# 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:** 2
**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, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/21 "2016-07-19T19:15:45Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Like I said - he tells the lies that right-wing extremists want to hear. Or, he tells truths that left-wing extremists _don’t_ want to hear and then makes fun of them when they wig out, which is always good value for money 😃 ---
**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, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/22 "2016-07-19T19:21:12Z")
Yeah, that’s probably it. Everyone knows that Breitbart prides themselves on their intellectual honesty. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/23 "2016-07-19T19:22:08Z")
He’s white, he’s male and he’s successful. There’s 3 reasons to be right of center. He’s gay. There’s a reason to be left of center. 3-1, it’s not hard to figure out. ---
**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, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/24 "2016-07-19T19:28:19Z")
Milo is also a “poet”. Chris Kluwe did a live tweet with photos from one of Milo’s book of collected works: [https://storify.com/athenahollow/chris-kluwe-and](https://storify.com/athenahollow/chris-kluwe-and) ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/25 "2016-07-19T19:31:34Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Yeah, that’s probably it. Everyone knows that Breitbart prides themselves on their intellectual honesty. Yiannopoulos may be wrong 90% of the time, but those rare times SJWs cry when he’s right make it all worthwhile. ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/26 "2016-07-19T19:31:39Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > I think Milo Yiannopoulos exists because he gets under the skin of SJWs, and everyone loves to hate those little twerps. Like doing hit pieces on anyone he decides he doesn’t like? I suppose that is one method to get ‘under someone’s skin’, but then again so is using a filleting knife. ---
**Author:** ![elliott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@elliott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elliott)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/27 "2016-07-19T20:21:01Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Or, he tells truths that left-wing extremists _don’t_ want to hear and then makes fun of them when they wig out, which is always good value for money 😃 What truths exactly does milo share with SJWs? ---
**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, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/28 "2016-07-19T20:25:55Z")
> [@elliott](#): > > What truths exactly does milo share with SJWs? For example, the fact that the tired canard about women earning 78 cents for every dollar a man makes is misleading and disingenuous. ---
**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, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/29 "2016-07-19T20:30:54Z")
AAAAAAnnnndddd - there’s the anti-feminism that I said Milo & Breitbart are promoting. ---
**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, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/30 "2016-07-19T20:34:09Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > AAAAAAnnnndddd - there’s the anti-feminism that I said Milo & Breitbart are promoting. Sorry, but it’s true. ---
**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, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/31 "2016-07-19T20:35:30Z")
Oh, yeah, that ‘old canard’ [that happens to be true!](http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/) Its just like that old canard about not stepping on rusty nails! SJWs just hate that one!! ---
**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, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/32 "2016-07-19T20:37:21Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Sorry, but it’s true. Sorry yourself, dude. But if the wage gap is a myth then it wasn’t shown to be that way by anything Milo ever wrote. You’re talking about a guy who uses Encylopedia Dramatica as a source. ---
**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, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/33 "2016-07-19T20:42:17Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Oh, yeah, that ‘old canard’ [that happens to be true!](http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/) > Its just like that old canard about not stepping on rusty nails! SJWs just hate that one!! Your own link debunks you. _“That’s the trouble with just using the 78 cents statistic: it doesn’t take into account job choice, education, experience, tenure or hours worked.”_ The article then goes on to compare different professions but _again_, doesn’t control for hours worked, maternity, holidays, different choices in benefits etc… Here’s a better article: [The ‘Wage Gap’ Myth That Just Won’t Die](http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-1443654408). Also, if it were true that a business owner could get away with paying women less than men _for the same work_, why would any business owner _ever_ hire a man? He’d effectively be imposing a 22% tax _on himself_ in exchange for absolutely no tangible benefit whatsoever. ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/34 "2016-07-19T20:43:40Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Sorry yourself, dude. But if the wage gap is a myth then it wasn’t shown to be that way by anything Milo ever wrote. Who cares? So someone else wrote it. What difference does that make? > [@Mr. Miskatonic](#): > > You’re talking about a guy who uses Encylopedia Dramatica as a source. For articles on the wage gap? Cite please. ---
**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/35 "2016-07-19T20:51:25Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Your own link debunks you. If you only read the parts you want to hear, sure it does. Not a surprisising action from a Milo fan. THe worst you can say about ‘78 cents’ is that it is superficial, but drill down and the situation gets even worse. If you think that is you winning, welll, have another drink Mr. Sheen. ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/36 "2016-07-19T20:59:24Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Your own link debunks you. > > _“That’s the trouble with just using the 78 cents statistic: it doesn’t take into account job choice, education, experience, tenure or hours worked.”_ The fact that all of those things negatively impact a woman’s earning power are examples of sexism in the work force. When men take their fair share of time off for childcare and suffer the same impacts from trying to juggle work and family, the wage gap would decrease. The wage gap is not primarily about sexists deciding that women are worth less - although it would foolish to insist that sexism never exists. The wage gap reflects the way that men dump the burden of daily life onto womens’ shoulders and also how society rewards the men for doing so. That’s one of the big reasons that so many “family values” assholes and just sexist assholes, like Milo, are against extended family care for men and women both. They want to reinforce society norms that let them shift the burden of family life to the women. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/37 "2016-07-19T20:59:36Z")
Anyone remember that black woman who really seriously wanted to be an officer within the KKK? Circa 1998 or thereabouts. ETA: [found it](http://articles.philly.com/1997-04-28/news/25530759_1_white-supremacist-white-power-klanwatch) ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/38 "2016-07-19T21:00:08Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > If you only read the parts you want to hear, sure it does. Not a surprisising action from a Milo fan. > > THe worst you can say about ‘78 cents’ is that it is superficial, but drill down and the situation gets even worse. If you think that is you winning, welll, have another drink Mr. Sheen. Nope. Drill down and the situation gets better. If you control for hours worked, choice of major, choice of career, amount of holiday taken, maternity leave, propensity for dangerous (and, therefore, higher paying) work and about a million other things the wage gap almost disappears. Also, as I said before, if it were true that a business owner could get away with paying women less than men _for the same work_, why would any business owner _ever_ hire a man? He’d effectively be imposing a 22% tax _on himself_ in exchange for absolutely no tangible benefit whatsoever. ---
**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, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/39 "2016-07-19T21:00:09Z")
[quote=“Tithonus, post:34, topic:760298”] Who cares? So someone else wrote it. What difference does that make? /?QUOTE] Because you seem to be singing the praises with a psychopath discguised as a reporter and you love him because he sometimes annoys a group you are not fond of. This is like praising a crazy guy in your neighborhood who shits on everyone’s lawns but you sing his praises because he sometimes shits on the lawn of that neighbor you don’t like (who is also upwind). > [@](#): > > For articles on the wage gap? Cite please. No, not over the wage gap. It was his extended attack pieces on someone he decided he didn’t like. ---
**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, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/40 "2016-07-19T21:02:59Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > Nope. Drill down and the situation gets better. If you control for hours worked, choice of major, choice of career, amount of holiday taken, maternity leave, propensity for dangerous (and, therefore, higher paying) work and about a million other things the wage gap almost disappears. And when things even out they still find a gap. My link showed as much. But this is not GD. Go start a thread there if you want. This is about what an utter psychopathic shitheel Milo is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298.md?page=3)