You didn’t think it’d be that easy, did you?
Milo was a fast-rising star with the GOP. He had it all— vile, racist, misogynist, Jewish-bashing, immigrant-hating, transphobic, self-hating neo-Nazi. All that and now pedophilia champion too!
Breitbart promotions, book deals, and the keynote address at CPAC, because THIS hot mess was to be the face of the new GOP.
But CPAC was shocked--SHOCKED--to learn that Milo was an awful person.
He defended child rape pretty fiercely:
But in the tape, the fast-talking polemicist is clear that he has no problem with older men abusing children as young as 13, which he then conflates with relationships between older and younger gay men who are of consenting age.
“No, no, no. You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means,” Mr. Yiannopoulos says on the tape, in which he is talking to radio hosts in a video chat. “Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty,” he adds, dismissing the fact that 13-year-olds are children.
The notion of consent, he says, is “arbitrary and oppressive.”
Anyone who at anytime refers to the rape of a child as “arbitrary and oppressive” is a despicable human being. There is no defending this.
And yet thousands of republicans are taking to twitter to do just that.
They are pissed—at us—for dragging him down and the “cuckservatives” who aren’t fighting for him.
I won’t link to any of them, you can just go to #Milo or #StandWithMilo and see what I’m talking about. Milo himself has been one whiny ass #snowflake over this---almost puts Trump to shame. (If he had any.)
The many defenses that Milo’s supporters are trying to use are as deplorable as they are, but can generally be put in five buckets:
- At some point in time some liberal must have done it, so what’s the big deal?
- Where was the outrage over #pizzagate? (seriously, this fake news story won’t die)
- It’s okay cuz free speech (Unless you are insulting Trump or Milo, then you’d better shut up)
- Various semantic word games (13-year olds cannot give consent. PERIOD.)
- It’s okay because he’s my favorite neo-Nazi pedophile
Regarding that last one:
CPAC, take a note: If you are drawing a line in the sand over the rape of a 13-year old, then you might want to consider disinviting Donald Trump as well.
You might ask yourself if there is anything that a person whom the rightwing likes can say or do that they won’t defend. The answer is no. If you can accept the concept of child rape, you can accept anything. (PS—f*** you Mike Huckabee)
The republicans sold their soul a long time before they ever nominated a sexual assaulter to be their leader or when neo-Nazis took over their party. I knew they were lost three years ago, when 20 kids were brutally slaughtered at an elementary school and the republicans said: What about the poor gun in all of this?
The republicans stood silent on Sandy Hook, except for the ones who harassed the poor families of the dead children. If you were waiting for republican outrage over that, you’d probably have to wait until one of their favorite hateful speakers would speak out in favor of molesting them.
This new kind of republican isn’t going to be dissuaded by your petty concerns about human decency. Milo is outrageous and vile, and getting banned from CPAC only raises his stature to these people. Remember, Trump was banned last year and now he’s head of the whole thing. Do you recall when the racism and the violent threats got so bad that Milo was actually deemed too racist for Twitter? (Too racist ….for Twitter?! ) That’s the very moment that Milo became the conservative superstar and got the attention he was always craving. The only silver lining to that was how pathetic Ann Coulter had become when she realized that no one was paying attention to her anymore.
It’s not just the Trump trolls defending Milo, but conservative leaders as well. Already, the editor of the National Review, Rich Lowry, called the disinvite a “Colossal misjudgment" and ranted: “Now CPAC has put itself in the role of ‘censor.’ And for what? Some clicks and headlines?”
No, this new revelation on Milo’s character will not destroy him because of who his key audience is. Sorry folks, the only thing that is going to destroy Milo is when someone comes along who is more hateful and disgusting than he is.
And that’s only if they don’t make him president first.