OKAY right wingers. Explain this to me. A 31-year-old gay Brit named Milo Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter this year for trolling. How can someone like him be embraced by the right wing?

Alt-righties love him because he has a caustic wit, loves to trash feminism and BLM, and he has the "shield" of being gay, so he can also trash the "identity politics" movement with relative impunity. I.e., nobody can call him homophobic, etc. He also claimed it was ridiculous to call him racist, because he has a fetish for black guys. Therefore he could lay all kinds of insults on BLM supporters and just laugh if someone called him racist. He's sort of a younger, hipper, gayer, and slightly more masculine version of Ann Coulter. He knows how to get attention, and irritate and enrage the right people, which the alt-righties love to see.

He's the darling otf the alt-right.

If you listen to him, he's a self-loathing homosexual.

You may find this amusing. It clarifies it...

Milo is a disgusting human being.  I believe he does this to get attention and to capitalize on being controversial.

OMG! What a disgusting thing he is. Maybe it's because I'm an old dame and old-fashioned but this critter is an insult to LGBT folks in my opinion. I am honestly nonplussed and I think by you know that never happens. I think he is LOATHSOME!  That our species has fallen so low as to celebrate a creep like this is very sad. Thank you for the info Rpf. I  just read the Time article today. I had NO IDEA people like this existed let alone were celebrated/admired/tolerated. Good gosh what else is out there about which I know nothing?  :(

I CAN'T STEND it GJ! Why such a piece of human garbage such as this is celebrated I cannot guess but it leads me to utter despair. How many out there condone/support/join in?  No wonder the country is in such dire straights. It is the haters who have orchestrated all of it . Thank you for your reply and the video! I appreciate both my friend!  :)

I wrote a statement about Milo Yiannopoulos, but I doubt anyone read it. He wrote it for Breitbart, the publication which Stephen Bannon was chairman. Stephen Brannon is now Trump's CEO. So he took a leave from Brietbart.
1. He is gay, a "cultural libertarian"(nationalist, white supremacist) and free speech fundamentalist (hates political correctness).
2. He is a journalist, British, age 31, white male.
3. Critic of feminism, atheism, Islam, social justice (racist), and political correctness, and anything else he feels like criticizing.
4. Milo writes for Breitbart. Breitbart is a tabloid type publication like the "Enquirer". It appeals to an audience that enjoys reading about scandals and conspiracy theories. It is sold by grocery store checkouts, so people probably pick it up as just something to read. Most people don't take it seriously. They have been sued many times for making up stories. So it isn't reliable.
5. I think it is just a way of making lots of money publishing imagined stories, which are easier than having to check sources. It's like writing for comic books, Mad Magazine, and other magazines.
6. Recently Milo was kicked out of Twitter for orchestrating racial attacks on comedian/actress, Leslie Jones. So he was permanently banned. He had already been warned many times for this kind of conduct.
7. He hasn't just gotten attention. He is a famous Tech writer.

I used to follow him on Twitter, and watched some of his talks. He is an engaging speaker, and eloquent, I'll give him that. Very entertaining, though I don't agree with much of what he says.

 You must have a very strong stomach. I don't. Thank you for your reply Rpf.

 If you mean you wrote a blog I never read them Marguerite. Thank you for your thoughtful and informative reply. I am very new to this abomination. I subscribe to Time Magazine and just got around to reading the newest  issue. I am distraught/disturbed/disgusted. I cannot absorb it. I cannot understand why ANYONE would defend/support these people let alone participate and celebrate them. It is horrendous to think that the America I love is becoming an America I do not recognize. Based on hate.   Happy Friday.

Once he hopped on the Trump train, I really started to see how completely bankrupt his rhetoric was.

WHO CARES.

I think within any group of people there are many varieties of sub-types.

We are often accustomed to thinking of those who are right-wing politically as also being morally conservative, possibly religious, and possibly white-supremacist. But this is not necessarily so. Each of these is in its own set, and sometimes the sets interlink to varying degrees, so that any one person could have their feet in any one or more of the sets, or dance around in them all.

When I first came to the Tweed Valley, which has about 85% conservative farmers versus 15% hippies, greenies and alternatives (my types), I expected to be surrounded by too many rednecks and feeling potentially isolated. There was a cafe in the local village run by a pair of gay guys from the inner city of Sydney. It was gorgeous. High quality original post-modernist artworks on the walls. Nouvelle cuisine on the menu. Excellent coffee and friendly service.

I asked a farmer neighbour (cattle mega-baron, far right voter)  what he thought of the gay guys in the cafe. He replied, "I don't give a damn what they do in private, so long as they don't try to stick it up me." So I think that demonstrates that right wingers may not always be as bigotted as we imagine them to be.

After that, I had to question myself as to whether I was the one with too many preconceptions and biases about right-wingers.

