That's the sound of Troll Extraordinaire Milo Yiannopoulos, clinking his shot glass to this article's title--because it's going to do a hell of a lot to burnish his "Too Extreme For Political Correctness" steelo. And he's right. We at HD in Effect cannot disagree with him there. By the time this hits Google's analytics, Yiannopoulos will have earned quite a few more click-based coins to place in his piggy bank.
So...the question becomes this. How do you respond to a homophobic (coincidentally gay) troll whose anti-gay think pieces are wrapped off in a fist-bumping, affirmative satire sauce, before sneakily devolving into a rubber, same-sex parenting-bashing 10 cent bodega sandwich? Or a racist man who deflects those claims by shouting he loves black phallus and has a "very anti-white bedroom policy," to anyone who'll hear him out?
Simple.
By responding anyways.
No matter how many times Yiannopoulos coats his views in a "I hate and love everyone equally" veneer, the reality is, there's dangers to empowering alt-right cretins who carry David Duke's Grand Wizard torch. Or boosting the doxing "Gamergate" crowd (better known as the "Only girlfriend I'll ever have is my right hand" squad). Or telling a black female actor dealing with chimp pictures spamming her Twitter to get over it, because, " EVERYONE GETS HATE MAIL FFS." Perhaps Mr. Yiannopoulos has never so much as curled an actual fist before, but his officiating the worlds of online racism and sexism, coupled with his massive public reach, is way more dangerous to actual lives.
Which brings us to the recent UC Berkeley fiasco. Masked agitators supposedly shut down a stop by Yiannopoulos on his "Dangerous (rhymes with "Maggot") tour. Essentially, it's where he goes to different schools nationwide, waxes on about "feminazis" and tags random audience members with zingers wrapped in isms.
They didn't want him to spread his rhetoric on campus. The "Right" took to the digi airwaves to scream about the "Intolerance of The Left," and why libs are afraid of free speech.
(Just for the record, libs damn sure can be scared of free speech. Obama proved that). But we at HD in Effect raise you this. The right-wing movement Milo stans for represents a historical violence, against any and all of this nations's disadvantaged peeps: slavery, mass indigenous genocide, gay killings, and 21st Century Jim Crow. Breitbarters and their ilk will dismiss those as "typical leftist talking points."
Um, yeah. Doesn't mean they're not fact.
And it doesn't mean we should let this gay, British, half-Jewish troll get away with dangerous trollogy, under the defense he uses of actually being a gay, British, half-Jewish troll. Even if it carries the very real risk of popularizing him more among some populations. We'll just have to keep exposing the roots of his ideas, and why they're bad. Especially considering he was allegedly gearing up to out undocumented students at Berkeley.
Now that that's off our chests, one more quick announcement. We told Odyssey to hit the bricks. That means we'll be trying to post for you HD in Effecters more often. Like a ex-boyfriend lingering around after you've sent him that Tumblr breakup message.
The good old days.
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