Posted on 02/04/2017 7:49:00 AM PST by Drew68
Sacramento, California (CNN)It's a recent Friday night in downtown Sacramento, and there's a man in a hotel lobby wearing a fur vest and sunglasses. He has a British accent.
A line of college-age fans stretches out the door.
They're waiting for autographs and selfies. Some are wearing "Make America Great Again" caps.
"Milo I love you! Oh my god, thank you -- I love what you do," says one woman to the man in the fur vest.
"Thank you for what you're doing," says another college student wearing a Donald Trump hat.
The subject of their adulation is not a rock star or a crusading politician but Milo Yiannopoulos, 32, an outspoken editor for the far-right Breitbart News. He's on a flamethrowing tour of college campuses -- including an event Wednesday night at UC Berkeley that was canceled after protests became violent -- and has made it his goal to take on the traditionally left-leaning college establishment.
"I just want to burn it down," Yiannopoulos said in an interview last month with CNN. "I am speaking on college campuses because education ... is really what matters. It's a crucible where these bad ideas are formed. Bad ideas like ... progressive social justice, feminists, Black Lives Matter ... that I think is so cancerous and toxic to free expression."
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This guy is about to get big real fast. The riots at Berkeley are making him a household name. His Amazon book sales are going through the roof.
Hope he's ready for the attention (and hope his security is prepared as well). He's rattling cages, disrupting institutions and pissing a lot of people off.
Yeah, I know he's flamboyantly gay. I don't care. He's in the trenches fighting the good fight to take back the college campus from the Left.
I heard CNN was relevant once but I’ll be damned if I remember when.
They make MSNBC seem right wing :)
Does that translate to "happy"?
Colleges do think hate speech is cool. They just control where and when it can be used and against whom it can be directed.
“hate speech”
Being defined as anything a liberal doesn’t agree with.
They get define hate, not so much going forward.
Anything posted here today Real ?
Liberals have ‘hate speech’ down to an art form. Milo is trying to teach liberal haters the value of free political speech.
Oh, and CNN sucks.
CNN trying to convince America there is such a thing as “hate speech”...and that it should be illegal.
College leftists have been pushing the idea that hate speech is cool for decades, in the form of intolerance, political correctness, and the on-going calls for more permanent solutions (in the spirit of the “final solution”). Milo is now rubbing their collective faces in it, and they don’t like it. They hate how their intolerance and violence seething just below the surface is exposed.
I like the fact that Milo is marketing conservatism (aka rational thought) to the young people. For too long, the young have rejected conservatism because it’s for old people. Rational thought and policies based on honest discussion and weighing of alternatives is really for everyone.
My son is a big fan of Milo.
“... Oh my god, thank you...”
Typical CNN... Refuse to capitalize “God”.....
lol... I get it now!!
Breitbart News is far right?
The propaganda is thick with this one. LOL
If Milo was a liberal the press would be uniformly calling any protests against him homophobic hate crimes.
Being defined as anything a liberal doesn’t agree with.
Precisely.
You don't think universities crapping their pants over guys like Milo Yiannopolous is real?
Their fear is very real.
I think you’re on to something. Let’s start labelling anyone who protests Milo’s presentations “flaming homophobes.” This could be fun!
Or maybe “flaming racist homophobes.”
Why not “flaming misogynistic racist homophobes.”
No bias in that headline. SNORT.
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