Milo's Downfall
- Don Juice
- Feb 27, 2017
- 3 min read
The professional troll known as Milo Yiannopoulous has finally trolled himself over the deep end which I thought would never happen. To be honest I don’t even like talking about him because he’s not even worth the breath that it takes to talk about him. He’s an absurd provocateur who thrives off of offending people. Its mostly SJWs who protest against him, I never really understood the hype and outrage about him. Not really sure when I first heard of him but I remember the twitter wars he would get in and the things he used to say to others and I always found him to be too asinine to respond too. The right embraced him cause he creates a paradox, he’s a gay man who loves black men but also spews out conservative ideology. The liberals who used to get upset and angry with him on these college campuses always baffled me and I actually can’t stand them either because they are willfully taking bait. The way to deal with people like this is let them talk. Eventually they’ll talk themselves right into a hole they can’t get themselves out of, and that is exactly what happened with him this week.
But the funniest part about all of this is the fact that the people who brought him down were not who you expected. You would think it was a liberal group but no, it was the same community that embraced him, The Right. This is something I always tell people, The Right are the original SJWs or what Kyle Kulinski (host of YouTube series Secular Talk) likes to call them, The Social Injustice Warriors whining about things like porn, secular values and saying happy holidays. So, when a 16 year-old Canadian girl with Libertarian views heard that Milo would be attending CPAC, she decided to find something damaging that would thwart that and she did. A July 16th podcast called Drunken Peasants in which Milo attempted to rationalize pedophilia even joking about his own child molestation experience in Catholic School. The girl then took it to a conservative blog called The Reagan Battalion and they helped elevate it on twitter which gained enough traction for Milo’s resignation from Brietbart, losing a book deal and barred from speaking at CPAC.
The girl stated “I see Milo as this embodiment of the awfulness you see over the past few years with the general tilt of millennial conservatism,” said the teen. “It’s diverged from this traditional conservatism so much. You’ve seen it essentially become full of awfulness and all about attacking the left and not about actual principles. It has nothing to do with conservative ideology so much as it has with opposing the leftists, SJWs, and so on and so forth.” This is someone who follows American politics and didn’t feel that he represented conservative values. So basically she was triggered and took action doing something liberals had failed to do for years with Milo and that was bring him to a grinding halt. In his press conference he apologized and I never seen him so serious before in my life. He claims he was being taken out of context which is nonsense when you watch the clip. There’s also a video on YouTube of him talking with Joe Rogan about going to a Hollywood gay party that had drugs and under aged boys there which is strange considering the fact he didn’t report them to the police.
My final thoughts on him is this, Milo will most likely still have fans because there’s still an active market for trolling but will he be as big league as he once was? Probably not I guess. Free Speech is wonderful no matter the political spectrum however hiding behind free speech just to offend people for triggered responses is pretty lame to me and I don’t have any real sympathy for him. If you are going to make money off of trolling and being outrageous that’s fine, but just understand you are walking a tight rope and are bound to end up doing or saying something you can’t walk back. I will leave you with a quote from what an Esquire magazine writer had to say about all this which sums up my view of Milo,
“Getting angry at Milo is like getting angry at the mannequin challenge. You can start a boycott, you can make a sign to hold at a protest, or you can wait 10 days. The brand is nothing but provocation, and provocation for its own sake is unsustainable.” - David Holmes
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