Milo Yiannopoulos works at Breitbart, the extremist right wing site White House adviser Steve Bannon sat up. Bannon made Yiannapoulos the celebrity he now is. Yiannopoulos has been the gay alibi for an otherwise intolerant and bigoted community.



Milo attacked people of color, ridiculed feminists, and invalidated transgender people. He argued on Breitbart that “birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.”

The only response he got from the so-called “Conservative” establishment was support. They essentially attacked those fighting him for undermining free speech, as did Trump on twitter. Yiannopoulos was even invited to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Then a video surfaced in which he condones sexual relations with boys as young as 13. Suddenly CPAC cancels his performance. His publisher cancels his upcoming book. Employees at Breitbart want him out.

Trans thinker and activist Julia Serano points out the irony:

I have no problems with any of these groups refusing to tolerate Yiannopoulos’s comment. And I have no qualms with their decisions to “no platform” him over this issue. But I do want to point out that, by drawing the line there, the American Conservative Union, Simon & Schuster, Kurt Eichenwald, and others, are implicitly saying that EVERYTHING ELSE that Yiannopoulos has done up until this point – his long history of blatant racism, misogyny, and transphobia, and his penchant for doxxing, harassing, and intimidating marginalized individuals online and during his talks – all of that is a-okay. Absolutely tolerable. Within the boundaries of normal discourse, in their eyes.



Remember this the next time these bigots play the free speech card.

And do you what else is truly tragic in this horrible affair? Yiannopoulos has managed to strengthen the association between being gay and being a child molester. That won’t help the transgender struggle either.

We have a word for people like Yiannopoulos in the country where I come from: Quisling.