Posted on 02/24/2017 4:29:58 PM PST by grundle
How a 16-year-old took down Milo
Julia closely follows political news from her home in Canada, with a deep interest in American politics. She has been particularly alarmed by the recent rise of Yiannopoulos and others like him. So as soon as she heard Yiannopoulos would speak at CPAC, she was appalled.
Then an old moment popped in her head. She remembered hearing an obscure podcast, in which Yiannopoulos defended the idea of “13-year-olds” having sex with “older men,” arguing that child molestation provided a “sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship” for teenagers.
Her memory was right. She found the July 2016 clip.
She didn’t think she’d have much luck spreading the news herself with her small Twitter following, so she contacted a conservative outlet to get the story out. She figured a liberal outlet would have less credibility among CPAC followers.
She landed on the previously not-very-well-known conservative blog Reagan Battalion, which, after a bit of back and forth, tweeted out the video — leading not just to CPAC canceling Yiannopoulos’s speech, but to Simon & Schuster pulling his already controversial book deal and his resignation from Breitbart.
“I thought it would only get, like, 200 retweets,” Julia said. “I had no idea that it would blow up to the extent that it did.”
It ended up at thousands of retweets.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
it is good this has happened and its over.
should have never aligned with him in the first place.
conservatives dont use people we have fundamental disagreements with to go after people we ourselves won’t. let the libtards use people like this, its why they are all eventually getting tired of their tactics and bailing on them.
“Then an old moment popped in her head. She remembered hearing an obscure podcast, in which Yiannopoulos defended the idea of “13-year-olds” having sex with “older men,” arguing that child molestation provided a “sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship” for teenagers.”
All liberals defend that.
This incident shows the double standards of liberals, but not conservatives.
It is interesting in that I don’t think I’ve seen the crazy left attack Milo over this.
Canadian? Pfffft. j/k. I know we have some great Canadian FReepers.
I was responsible for finding the “Barack Hussein Obama, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm” vid years back......but nothing was written about ME.
the left agrees with milo about adults sleeping and being naked with 13 year olds. further approval this week by chris cuomo, on air.
it is not strange they havent attacked milo. hes gay and wants xex with kids. so do the liberals.
Well, not quite true. She contacted the Reagan Battalion after reading their piece on Milo with a location for a video.
She didn’t think she’d have much luck spreading the news herself with her small Twitter following, so she contacted a conservative outlet to get the story out.
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She contacted the Reagan Battalion after reading their piece on Milo with a location for a video.
And....the Reagan Battalion is NOT conservative....it’s an anti-Trump group/social media account that supports the NeverTrumper’s outlets that put out so many Trump hits, during the campaign.
Keeping Muslims who want to kill us out of our country isn’t bigotry; its human self-preservation. And its an ideology, a totalitarian one and not a race.
As for the rest of it, I’m appalled by Milo because his views aren’t libertarian, let alone conservative. Someone who thinks pedophilia is acceptable is sick. And with that stand, I’m out. I’m very much a conservative with core values. Its more important than ever to stand athwart history and yell “stop!”
This is all a lie. Milo’s videos have been floating around for 3 or 4 months, possibly longer, with 300K+ views on Youtube even before the kerfluffle.
This stupid Canuckistinian didn’t do s***. The media was sitting on it waiting for Milo to get big enough to take down.
Vox is an Obama sycophant site. And two other problems. I don’t like Canadians getting involved here in American politics. Second, I don’t need a little kid lecturing me.
So when does the GOPe destroy this 13-year-old using the same tactics they learned from their close association with the DNC.
I applaud her bravery and believe that God directed her arrow.
It’s my understanding that Milo was a victim of molestation when he was 13. As such, I would think that he is a very confused person, and I hope that he has friends and family that will pray for him to get the therapy he needs to recover from the perversion.
Here’s what Milo said on FaceBook;
Milo Yiannopoulos
8 hrs ·
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I am a gay man, and a child abuse victim.
I would like to restate my utter disgust at adults who sexually abuse minors. I am horrified by pedophilia and I have devoted large portions of my career as a journalist to exposing child abusers. I’ve outed three of them, in fact — three more than most of my critics. And I’ve repeatedly expressed disgust at pedophilia in my feature and opinion writing. My professional record is very clear.
