# 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:** 34
**Author:** ![Jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jefferson)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/661 "2017-02-26T10:15:15Z")
The totalitarian Left are always trying to close down free speech. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/662 "2017-02-26T10:26:53Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > The totalitarian Left are always trying to close down free speech. You’re dumb as hell. Did you know that? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/663 "2017-02-26T11:57:59Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > The totalitarian Left are always trying to close down free speech. You are so getting banned for that. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/664 "2017-02-26T16:32:51Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > [https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right-629a77e87986#.5pc6iwrnd](https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right-629a77e87986#.5pc6iwrnd) That’s quite a nice piece. I think the author does a pretty good job of articulating how Yiannopoulos relied for so long on his outrageous and trolling statements being taken seriously by his audience, but when he finally went too far for even the alt-right, he tried to save himself by appealing to his penchant for sarcasm and provocation. He built his whole persona and his fame and fortune on being willing to say whatever people would pay to hear, whether he himself believed it or not, but when he went too far, he couldn’t defend himself without drawing back the curtain and revealing the charade he’d be engaged in. The real tragedy here, as the author recognizes, is not the fall of Yiannopoulos; it’s that, whether or not he believed his hateful rhetoric, it still had real-world consequences. And, as also became clear, his whole rise to fame was never, for the right, really about free speech at all; it was about “making it OK to say racist, sexist, transphobic, and xenophobic things, about tolerating the public expression of those views right up to the point where it becomes financially unwise to do so.” ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/665 "2017-02-26T16:55:59Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > The totalitarian Left are always trying to close down free speech. When it comes to the alt-right it is never about free speech at all. It’s about making it OK to say racist, sexist, trans-phobic, and xenophobic things. It’s about the alt-right attempt to make the public expression of these views acceptable. P.S.: Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/666 "2017-02-26T17:00:40Z")
> [@Jefferson](#): > > The totalitarian Left are always trying to close down free speech. Well no, son. The right just thinks there should be zero consequences for _their_ speech. And ONLY their speech. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/667 "2017-02-27T02:35:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Well no, son. The right just thinks there should be zero consequences for _their_ speech. And ONLY their speech. True, I for one, am real sick and tired of this “alt right” talk, I think it is time we call them exactly what they are… Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/668 "2020-12-12T14:42:08Z")
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/669 "2020-12-12T14:49:47Z")
I don’t know how to interpret a glaring white dude in a Santa hat saying “I will have vengeance” except as the start of a holiday-themed slasher flick. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/670 "2020-12-12T15:23:07Z")
You mean like [this movie](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-so-bad-you-had-to-keep-watching/925848/92)? ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/671 "2020-12-12T15:25:37Z")
Sweet Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/672 "2020-12-12T15:34:49Z")
My new Christmas tradition. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/673 "2020-12-12T17:47:30Z")
I don’t get the, uh, tweet(?) about SCOTUS. How did they fail in a way that has changed Milo’s opinion of the GOP? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/674 "2020-12-12T19:02:40Z")
SCOTUS refused to hear the Texas case yesterday ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/675 "2020-12-12T19:38:14Z")
SCOTUS followed the law instead of supporting Trump. In today’s GOP, where the official party plank is “whatever Donald wants,” that’s heresy. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/676 "2020-12-13T05:03:59Z")
But then he calls Trump a clown, so he appears to have given up on Trump because SCOTUS didn’t back him (Trump) up. I must be missing another tweet some where. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/677 "2020-12-13T05:20:06Z")
I can’t tell if he’s upset he defended “selfish clown” Trump, or “selfish clown” Brett Kavanaugh? ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/678 "2020-12-13T06:00:58Z")
Ah, maybe that’s it, although Milo seems to have washed his hands of Trump. Maybe it’s not supposed to make sense. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/679 "2020-12-13T06:11:54Z")
Mission accomplished: 3 year dormant thread revived. People talking about him again. Trolls gotta troll. Attention whores gotta whore for attention. Who cares what any of it means, if anything? When is Ann Coulter gonna pop back up? She’s been quiet for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298/680 "2020-12-13T06:16:03Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > But then he calls Trump a clown, so he appears to have given up on Trump because SCOTUS didn’t back him (Trump) up. I must be missing another tweet some where. I think he’s pissed at Trump for appointing three of those SCOTUS guys who then didn’t back Trump up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-milo-yiannopoulos-exist-exactly/760298.md?page=35)