:)

I tried to find your statement on Yiannopoulos but couldn't. Perhaps it was some time ago. Is there any way I can read it?

Let me be as polite as I can be since this is your default answer  Sharonna. I CARE. If I didn't I would not ask the question. Others EXCLUDING YOU  care or they would not respond to the question. I don't care that you don't care and you do not need to inform me of that. Just ignore the question. Can you do that? This proclivity of yours for sharing how little you care about things is very odd. I hope you knock it off.

I'll be truthful...I've trolled his Youtube videos quite frequently...THERE! I said it.

His followers make it to easy. lol

I too, used to subscribe to him.  As a gay man...let me clarify that...as being a human being, I find him to be an obnoxiously hateful, awful person.

I suggest you educate yourself as to just who is this individual, and what he does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos

Great answer.  I wish everyone would have that kind of thought process.

Here's an interesting observation... I live in the rural, upstate portion of New Hampshire.  I've traveled guite extensively in the US and abroad.   tbh...I've not experienced RW extremism and bigotry personally anywhere else as I have experienced in my region.  I'm not saying everyone up here is like that  or that type of behaviour doesn't exist in other places. I haven't traveled everywhere, but it's based on my own experiences.

I'm ashamed to say that Australia has in the last 15 years demonstrated an increase in racist bigotry.

Most strongly exemplified by the re-election of One Nation and Pauline Hanson to the House of Representatives.

Also by the behaviour of both main parties colluding to create off-shore concentration camps for asylum-seekers and refugees who came by boat.

Also the treatment of Aboriginals in general, and in detention for misdemeanours, particularly youths.

The rest of the time, most of us get along very well as a multicultural society.

But there are very small neo-nazi groups, and when Hansen is around they all come out of hiding and start doing horrifying things.

Many of us are fighting back - and we do have a good chance of undoing the damage.

This week the end of the camps was announced, and now the job is to find homes for them - although the govt, still says it must be in other countries.

Thanks, Del.

That was exactly the reference I needed. Should have googled it before.

I read it through in detail. Hadn't heard of him before yesterday.

Having read it I would describe him as probably a narcissist-sociopath.

It strikes me that he could not possibly be Catholic unless he goes to confession every day - in which case his actions do not show sincere repentance and do not merit the church's granting of divine forgiveness.

I think he has a genius for fraud of all kinds, and so not one word can be taken as sincere - unless it is uttered as a backstreet casual yes in the dark.

I think he has chosen and created his stance in order to play the role of public and professional troll. He's revelling in the attention. One day the consequences will come back to bite him in the... - He will go too far and cop the law.

And although I would rarely say this about anyone, I would like to see him permanently mired in slime, probably with hands tied behind his back and a mouth gag - released once every two hours for 5 supervised minutes for essential life functions.

There. Everyone just met my dark side. Sorry.

Still, stand by what I said in my first post to this question.

Maybe you missed the part where so many more people despise him.

Which part did you find Milo owning Rogan? Surely you're not referring to the portion where Rogan called him out on his ambiguously convoluted views on homosexuality.

I don't know what nationality you are Oster, but if you're a Brit, would you please keep him over there and tell him to stop meddling in US affairs. Thanks.

It's my opinion that your commentary was meant to seem as though you are delighted that I inadvertantly provided you with new information as a dig.  I believe, you are more familiar with him than you state.   Cheers!

I didn't read it Marguerite, sorry.

Your comment is greatly appreciated...

Several points you missed:

He has orchestrated a campaign of stalking, cyber bullying, and shaming actress Leslie Jones.

Not only was he kicked off of Twitter, he stalked and harassed the Twitter table at the RNC so much that security was required to come and remove him, but the amusing part is...He's not an American.

He only says what he does for fame and riches. I don't believe he believes evrything he says. 

When he was finally banned from Twitter, that was when I lost any respect for him. Before that, even though I didn't agree with him, I thought he was OK; he seemed to be making some valid critiques about the status quo. After the ban, I thought, he can claim that he "doesn't control his followers" all he likes, he knows exactly how Twitter works, and how his fans work. Just another demagogue exploiting white middle class rage that they're on the verge of becoming, if not irrelevant, not the only thing that's relevant.

The right doesn't embrace him, though, at least not so much in the U.S. Not from what I have seen. He's like their regretful butt monkey. Many on the right are embarrassed to have Milo aboard. I think it's fantastic though. Don't get me wrong; I hate Milo with every cell in my body. But the fact that he claims to be some golden child of the right wing despite the fact that he deliberately flouts many right wing stereotypes (and makes many right wingers queasy) is excellent for those of us on the Left. It shows what happens when the Right tries to stray from its straight, white, Christian constituency. They have an "undesirable" among them and many of them don't know how to react. 

mmmm - I think you are correct that the middle class are getting squeezed out of their formerly comfortable positions, falling a few notches down, and don't like the loss.