Is Milo Yiannopoulos REALLY a gay-hating, racist, neo-nazi?
Is
this guy REALLY a neo-nazi?
‘On
the front lines of a culture war’: Yiannopoulos speaks to RT ahead
of #DayForFreedom
RT,
5
May, 2018
British
people are simply too apathetic about politics to care as much as
their US counterparts about how their society is organized, Milo
Yiannopoulos told RT ahead of the #DayForFreedom.
In
a wide-ranging interview, self-proclaimed provocateur Yiannopoulos,
who now resides in the US, discusses why he’s back on home soil to
speak at Sunday’s Day For Freedom in London. He outlines his
particular concern about private citizens acting as ‘thought
police’ and limiting a person’s right to self-expression.
The
bestselling author says the main reason people in Britain find it
difficult to understand “just why the left and right in America are
so brutally horrible to one another” is that, unlike Britons,
Americans are very engaged in political issues regardless of their
education.
Yiannopoulos
says he is “engaged in the business of spreading the gospel of free
speech,” which he believes is one of the “undergirding principles
of our civilisation.” The conservative activist thinks that the UK
is in dire straits when it come to free speech – something he says
is exemplified by the recent conviction of vlogger Count Dankula.
The
YouTuber, whose real name is Mark Meechan, was recently convicted of
a hate crime and fined £800 ($1,080) after teaching a pug to do a
Nazi salute. His conviction sparked debate about free speech in the
UK, and Meechan has found an ally in Yiannopoulos. Comedians Ricky
Gervais and Jonathan Pie have also rallied to Meechan’s defense.
“I
knew that the situation in Europe was bad, my jaw hit the floor...
when I heard that somebody had been convicted, in a courtroom and
[at] public expense, of making fun of Nazis on the internet,”
Yiannopoulos told RT’s Oscar Featherstone.
Yiannopoulos,
who counts himself among the “free-speech refugees from Europe”
in the US, said that it’s “very important that we all come
together to express our horror at the illiberal turn that society has
taken.”
He
believes that himself and other Day for Freedom speakers Tommy
Robinson and Gavin McInnes are on the “front lines” of a culture
war.
“We’re
the ones that get censored first, kicked off social media, get called
names by the press and we’re going to explain to you briefly on
Sunday… what the consequences might be if ordinary Brits don’t
stand up and say ‘Enough is enough.’”
Asked
if he thinks that free speech in the UK is under greater threat than
in his adopted homeland, Yiannopoulos said that while George Orwell’s
visions of dystopia got a lot of facets of the future right, there
were certain details that the ‘1984’ author failed to predict.
“What
George Orwell didn’t foresee about America was that it wouldn’t
be the government that would be infringing on people’s rights to
self-expression, that's happening here. You are forced to speak in a
way that the government approves of in this country, that’s really
the reality,” he said.
“That’s
the future that Orwell envisaged. What Orwell didn’t foresee was
the situation in America, which I think is worse, which is private
citizens policing one another,” Yiannopoulos added. “Through the
institutions and organizations and corporations that they have formed
in the private sector."
“In
America you’ve got universities, the media and – most importantly
– silicon valley and social media policing the language of other
citizens, always in one direction. It’s always the left policing
the right, and I don’t think there is any serious disagreement
about that.”
More examples of the insanity Yanopoulos refers to:
More examples of the insanity Yanopoulos refers to:
In
a case that has triggered public outrage, a top Finnish court has
upheld a ruling that sex between an asylum seeker and a 10-year-old
girl didn’t constitute rape. Critics are calling for harsher
sentences for child abuse.
Finland’s
Supreme Court rejected a request from the prosecution to appeal a
three-year jail term for a 23-year-old man on Thursday. Finnish media
identify him as Juusuf Muhamed Abbudin, an asylum seeker, but don’t
reveal his country of origin.
The
man was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse, although the
prosecution had sought a harsher sentence on charges of aggravated
rape. However, the court left the original verdict unchanged.
There
was anger when the prosecutor's office in the town of Pontoise, a
north-western Parisian suburb, put the father of two on trial for
charges of “sexual
abuse of a minor under 15,” rather
than for rape.
While
the girl's family filed a complaint for rape, the public prosecutor's
office decided that that there was no evidence to suggest that the
sexual relationship had
been obtained by "threat,
violence, surprise or coercion."
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