If you do not know who Milo is, then you must not be online. Milo Yiannopoulos is a white gay man who pissed me the fuck off. Recently he resigned, I think, from Breitbart which is an extremely conservative website. He was an editor there and now he is not. He gained and lost an invitation to the Conservative Political Action Conference. Milo is known for making articles that are "triggering to liberals".
A while ago, Milo was invited to speak at UC Berkeley, but he was cancelled because of intense protests. That led to an indirect tweet from President Cheeto, an invitation to Bill O'Reilly's show, and an invitation to the CPAC. He lost that invitation and his book was cancelled because a video came to light about him condoning pedophilia.
This is what he said specifically: "Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming-of-age relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable and sort of a rock where they can’t speak to their parents.”
He also said: “I’m grateful for Father Michael,” he said, in what appears to be an attempt at a joke. “I wouldn’t give nearly such good [oral sex] if it wasn’t for him.” He then argues that “pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty,” and not someone who is 13 years old and “sexually mature.”
He is also banned from Twitter after harassing actress Leslie Jones. He is also that face of the alt-right internet movement. He is known to hate immigrants, feminists, transgender people and basically anyone who is not white. His most famous quote is calling Feminism cancer and also says that transgender people are mentally ill.
Here's What I Think: Milo is just a typical white gay that I have encountered. Most white gay people that I have met are just as problematic as any white man. But they feel that because they are gay, they now are allowed to say whatever the fuck they want. Yes, if you are gay you face discrimination. But that discrimination does not give you a free pass to be an asshole to other people. You don't get to be racist and say that we can't call you racist because you face discrimination too.
You got me? Milo feels because now he is a "minority" he can say whatever the fuck he wants. White gay men are the most privileged in the LGBT community. They get the most representation and they are basically the face of the community. People of color and disabled LGBT persons are not given as much as a voice.
Many times, giving white people a voice in marginalized communities silences others and sometimes the people who have a voice are not speaking for everyone.
A while ago, Milo was invited to speak at UC Berkeley, but he was cancelled because of intense protests. That led to an indirect tweet from President Cheeto, an invitation to Bill O'Reilly's show, and an invitation to the CPAC. He lost that invitation and his book was cancelled because a video came to light about him condoning pedophilia.
This is what he said specifically: "Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming-of-age relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable and sort of a rock where they can’t speak to their parents.”
He also said: “I’m grateful for Father Michael,” he said, in what appears to be an attempt at a joke. “I wouldn’t give nearly such good [oral sex] if it wasn’t for him.” He then argues that “pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet who have not gone through puberty,” and not someone who is 13 years old and “sexually mature.”
He is also banned from Twitter after harassing actress Leslie Jones. He is also that face of the alt-right internet movement. He is known to hate immigrants, feminists, transgender people and basically anyone who is not white. His most famous quote is calling Feminism cancer and also says that transgender people are mentally ill.
Here's What I Think: Milo is just a typical white gay that I have encountered. Most white gay people that I have met are just as problematic as any white man. But they feel that because they are gay, they now are allowed to say whatever the fuck they want. Yes, if you are gay you face discrimination. But that discrimination does not give you a free pass to be an asshole to other people. You don't get to be racist and say that we can't call you racist because you face discrimination too.
You got me? Milo feels because now he is a "minority" he can say whatever the fuck he wants. White gay men are the most privileged in the LGBT community. They get the most representation and they are basically the face of the community. People of color and disabled LGBT persons are not given as much as a voice.
Many times, giving white people a voice in marginalized communities silences others and sometimes the people who have a voice are not speaking for everyone.
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