Today is the 39th birthday of Milo Yiannopoulos, a social influencer whose trajectory is significant in the recent evolution of US politics. From NewgonWiki:
"Milo Yiannopoulos (born Milo Hanrahan, 18 October 1984) is a British media influencer (banned Twitter account @Nero) and online alt-lite personality known for his role in #Gamergate, ridiculing of feminism and 'regressive' leftism, and further controversies surrounding his views on pederasty. Prior to the adverse publicity, his career peaked in the lead-up to Donald Trump's election as US President -- with his contributions as editor of Breitbart News being almost entirely limited to American alternative-right politics, prior to the MAGA movement's takeover by social conservatives.
"In February 2017, a social media controversy took place concerning video clips in which Yiannopoulos said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can be 'perfectly consensual' and positive experiences for the boys. Yiannopoulos subsequently resigned from his position at Breitbart, his invitation to speak before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was revoked, and a contract to publish his autobiography with Simon & Schuster was cancelled.
"Milo's cancelling was a symbolic moment in the neutralization of any remaining cultural libertarianism in the alt-lite and MAGA movement, which has since mainstreamed itself as a new moral majority -- for example, enabling 'groomer' rhetoric and campaigns against queer literature."
Milo's controversial statements were based on his own experience: "There are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger."
It's sad that Milo turned out to be a grifter who lacked the integrity even to defend the truth of his own youthful experiences when this started to lose him followers. For me it's poignant since, when I had barely heard of him, it was he who, by writing about its funding crisis due to ideological censorship, resurrected Cassie Jaye's The Red Pill, an impartial documentary about the men's human rights movement made in the same fly-on-the-wall style as her previous features, Daddy I Do and The Right to Love, which unlike TRP were praised by feminists and progressives generally because they conformed to their ideological expectations.
Sources: https://www.newgon.net/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos
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