RE: Milo Yiannopoulos; the man twitter banned got a book deal. Currently #2 on Amazon.
December 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2016 at 12:15 pm by Regina.)
I honestly think Milo has some good points, I agree with him on his "free speech absolutism", I can't fault his views on that.
But it's lost in vitriol and doing the exact same things he claims he doesn't like. He does play into identity politics a lot, and he also sensationalises cases of immigrant rape while ignoring Trump's bragging about sexual assault. He comes off like a massive hypocrite on some things.
I think half the things he says are either trolling or being deliberately outrageous, and he gets power from that, because people take him so seriously doing it. I think the outrage against him feeds into what he says, and even proves him right in some cases. That's why he has gravitas, more because of how people react to him than what he actually says.
But it's lost in vitriol and doing the exact same things he claims he doesn't like. He does play into identity politics a lot, and he also sensationalises cases of immigrant rape while ignoring Trump's bragging about sexual assault. He comes off like a massive hypocrite on some things.
I think half the things he says are either trolling or being deliberately outrageous, and he gets power from that, because people take him so seriously doing it. I think the outrage against him feeds into what he says, and even proves him right in some cases. That's why he has gravitas, more because of how people react to him than what he actually says.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
