
