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I'm curious as to why he was so popular, but never curious enough to look into it. Seems like another Failed Loser, whose 15 minutes of fame has come to an end.

Well we can't ignore that his popularity was quite limited until Berkeley happened.

He's worth $750k and the pins were set up for a 8 figure 2017 payout... until this pedophelia position went public.

Let's see if he recovers or if his 15min of fame is in fact up. This might not be an easy one to recover from.

errc says

I'm curious as to why he was so popular,

Because of the lefties and trigglypuff. He would have been a normal person with an opinion , but the crazy lefties turned him into some sort of folk hero.

errc says

I'm curious...

me 2 :)

I'm not a Milo fan but he's very smart and can do serious journalism, as became clear in Orlando following the Islamic violence last year. (The Mateen family murdered 50 infidels and injured 50 more at a bar in Orlando, and the FBI and administration seemed to cover up the Islamic connections, but Milo and others found them and Breitbart and others reported. Facts emerged also via the Canadian press, and Brazilian TV, but Breitbart was on scene and reported first.) I had never seen Milo's work before then, and had barely heard of Breitbart.

Milo seems to have become popular because (a) he's funny and (b) he says politically unfashionable things. He's both gay and anti-gay, so in the constrained logic of PC identity politics he can get away with saying anti-gay things that others aren't supposed to say. He's ethnically Jewish but actually Catholic, and advocates Vatican positions on marriage and other topics. I don't agree with him but I respected the serious reporting from Orlando and the Bill Maher interview made me laugh.

BTW, he's in trouble now because he said it's possible a 13yo could consent to sex. In America, 13yos have been legally allowed to get married, for example in 1957-58 Jerry Lee Lewis got married to a 13yo cousin once removed. We live in almost Orwellian times, where recent events can get buried and practically deleted from popular awareness though they remain on the Internet: a Ken Burns history of Thomas Jefferson omitted entirely the Barbary Wars, and Salon deleted articles by a pedophile perhaps to isolate and delete Milo.

I don't think he is anti-gay, he seems mostly anti-feminists and anti-islam.
This of course makes him a target of the would-be SJWs of the world.
The entire reason he is known is that (like Trump) he turned that to his advantage, as controversy only brings attention to what he is saying and many people find themselves agreeing with him.
He recently successfully demonstrated how illiberal the left has become, when a riot prevented him from giving a talk in Berkeley.

So in that line, there is seemingly no limit to what offensive thing he could say. That's until he starts defending pedophiles and realizes there is a fine line between making feminists look like hysteric and making everyone hysteric against him by defending evil.

Heraclitusstudent says

I don't think he is....

He is, nevertheless. For example, in addition to calling it a "horrifying...lifestyle choice," he opposes marriage equality.

Heraclitusstudent says

defending evil.

Tell that to the state of Louisiana. They licensed the most famous marriage example, in 1957-8. Same age as Milo was talking about. In other places, it remains a common age for marriage, and it was in Christendom for a long time; you can call them all evil if you want, but you can't genuinely isolate one "evil" villain for defending them, as Salon appears to have done.

It's pretty funny to me that he went out like that considering we have had this same conversation around here.

I don't think what happened in 1957 is a good yardstick for morality today. That's kind of like using law from 1840 to determine morality in 1900.

YesYNot says

I don't think what happened in 1957 is a good yardstick for morality today. That's kind of like using law from 1840 to determine morality in 1900.

How quickly must our morals change? Both my parents were alive in 1957

Makes it hard to keep track of what is right and "wrong "

Opinions change, I don't agree with firing. What appeals to anyone today, isn't same as 20 years ago.

Milo Yiannopoulos is a men's rights activist. That is why he was fired. Of course, it is illegal to fire feminists for being feminists, or even just for being incompetent.

So much for the Republicans and the right-wingers being less against men than the left.

justme says

Milo Yiannopoulos is a men's rights activist. That is why he was fired. Of course, it is illegal to fire feminists for being feminists, or even just for being incompetent.

So much for the Republicans and the right-wingers being less against men than the left.

Strange then that he had a book deal and a job at Breitbart a day or two ago whilst still being a 'men's rights activist.'