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Post #1048961

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Jeebus
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
21-Feb-2017, 10:46 PM

TV’s Frink said:

Well look at this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-from-breitbart-news-after-pedophilia-comments.html

Mr. Yiannopoulos’s downfall this week — a dizzying 24 hours in which he lost his speaking slot at the pre-eminent conservative conference, had a book deal canceled and, on Tuesday, resigned under pressure from his job as a senior editor at Breitbart News — was a sign that in today’s political culture, when each day seems to bring a fresh lowering of the bar for decency and civility, some limits still remain.

His glib remarks about pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests and his endorsement of sexual relations with boys as young as 13 drew widespread condemnation from many of the conservatives who had long stood by him, even as he offended so many others with his insulting remarks about Hispanics, African-Americans, Muslims and Jews.

Mr. Yiannopoulos, appearing in Lower Manhattan wearing a sober suit and red tie on Tuesday afternoon, uttered the words that he had refused to say so many times before: I’m sorry. “I don’t think I’ve been as sorry about anything in my whole life.”

Related:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/02/21/the-96-hours-that-brought-down-milo-yiannopoulos/?utm_term=.2990c9f579ea

Here’s a link to one of the podcasts in which Milo defended pedophilia.

https://youtu.be/azC1nm85btY?t=57m55s

I definitely think it’s worthwile to watch it for the whole context. Not the whole episode, mind you; the segment goes from about 57:55 to 1:06:45

I was particularly amused by the part where he said that school-age boys seduce older women and destroy their lives.