Milo Yiannopoulos

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Milo Yiannopoulos (2014)

Milo Yiannopoulos (born October 18, 1984 ) is a British journalist , entrepreneur and blogger . He was best known as a former editor of the US portal Breitbart and as a supporter of Donald Trump's election campaign .

Life

Yiannopoulos grew up in the south of England , in the county of Kent , as the son of a Greek and a British woman and is Catholic . He studied at the University of Manchester , but left the university without a degree. He then studied English literature for two years at Wolfson College , Cambridge. He also left Cambridge without a degree.

After working for the Catholic Herald and the Daily Telegraph , Yiannopoulos founded the online technology magazine The Kernel in 2011 and served as its editor-in-chief . He sold the company to The Daily Dot Media in 2014 . Until the end of February 2017, he was the managing editor of Breitbart News .

The homosexual Yiannopoulos was considered to be the founder of the Gays for Trump election campaign in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election in the United States .

After the Orlando attack on June 12, 2016 , he appeared in a bathtub of pig's blood during an action in New York City and stated that it was the blood of innocent people killed by illegal immigrants. At the beginning of May 2019, the company Facebook permanently blocked Yiannopoulos' user account.

Positions

Opposition to homosexuality

Although he is openly gay, he stated, "gay rights have made us dumber" and gays should go "back to the chamber ". He described gays as "abnormal" and homosexuality as "a choice that brings [gay people] pain and unhappiness."

In an interview with Joe Rogan (2015), Yiannopoulos said, “If I could vote, I would be straight.” When asked if he was ready to break free from homosexuality, Yiannopoulos replied, “Well, it would be suicide for mine Career, but I would probably do it, yes. "

In 2017, he criticized Pope Francis for his liberal worldview and the associated attempt to reach homosexuals, and added that the best media advice he could give Francis was to keep quiet. In the interview, he confirmed his belief that homosexuality was a sin and condemned those (including the clergy ) who tried to change the church's dogma on the matter.

Kevin D. Williamson argued in the National Review that Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart London had done more to put the homosexual camp in the service of right-wing authoritarianism than anyone since the Hugo Boss staff sewed all these ingenious SS uniforms would have.

"Lesbians are not real"

Yiannopoulos keeps saying he doesn't believe in lesbians. He sells T-shirts that say "Lesbians Are Not Real" and claims on his website that lesbians are confused straight women.

Transgender

“[Equal Rights Title IX] is used to bring men into women's bathrooms. I've met some authentic ["passing"] trannies in my life ... that is, transgender people who pass for the gender they'd like to be [...] The way you can tell he fails is that I almost always do would still fuck. It's just ... it's just a man in a dress, isn't it? I should apply my lipstick again. "

- Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Yiannopoulos is known for transphobic slurs and for spreading hateful rhetoric in universities and among the general public. He claims transgender people are mentally ill and are gay men who wrap themselves in women's clothing to attract attention. In his opinion, one should never feel bad about mocking a transgender person. At the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee he attacked a transgender student by name from the stage after he was able to perform there despite previous protests and warnings to the university management. This was sharply condemned by the university management.

Controversy

The Dangerous Fagot Tour

At the end of 2015, Yiannopoulos began a series of lectures at British and US universities under the title The Dangerous Fagot Tour ("The Tour of the Dangerous Fagot "), which received a lot of media attention. The presentations were accompanied by protests at the Universities of Rutgers , University of Minnesota , DePaul and University of California, Los Angeles .

In these events, he has about calling Hillary Clinton a "Kriegshetzerin" and "ultimate crybaby." If they'll president, America would be flooded by economic migrants such as Germany and Sweden, which by refugees to "rape Central Europe" has become. Donald Trump he called as “Daddy” and “the most wonderful presidential candidate there has ever been.” He assumes that everyone in the room will vote for Trump, to whom there is no alternative.

Some of its scheduled events have been canceled. After the protests in Minnesota, professors there stood up for the defense of free speech. The President of DePaul apologized to Yiannopoulos after the lecture in Chicago , criticized the protesting students and defended the right to freedom of expression on the university premises.

