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BayArea
2017 Feb 22, 6:14am
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.
Dan8267
2017 Feb 22, 8:04am
So they threw him under the bus.
Well, I guess Milo and PewDiePie now have four things in common.
justme
2017 Feb 22, 8:18am
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
OneTwo
2017 Feb 22, 9:35am
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?).
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I had seen a couple of YouTube videos of this Milo character before the Berkeley protest. I thought he was sharp but too over the top with his political views.
And when the Berkeley protests happened, he became a recognizable name overnight. I thought to myself, "either the liberals have no idea the notoriety and recognition they are giving to this guy with this protest OR they are doing it on purpose since most republicans want him to go away as quickly as possible".
I think it was the former rather than the latter if I had to guess.
But it looks like he stood for some highly inappropriate and criminal positions leading Brietbart to either give him the option to resign or fire him. It also cost him a book deal.
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News
http://usat.ly/2lsbb53