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errc says

Why do you think there should be consequences? What law is she breaking?

It's obviously a very difficult area because not successfully prosecuting a rape allegation doesn't prove that it was false. However, if it is clearly proven as a malicious act (the allegation), I think there should be consequences.

curious2 says

Marriage equality became legal nationally less than two years ago. When Republicans quit fighting to take away people's marriages, the issue will fade from the news.

Just don't hold religious people hostage against their beliefs and perhaps there wont be a drive to repeal it. Liberals can't leave that itch alone.
You take the fringe of one extreme and you whack it against the fringe of the opposite extreme it will resonate and amplify until two bipolar extreme fringes are dictating politics.
it's been sickening, watching gays and zealots wrestle around on the ground one in a Speedo and the other going commando in a Monk Smock. And no body can look away.
Please we have eyeball fatigue make it stop. Go marry Frank and have a happy life, just don't hold Father Guido hostage at gun point to do the ceremony.

Does anyone have an exact quote of what Milo said that got him in trouble?

rando says

Does anyone have an exact quote of what Milo said that got him in trouble?

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."

rando says

Does anyone have an exact quote of what Milo said that got him in trouble?

I will find it and post the transcript

Rashomon says

So you tell us, has any feminist made equivalent comments and not had a pending book release withdrawn? If you don't have an example, then what's your point?

Well there is the famous feminist Germaine Greer. Not only was her 2003 book publishing not cancelled, but the book in question was described by Greer herself as follows:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_Boy

Greer has described the book as "full of pictures of 'ravishing' pre-adult boys with hairless chests, wide-apart legs and slim waists".

Further, there is this exchange during an interview:

Interviewer: Really, What attracts you to boys?
Greer: Oh, everything; sperm that runs like tap water will do

rando says

Does anyone have an exact quote of what Milo said that got him in trouble?

The Reagan Battalion video:

http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-quits-breitbart-pedophilia-why-did-who-is-edtior-cpac-controversy/

justme says

Well there is the famous feminist Germaine Greer. Not only was her 2003 book publishing not cancelled, but the book in question was described by Greer herself as follows:

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_Boy

Greer has described the book as "full of pictures of 'ravishing' pre-adult boys with hairless chests, wide-apart legs and slim waists".

Well, it was supposed to be a study of the history of boys in art, not about having sex with minors.

justme says

Further, there is this exchange during an interview:

Interviewer: Really, What attracts you to boys?

Greer: Oh, everything; sperm that runs like tap water will do

Yeah, rather difficult to comment on a couple of lines without context - that line might have just been a joke as far as anyone can tell from that.

Personally, I'm not especially bothered by Milo's comments. However, he is playing a very particular game to make himself some money, so presumably he knows very well how those sort of comments may play out, and yet he went ahead and said them. Hoisted with his own petard basically.

I only saw my first interview of him yesterday. I don't quite get the hype that this guy has. I don't get the love on the right and I don't get the hate on the left. The guy is just a tool who spouts off random talking points.

theoakman says

I don't get the love on the right

That's a stretch.

PCGyver says

BayArea says

theoakman says

I don't get the love on the right

That's a stretch

So are you saying the right are a bunch of in the closet homosexuals?

Wrong, left leaning grasshopper.

I'm saying the right doesn't exactly view Milo as their ambassador.

Breitbart is protecting their brand. The libs would seize on their employing an alleged endorser of pedophilia. I think next Amazon will stop selling music by The Smiths.

So they threw him under the bus.

Well, I guess Milo and PewDiePie now have four things in common.

Rashomon says

Yeah, rather difficult to comment on a couple of lines without context.

A direct question and a direct answer, a very explicitly sexual answer from Germaine Greer. And you demand more context? How crazy can you get? I think I need to repeat what Germaine Greer said:

Interviewer: Really, What attracts you to boys?
Greer: Oh, everything; sperm that runs like tap water will do

justme says

A direct question and a direct answer, a very explicitly sexual answer from Germaine Greer. And you demand more context? How crazy can you get? I think I need to repeat what Germaine Greer said:

Interviewer: Really, What attracts you to boys?

Greer: Oh, everything; sperm that runs like tap water will do

That's utterly ridiculous. How did she say it? What was the conversation just before/after that? Those are obviously extremely important. That response could just be an off the cuff jokey remark. Quite obviously the illocutionary force of the speaker is paramount here (as with what Milo said) and typing out 2 lines does not remotely give you that.

Take this example:
Interviewer: Justme, do you have sex with young boys?
Justme: Yeah, all the time.

Direct question, direct answer as you put it, so Justme is a paedo... except what was omitted from that transcript was nervous laughter/sarcasm/eye roll... and the following line:

Justme: No, no, obviously I don't.

Do you get my point? What she said may have been highly inappropriate. Conversely, it may not. The same for Milo, which is exactly why you need to hear the conversation, not read it in that way (or do you think that's how linguists transcribe discourse?).