On February 1, 2017, violent clashes broke out ahead of an announced speech by Yiannopoulos on the campus of the University of Berkeley ; Some of the masked people who protested against it set fires and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the police officers present, who were supposed to secure the appearance. The gig was finally canceled for security reasons. Trump then questioned the university's state funding on Twitter .

Notice of termination at Breitbart News after allegedly supporting pedophilia

In February 2017, the allegation was made that Yiannopoulos had justified sexual abuse of minors and pedophilia in an interview in early 2016 . In the Drunken Peasants podcast , he is said to have advocated that 13-year-old boys should have the opportunity to gain sexual experience with men, since they too could have consensual intercourse with older men. "The arbitrary and suppressive idea of consensuality is the real problem," said Yiannopoulos. In the video distributed by The Reagan Battalion blog , he also said that pedophilia does not exist when men are attracted to sexually mature children, only when if they had not yet entered puberty . The publishing house Simon & Schuster then removed Yiannopoulos' book Dangerous , which had been announced for June 2017, from the program, and the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), who had invited Yiannopoulos as a speaker, invited him The editor-in-chief of Breitbart News, Alex Marlow, called Yiannopoulos' words on his radio show as indefensible and appalling, and other authors threatened to leave the portal if Yiannopoulos did not leave.

In a Facebook entry, Yiannopoulos regretted his statement and expressed his "absolute disgust for adults who abuse minors"; he himself was a victim of sexual abuse by a clergyman . On February 21, 2017, Yiannopoulos resigned from his position as editor at Breitbart News. In a statement, he said his poor choice of words should not interfere with important reporting from his colleagues.

reception

Wired UK monthly included him in their 2012 list of the hundred most influential people in the UK digital economy.

In 2013/14, Yiannopoulos became known to a wider public through his comment on the “Gamergate” controversy, in which he complained about the politicization of the computer game industry by an “army of sociopathic, feminist programmers”. In June 2016, his Twitter account was banned for life. He has also been banned from Facebook and Instagram.

In May 2016, Yiannopoulos called cultural libertarian ( "cultural libertarian") and defenders of freedom of speech and criticized Political Correctness , the feminism , the Islam and other movements and ideologies, which he described as authoritarian and left reactionary designated. The social justice propagated by the left is wrong. In February 2017, Yiannopoulos described himself as the "most fabulous supervillain on the internet" ("greatest villain on the internet"); Critics called him "purveyor of hate speech" ("propagator of hate speech ").

Media such as Zeit Online or the Tagesspiegel described him in early 2017 as the “ alt-right posterboy” or “star” of this movement and as a “self-proclaimed fundamentalist of freedom of speech”, whose critics accuse him of misogyny and racism, among other things. His verbal brutality was also expressed in open anti-Semitism and anti-Islamism and made him an icon of the ultra-conservatives. In October 2016, the star summed up that his journalistic home would be a “center for free speech” according to his own statement, something that people were really interested in: “Freedom, love, sex, death, money and porn”.

The FAZ editor Oliver Georgi wrote in November 2016 that Yiannopoulos was atomizing all categories of morality by breaking every taboo under the guise of freedom of expression; ultimately he wanted to destroy the ruling system, including the moral one. He is not in spite of, but because of this controversial attitude on the Internet as a star. His YouTube channel has more than a quarter of a million subscribers.

Paula-Irene Villa valued him in February 2017 of the time , among other things as a protégé of Steve Bannon and as the pop-cultural face of the extreme right in the United States. "Yiannopoulos gives the angry young white men visibility and validity without being 'angry' themselves," says Villa. He doesn't seem to have any emotions at all - apart from ironic cynicism and arrogant glee. Exactly this coolness is the central performative punch line of his successful political depoliticization comedy show.

After his resignation from Breitbart-News in February 2017, Sebastian Moll said in the Berliner Zeitung that the apparent contradictions of Yiannopoulos had fascinated America. After justifying the sexual abuse of minors, however, he crossed a limit; that went too far even for the right-wing populist rebels, for whom attacks on feminists and women in general, claims that transsexuality is a mental disorder, as well as his plea for traditional gender roles and his attacks even on homosexuals as a group were acceptable.

