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‘GB News wouldn’t touch him’: Milo Yiannopoulos will struggle to fit in with UK right wing
(www.theguardian.com)
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He isn't as extreme as we might think?
The guy who published an article titled "Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism Or Cancer?".
The guy who said, on video, "that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can "happen perfectly consensually", because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women".
The guy who told "at least two news organizations that he wanted vigilantes to shoot journalists. He wrote in a text message "I can't wait for vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight".".
That guy isn't extreme?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Views
Regarding what he said about paedophilia: while nobody could justify it, I don't think it's the best example of his extremism. He was molested by a priest at 13. That experience would give anyone fucked up views around sex and consent. Maybe he adopted that view so he could rationalise his own sexual abuse as consensual. I hope that in his shoes I would've found a better way to cope with that trauma. He was still wrong for saying it but the whole thing makes me feel more sad than angry.
As for the rest of his extremist views, presumably he came by those honestly so fuck him.