But I do understand that these videos, even though some of them are edited deceptively, paint a different picture.
I’m partly to blame. My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous. But I understand that my usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy, a lack of care for other victims or, worse, “advocacy.” I deeply regret that. People deal with things from their past in different ways.
As to some of the specific claims being made, sometimes things tumble out of your mouth on these long, late-night live-streams, when everyone is spit-balling, that are incompletely expressed or not what you intended. Nonetheless, I’ve reviewed the tapes that appeared last night in their proper full context and I don’t believe they say what is being reported.
I do not advocate for illegal behavior. I explicitly say on the tapes that I think the current age of consent is “about right.”
I do not believe sex with 13-year-olds is okay. When I mentioned the number 13, I was talking about the age I lost my own virginity.
I shouldn’t have used the word “boy” — which gay men often do to describe young men of consenting age — instead of “young man.” That was an error.
I am certainly guilty of imprecise language, which I regret.
Anyone who suggests I turn a blind eye to illegal activity or to the abuse of minors is unequivocally wrong. I am implacably opposed to the normalization of pedophilia and I will continue to report and speak accordingly.
https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851826321621931
Milo Yiannopoulos
Yesterday at 8:04pm ·
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A note for idiots (UPDATED):
I do not support pedophilia. Period. It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst. There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.
If it somehow comes across (through my own sloppy phrasing or through deceptive editing) that I meant any of the ugly things alleged, let me set the record straight: I am completely disgusted by the abuse of children.
Some facts to consider:
1. I have outed THREE pedophiles in my career as a journalist. That’s three more than any of my critics and a peculiar strategy for a supposed pedophile apologist.
(a) Luke Bozier, former business partner of Louise Mensch
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/…/menshn-co-founder-embroile…/
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/…/…/3746/luke-bozier-arrested/
(b) Nicholas Nyberg, anti-GamerGate activist who self-described as a pedophile and white nationalist
http://www.breitbart.com/…/leading-gamergate-critic-sarah-…/
(c) Chris Leydon, a London photographer who has a rape trial starting March 13 thanks to my reporting.
http://www.breitbart.com/…/tech-city-darling-chris-leydon-…/
2. I have repeatedly expressed disgust at pedophiles in my journalism.
http://www.breitbart.com/…/heres-why-the-progressive-left-…/
3. I have never defended and would never defend child abusers, as my reporting history shows. The world is messy and complicated, and I recognize it as such, as this furore demonstrates. But that is a red line for any decent person.
4. The videos do not show what people say they show. I *did* joke about giving better head as a result of clerical sexual abuse committed against me when I was a teen. If I choose to deal in an edgy way on an internet livestream with a crime I was the victim of that’s my prerogative. It’s no different to gallows humor from AIDS sufferers.
5. National Review, whose journalists are tweeting about this, published an article defending Salon for giving a pedophile a platform.
6. I did say that there are relationships between younger men and older men that can help a young gay man escape from a lack of support or understanding at home. That’s perfectly true and every gay man knows it. But I was not talking about anything illegal and I was not referring to pre-pubescent boys.
7. I said in the same “Drunken Peasants” podcast from which the footage is taken that I agree with the current age of consent.
8. I shouldn’t have used the word “boy” when I talked about those relationships between older men and younger gay men. (I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.) That was a mistake. Gay men often use the word “boy” when they refer to consenting adults. I understand that heterosexual people might not know that, so it was a sloppy choice of words that I regret.
9. This rush to judgment from establishment conservatives who hate Trump as much as they hate me, before I have had any chance to provide context or a response, is one of the big reasons gays vote Democrat.
10. In case there is any lingering doubt, here’s me, in the same interview the other footage is taken from, affirming that the current legal age of consent is about right: “And I think the law is probably about right. It’s probably roughly the right age. I think it’s probably about ok. But there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age. I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who were sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world, by the way.”
https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851263248344905
You are saying that a 13-year-old girl is a “stupid Canuckistinian”
She just happened to stumble across ‘Reagan Battalion’. Wow. What incredible luck.
Read post 14.
Careful - you’re not parroting the approved groupthink.
Yes.
This is them giving history a colorful story that is total bull.
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