Billionaire Robert Mercer , who was a major supporter of Trump's presidential campaign, said in a policy statement in early November 2017 that he had supported Yiannopoulos in the hope of promoting freer expression. He, Mercer, was wrong about him; Yiannopoulos' remarks would have rather contributed to the split.

Individual evidence

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  5. ↑ Milo Yiannopoulos: I dropped out of Manchester and Cambridge but it's honestly fine. In: thetab.com. February 13, 2015, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  6. ^ The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos - how a shallow actor played the bad guy for money. In: The Guardian , February 21, 2017
  7. ↑ Charles Arthur: The Kernel sued by former contributors for non-payment. In: The Guardian . August 11, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  8. ^ Charles Arthur: The Kernel to close as debts stay unpaid. In: The Guardian . August 11, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
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  15. ↑ Milo Yiannopoulos: Sorry Papa, but Daddy Trump is the one defending catholics from invaders. In: Breitbart News . February 22, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Robert Pausch: Young, gay, right-wing radical? In: FAZ.net , March 5, 2017, accessed on March 9, 2017
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  19. ↑ Welt.de: Facebook blocks accounts of ultra-right commentators
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  21. ↑ LESS THAN NERO “Why I'll probably never be a parent” By Milo Yiannopoulos. July 14, 2011, accessed January 31, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Comedian explodes on 'self-loathing' gay conservative who wants to be straight: Face it, 'you are gay as f * ck!' In: Raw Story. October 1, 2015, accessed January 31, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Gay columnist claims he would 'cure' his homosexuality if he could. In: PinkNews.co.uk. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Milo Yiannopoulos trash-talks pope in Catholic magazine interview. In: Vox.com. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
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  26. ↑ Milo Yiannopoulos claims lesbians are 'confused straight women'. In: PinkNews.co.uk. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  27. ↑ a b University ignored warnings about far-right speaker, leaving him free to bully trans student on stage. In: PinkNews.co.uk. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Gay internet troll Milo Yiannopoulos goes on transphobic tour of America. In: PinkNews.co.uk. Accessed January 31, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Jessica Chasmar: Rutgers students smear fake blood on themselves to protest Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos. In: The Washington Times . February 10, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  30. ^ Maura Lerner: Conservative pundit draws protesters at the University of Minnesota. In: Star Tribune . February 17, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  31. ↑ Eugene Volokh: Speech by conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos shut down by protesters at DePaul - police and security do not intervene. In: The Washington Post . May 25, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Eric Zorn: Milo Yiannopoulos protesters at DePaul only make Trump's message stronger. In: Chicago Tribune . May 31, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
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  35. ↑ Susan Svrluga: Milo speech at U-Md. canceled because security fee was too high; supporters call it censorship. In: Washington Post . October 25, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
  36. ^ Dale Carpenter: Top Minnesota faculty committee backs free speech resolution. In: Washington Post . March 11, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
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  45. ^ The 96 hours that brought down Milo Yiannopoulos. In: washingtonpost.com , February 21, 2017
  46. ^ A b Pro-Trump provocateur Yiannopoulos leaves Breitbart News. In: Tagesspiegel , February 22, 2017
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  66. ↑ Trump financier withdraws. In: faz.net
  67. ↑ Conservative Megadonor Robert Mercer Is Stepping Down As CEO of His Massive Hedge Fund. Read His Full Statement. In: fortune.com . Quote: I supported Milo Yiannopoulos in the hope and expectation that his expression of views contrary to the social mainstream and his spotlighting of the hypocrisy of those who would close down free speech in the name of political correctness would promote the type of open debate and freedom of thought that is being throttled on many American college campuses today. But in my opinion, actions of and statements by Mr. Yiannopoulos have caused pain and divisiveness undermining the open and productive discourse that I had hoped to facilitate. I was mistaken to have supported him, and for several weeks have been in the process of severing all ties with him.
personal data
SURNAME Yiannopoulos, Milo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist, entrepreneur and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1984