# How does Milo Yiannopoulos exist, exactly? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 19, 2016, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298 "2016-07-19T08:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/1 "2016-07-19T08:46:55Z")
No, really. How does this person exist? How has he managed to make it to 30-odd years of life? If I hated an immutable part of my identity that much, I would have killed myself _years_ ago. And yet, here we are, in 2016, shortly after the republicans release a political platform espousing ex-gay therapy, bans on gay marriage and gay parenting, and enabling religious discrimination against homosexuals, hearing (although hopefully not listening to) a gay guy who said he “chose” to be gay _and_ wishes he could be straight - taking one stupid, homophobic position wasn’t bad enough, I guess, he needed both, regardless of how internally inconsistent he is - say “[we’re your gays](http://reason.com/blog/2016/07/18/milo-yiannopoulos-proposed-a-gay-conserv)” to a crowd [containing a non-trivial number of people who want gay people barred from the country](http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/02/guess-how-many-donald-trump-supporters-want-gay-people-barred-from-entering-america/). Classy. Real fuckin’ classy. Hey asshole, you know _why_ LGBT people tend to vote democrat? It’s because most of them haven’t internalized as much self-hatred and bullshit as you have, and aren’t interested in supporting a party that wants them to not exist. This same self-hating homophobe wants to [lead a gay pride parade](http://www.therebel.media/milo_yiannopoulos_to_lead_gay_pride_parade_through_muslim_ghetto_in_sweden). Through a Muslim ghetto in Sweden. In other words, the same stunt SD (a Swedish hard-right party) tried to pull a year ago. I’d think you need a little _pride_ for that, and Milo clearly has neither pride nor spine nor basic common decency when it comes to his sexuality, but hey, who gives a fuck, let’s abuse a symbol of inclusiveness and protest to stick it to a disaffected minority! :rolleyes: I don’t like myself very much. But this guy… Jeez. How has he not committed suicide? He clearly hates homosexuals a whole awful lot, and benig a homosexual himself, this would imply some serious self-hatred. At least the Log Cabin Republicans had the basic self-respect to condemn the republican platform. Or maybe he’s not really all that bigoted, and he’s just lying for attention. Either way, he’s a terrible fucking person. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/2 "2016-07-19T08:54:54Z")
he’s standing up against that communist scam called “intersectionality.” ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/3 "2016-07-19T09:08:27Z")
I’d say he mostly doesn’t believe much of what he says. He’s discovered a profitable niche, being a token right wing gay. He’s milking it for all its worth getting paid for his speaking tours and articles. He’s a shameless opportunist. How does he sleep at night? probably the same way that Martin Shkreli famously answered “ambien”. [https://twitter.com/martinshkreli/status/645783071019634688](https://twitter.com/martinshkreli/status/645783071019634688) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/4 "2016-07-19T10:04:19Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > he’s standing up against that communist scam called “intersectionality.” Why don’t you stop using the word \*communist \* until you learn what it means? ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/5 "2016-07-19T10:32:50Z")
…miraculously the OP doesn’t even touch on half of the disgusting and horrible things that Milo has done in the last couple of years. He was one of the central figures in the “gamergate” kerfuffle over the last couple of years and he has been both directly and indirectly been responsible for the harassment of hundreds of people. A real nasty piece of work. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/6 "2016-07-19T10:41:07Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why don’t you stop using the word \*communist \* until you learn what it means? It’s not like he knows what “intersectionality” means, either. It is the concept that one person can face multiple types of bigotry, and that different forms of bigotry are interrelated. I think he thinks it means “minorities can’t be Republican.” BTW, I could actually see a way to be a gay Republican without this bullshit. He would just disagree with the gay platform, but agree everywhere else. It’s the fact that this guy is (pretending to) agree that makes him particularly odious. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/7 "2016-07-19T10:46:43Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …miraculously the OP doesn’t even touch on half of the disgusting and horrible things that Milo has done in the last couple of years. He was one of the central figures in the “gamergate” kerfuffle over the last couple of years and he has been both directly and indirectly been responsible for the harassment of hundreds of people. A real nasty piece of work. By all means, _please_ feel free to contribute. I totally forgot he was _that_ guy. > [@BigT](#): > > BTW, I could actually see a way to be a gay Republican without this bullshit. He would just disagree with the gay platform, but agree everywhere else. It’s the fact that this guy is (pretending to) agree that makes him particularly odious. Yeah. I mean, I get the Log Cabin Republicans. I think they’re fucking idiots, but I _get_ them. They think the full package of republican policies outweighs their opposition to gay rights. But Milo doesn’t think that. He thinks the republican opposition to gay rights is a good thing. Last time I saw someone hate themselves that much, they were standing on a rooftop. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/8 "2016-07-19T11:38:28Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > he’s standing up against that communist scam called “intersectionality.” Not at all surprised to see you on the same side as a defender of white supremacists (also known as the “alt-right”). ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/9 "2016-07-19T12:00:44Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Not at all surprised to see you on the same side as a defender of white supremacists (also known as the “alt-right”). I never condoned most of the stuff he says, but he has a right to be gay and conservative, just as one can be Muslim and be a Republican. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/10 "2016-07-19T12:10:42Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > I never condoned most of the stuff he says, but he has a right to be gay and conservative, just as one can be Muslim and be a Republican. Who’s challenged his right to be gay and conservative? What do rights have to do with this conversation? ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/11 "2016-07-19T13:38:04Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > I never condoned most of the stuff he says, but he has a right to be gay and conservative, just as one can be Muslim and be a Republican. He can be gay and conservative fine, but more than that he’s trying to convince other gay people that Trump is better for them because only ‘Daddy’ Trump will protect them from all the big bad islamic terrorists. Yes he seriously refers to Trump as Daddy. Funnily enough plenty of other gay people have a problem with the idea of embracing the GOP given their recent party platform they adopted. Those people have every right to call Milo a self hating abhorrent shit stain. And they do… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/12 "2016-07-19T14:33:51Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > …miraculously the OP doesn’t even touch on half of the disgusting and horrible things that Milo has done in the last couple of years. He was one of the central figures in the “gamergate” kerfuffle over the last couple of years and he has been both directly and indirectly been responsible for the harassment of hundreds of people. A real nasty piece of work. And became the GG glowing star even after years of insulting gamers with some of the worst (albeit unoriginal) sterotypes you could imagine. And his hit pieces would have him tossed from any slef-repsecting media outlet, but hey, Brietbart. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/13 "2016-07-19T15:20:47Z")
People in general are pretty good at putting up with a lot of cognitive dissonance and compartmentalizing opposing morals, values, sexual tastes, and aspects of their personality inside their little brain. It makes me think of disgraced former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard who was preaching the evils of the things like drug use, homosexuality, adultery, etc. in front of his congregation, while having sexual relations with a male prostitute and using methamphetamines, I mean talk about living a lie. I imagine the guy must have had a lot of self-loathing and shame but apparently he was able to go about his daily life, he only admitted some of what happened after the other guy went public about it, and even then if you ever read any of Haggard’s quotes about the topic you can still read a lot of obvious self-delusion in what he says. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/14 "2016-07-19T16:16:25Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Why don’t you stop using the word \*communist \* until you learn what it means? I’m actually in favor of his continued misuse of the word communist. Not only does it demonstrate his blinding ignorance of what he’s talking about, its rather amusing that he’s ignorant of his own ignorance when trotting out the word. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/15 "2016-07-19T16:42:59Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > he’s standing up against that communist scam called “intersectionality.” Seriously, dude, every time you use that word you sound like a barely modernized version of those sour, jowly, racist assholes they manage to interview on 60 minutes back in the 80’s; the ones who would say everyone who criticuzed their hate campaigns was a ‘Com’nist hom-sexual’. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/16 "2016-07-19T18:04:39Z")
> [@DerekMichaels00](#): > > he’s standing up against that communist scam called “intersectionality.” You mean that thing feminists started over [40 years ago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality#Historical_background)? So in your mind, communists = feminists and Cold War Era issue = Gay Republican issue today. How’s life in the ol’ fallout shelter? ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/17 "2016-07-19T18:37:53Z")
Milo Yiannopoulos exists for the same reason that Donald Trump exists: he tells the lies that the right-wing extremists in the Republican Party want to hear. Also, Milo works for Breitbart. A big part of Gamergate was Breitbart ginning up anti-feminist fervor ahead of Hillary’s expected presidential campaign. It’s not a coincidence that anti-feminism is surging at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/18 "2016-07-19T18:38:07Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > They think the full package of republican policies outweighs their opposition to gay rights. But their opposition to gay rights is totally consistent with their entire philosophy. You really couldn’t have one without the other. And the really sad thing is that, to quite a few republicans, Milo Yiannopoulos is the face of gay Americans . . . well, except for us queer commies. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/19 "2016-07-19T18:44:30Z")
I think Milo Yiannopoulos exists because he gets under the skin of SJWs, and everyone loves to hate those little twerps. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/20 "2016-07-19T19:11:25Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > I think Milo Yiannopoulos exists because he gets under the skin of SJWs, and everyone loves to hate those little twerps. Like I said - he tells the lies that right-wing extremists want to hear. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298.md?page=2)