Milo Yiannopoulos is one of the loudest and most
controversial household names to emerge in the last few years. I first heard of
him through my interest in the men's rights movement and my own criticism of feminism,
before he was a mainstream celebrity; see background links below. It is only
during the Trump campaign that he shot to international stardom. He faced
fierce opposition from the left, the right and almost all other sides. As a
homosexual Jew who favours interracial sex, but who also has hard right wing views,
he finds enemies virtually everywhere. He is often regarded as the public face
of the emergent "Alt-right" movement, however not everybody in the
Alt-right accepts him. He is more a fellow traveller. He is very eloquent, provocative,
witty and intelligent which makes him difficult to ignore whether you love him
or hate him. The issue he feels the strongest about is free speech. He was
banned from Twitter a few months ago when he got in to an argument with the
actress Leslie Jones after he gave her film Ghostbusters
a very damning review. Internet bullies chimed in and subjected Jones, a black
woman, to racist abuse. Milo was unfairly blamed for
this and had his account permanently deleted. However much worse was to come. The
scandal that broke out these last couple of weeks is far more serious and might
even destroy him. Strangely enough the cause of all the outrage is comments Milo
made during radio interviews over a year ago. He appeared on the Joe Rogan
Experience in September 2015 and the Drunken Peasants podcast in January last
year. During these broadcasts he spoke candidly about child abuse. He explains
that when he was thirteen years old he had a sexual relationship with
"Father Michael", a Catholic priest who he knew until he was sixteen.
Even though he is Jewish his family converted to his father's Roman
Catholicism. He regards the matter very nonchalantly and even jokes about it.
He feels that he was able to enter into mature consensual sex with this man,
who was twenty-nine when they met. Even more seriously, he claims to have
attended Hollywood pool parties where "very young
boys" performed sexual acts with the guests which included some very
famous actors and film crew. This matches the testimony of the young movie
stars Cory Feldman and Elijah Wood. When this story broke he had his invitation
revoked to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference. He was forced
to resign as editor of Breitbart News after the staff threatened to go on
strike if he didn't. Also Simon and Schuster cancelled his book. They were due
to publish his autobiography in June this year; a deal worth over a quarter of
a million dollars for Milo . Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGL5eRw7rXU
and: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azC1nm85btY.
The timing of this revelation is clearly deliberate. When Milo
uttered these words they passed over the radar without a blip; in fact I
listened to the shows myself at the time and don't even remember the segments
in question. It's obvious this is a coordinated premeditated attack on him by
this very cross-party coalition-of-convenience that are his enemies. The
response has been very mixed. If you put his name into Google you'll find
almost everybody has commented and they all have a different opinion. Some are
denouncing him as a paedophile apologist; others are appealing for calm. I
personally think Milo should be treated compassionately.
A lot of the condemnation he has received comes from people who don't
understand how children respond to being sexually abused. The fact is: Milo
has told us that he was a victim of sexual abuse as a young boy. This has been
forgotten in the emotional furore. Such an ordeal affects different people in
different ways. It's not uncommon for children to fall into denial about what
has happened to them. Some of them blame themselves. It's also a psychological
defensive tactic to simply brush it off or trivialize it. They can even develop Stockholm syndrome, feelings of love towards their abuser. This is similar to
other traumatic experiences. An adult who was abused as a child is never the
same again; it influences them for the rest of their lives. It is a testimony
to the malice and ruthlessness of Milo 's opponents that
they have ignored this point. They've also revealed how selective and
hypocritical they are. In the fallout from Milo 's
scandal it was revealed that the actor George Takei, best known for playing Mr
Sulu in Star Trek, also had a sexual
relationship with a man when he was a boy. Like Milo he
was also thirteen. His lover was aged eighteen or nineteen and they met at a
summer camp. The director Roman Polanski was actually a sexual abuser. He had
sex with a fourteen year old girl in 1977, yet nobody minded when he was given
an Oscar in 2010 and was applauded by the Hollywood
greats. (I remain suspicious about the timing of his dishonour too, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/ghost-writer.html.)
What I would urge Milo to do is name and shame the
people he talked about when he related the story of the pool party. He has a
duty to help put a stop to these crimes. I hope this is not the end for Milo .
He has given a press conference about what happened, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABJo7w-efTA.
His existing fame and respect should be enough fuel for a healthy comeback. He
could easily self-publish his book and make it a success. Or maybe another
publisher with more balls will put it out. I know that he has done things that
nobody will ever forget; his perceptive and heartfelt opposition to feminism,
his champion of abused men and boys, and women in Muslim theocracies whom the
feminists ignore. I wish him all the best and will continue to support him.
See here for
background: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/royal-troon-admits-women.html.
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