I for one welcome our new gay overlord.
Kind of stupid on how it began, with a bunch of Twitter trolls attacking black actress Leslie Jones over the wretched Ghostbusters remake. Nothing new for Twitter, which sucks to the core, but somehow it led to Breitbart writer and troll demigod Milo Yiannopoulos being blamed for the attack on Jones and subsequently permanently banned from Twitter.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/twitter-mil ... -1.3686843All in all it's just more internet lunacy from both sides, the BLM assholes of the extremist left nd the trilby-wearing 4Chan neckbeards (allegedly) of the alt-right. Milo though isn't amused, and apparently has received a ton of death threat over the incident with Jones and is now guarded by armed security.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/twitter-mil ... -1.3687685$1:
Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-described gay conservative dissident and "super-villain" of internet trolling, was suspended from Twitter Tuesday following tweets directed at Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones that incited a racist online campaign against her. He claims he was banned for simply speaking his mind.
On the same day he was booted from the micro-blogging service, Yiannopoulos spoke with CBC News during a smoke break at his hotel in Cleveland, where the Breitbart News provocateur is hosting events with conservative firebrand Ann Coulter.
During the interview, Yiannopoulos appeared nervous and was watched closely by private security. He intermittently stopped the interview to consult with his guards.
Here are edited excerpts from the interview.
On his decision to participate in events around the Republican National Convention:
I'm a Brit. I'm here to give people a warning from Europe, because I've seen the way that things can go when you forget about why free speech is important, you forget that freedom has to be earned every generation.
I'm here to give a warning about what happens when you forget that public life is supposed to be about challenge and mischief and debate. This is something the left doesn't like anymore, and they shout down anybody who doesn't agree with them as a bigot, racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a transphobe, all this kind of stuff. Well, it doesn't work anymore. The public doesn't it like it anymore, and they displayed that appetite for mischief in their support for Donald Trump.
On the tight security he's surrounded himself with:
These days, we've amped it up, and they're armed, and there's lots more of them. I need them because the left are insane and they're going to try to kill me.
You know, Black Lives Matter charges the stage, swings for me, snatches mics, and it's only a matter of time before one of them comes at me with a knife. It's not a mystery why I might have security with me.
I'm going to Sweden next week to do a gay pride march through a Muslim ghetto because if nobody else is going to stick up for us, we have to do it ourselves, and demonstrating that regressive, socially conservative attitudes that don't just militate against gay interests, but actively affect gay people's lives are coming from Muslims all over the West, and if the left isn't going to stick up for us, I'm going to demonstrate what I thought pride was supposed to be about through action.
But yes, somebody's going to come for me there, too. And when they do, the response from the left is going to be, 'Well, you kind of had it coming, you were being provocative, weren't you?'
On his fears of being physically attacked by Democrats and left-wing activists:
Of course, they hate me. They absolutely hate me. I have no doubt in my mind that somebody's going to make an attempt on my life in the next couple months because I have the audacity to say what I think. That's horrifying.
This peace, love and understanding nonsense saves nobody, and helps nobody. Left-wing political lying and molly-coddling, and sucking up to Islam and sucking up to Muslims helps nobody.
On political correctness and being a provocateur:
The left is obsessed with language policing and control and transgender pronouns. That's got nothing to do with gay life. Gay life is about pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable, about pushing the limits of speech and thought, and being dissident and mischievous and experimentation.
I use that term [super-villain] ironically, because all I do is talk about the things that I think are interesting and fun and dissident and mischievous, and I look to William S. Burroughs and Quentin Crisp, these great queer decadent, dissident figures for the past and say look, today, if you want to be mischievous, you have to be on the right. It's the left in power in the media. If you want to be mischievous, you want to be naughty, you want to stick two fingers up at the establishment, well you have to be right wing now to do that. It's kind of crazy.