Milo Yiannopoulos

Uc Berkeley Braces For Breitbart Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

... by the incident. He said he didn’t agree with all of the man’s views, but thinks Yiannopoulos brings diversity of opinion to the liberal campus. “Milo in Berkeley almost sounds antithetical,” Diaz said, but he “is attempting to bring to light many of the problems that have for quite some time now started to plague our universities — freedom of speech, expression. “If it takes someone as controversial as Milo to come to Berkeley and open up the discourse,” he said, “so be it.”. That is, if the Berkeley College Republicans come up with the cash. Diaz’s group will be expected to pay for basic security for the public event in the Pauley Ballroom, said campus spokesman Dan Mogulof, and the campus will cover the rest. “We cannot discriminate and we cannot charge the student group extra money based solely on the content of the speaker’s anticipated expression,” Mogulof said. Still, he said, the campus has a responsibility to ensure safety. If Yiannopoulos brings private security guards, as he usually does, UC police must send an equal number ...

Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal

... a step further and imagine that some sort of Robin Hooding is at work—that Simon & Schuster spreads around profits from its different imprints, using the income from Threshold best-sellers to fund worthy books that otherwise might be too financially risky to publish. But it’s not clear that that’s necessarily the case. Simon & Schuster has many other best-sellers, after all, and the company isn’t exactly transparent about how it allocates its profits and resources. Even if such Robin Hooding were occurring, it wouldn’t solve the Yiannopoulos problem, which is the existence of such truly noxious books in the first place. And that brings us to the trouble with a blanket boycott: it risks hurting the readers who want to get to the good stuff, rather than the company that publishes all of it, the nectar along with the dreck. A blanket boycott of Simon & Schuster would mean missing out on “The Blood of Emmett Till,” by Timothy B. Tyson, a new history of Till’s lynching and the birth of the civil-rights movement, and on “Democracy Now!: Twenty Years of Covering the Movements Changing America” by Amy Goodman, which came out in April ...

Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Once Wrote Satirical Poetry About Jews

... trolling crusade against African-American actress Leslie Jones, recently inked a book deal with Simon & Schuster. The publishing house is giving Yiannopoulos a $250,000 advance for the book, titled “Dangerous,” which is being pitched as a look at free speech by “the outspoken and controversial gay British writer and editor…who describes himself as ‘the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.’”. It should be noted that this isn’t Yiannopoulos’s first foray into the world of literature. Almost a decade ago, Yiannopoulos self-published a book of satirical poetry called “Eskimo Papoose,” which plagiarized Tori Amos, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and included lines about Jews. Last year, former NFL player Chris Kluwe tracked down a copy of Yiannopoulos’ work, published under the name Milo Andreas Wagner, and live-tweeted his reading journey. (Kluwe is an opponent of Gamergate, a movement supported by Yiannopoulos, that maintained feminists were ruining the culture of gaming.). Here, Yiannopoulos, who has Jewish ancestry, ...

Counter-event Planned To Coincide With Milo Yiannopoulos Talk At Cu Boulder

... to CU Chancellor Phil Di Stefano. Di Stefano has said that all student groups must be free to invite any speaker they wish to campus. "To be a university dedicated to the free exchange of ideas, our students should be exposed to views that are both in line with their beliefs and those that are not," Di Stefano wrote in a campus newsletter. In recent visits to other campuses, Yiannopoulos has singled out a transgender woman and poked fun at professor. Flaxman said the Buffs United event is intended to promote the values of the Colorado Creed, a short statement that lays out the university's principles. He said those values stand on their own and should be promoted, regardless of who is visiting campus. "Certainly I'd say (Yiannopoulos') presence has been a catalyst for a lot of people on campus to think about, 'What am I going to be doing that day?' and 'What am I doing in general?'" Flaxman said. "We thought that (Jan. 25) does present some challenges for our campus and for our community and it would be a particularly good date to provide an event that affirms the ...

Martin Shkreli To Join Milo Yiannopoulos At Uc Davis Speaker Event

... Duca, is currently out on bail after being arrested for securities fraud. Shkreli is also infamous for raising the price of Daraprim, a drug that helps prevent infections for people with cancer or HIV, from $13.50 to $750 per pill, a 5,000 percent increase in price. Yiannopoulos, who has previously spoken out against feminism, political correctness and Islam, was also banned from Twitter due to racist tweets directed toward African American comedian Leslie Jones. UC Davis students have protested his upcoming visit on social media as well as through a public letter addressed to UC Davis administrators and the Davis College Republicans, the club hosting the event. The announcement that Shkreli would be joining Yiannopoulos came on the same day that Interim Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter released a public letter regarding Yiannopoulos’ impending visit to campus. Although Hexter reaffirmed UC Davis’ Principles of Community and the need to support transgender students, he stated that the event would not be cancelled. “Like most places of higher learning and teaching, UC Davis is a ...

Milo Yiannopoulos Event Canceled

... during that time, prompted College Republicans president Andrew Gates to bring Yiannopoulos back to the university. “Last year’s event had one of the biggest turnouts of any speaking event on campus,” Gates, a third-year economics and accounting major, said in a written statement to The Bottom Line. “Many students clearly enjoy Milo’s message and style.”. Yiannopoulos has sparked controversies on a number of college campuses during his tour. His signature criticism of feminism, Islam, and political correctness has caused many to label his views as hate speech. Nevertheless, the speaker has become a champion for young conservative thinkers, and received such a distinction last May, when he drew a filled-to-capacity audience at Corwin Pavilion at an event hosted by UCSB Young Americans for Liberty. The student group is unaffiliated with the latest planned visit, which will be hosted instead by College Republicans. Members of YAL carried in Yiannopoulos on a throne to begin last May’s event. During his ensuing hour-long lecture, Yiannopoulos ripped into the rise of the so-called “social justice” ...

Leslie Jones Accuses Simon & Schuster Over Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal

... months after he was banned from Twitter for allegedly encouraging a bombardment of abusive tweets towards the Ghostbusters actor. It was announced last week that Yiannopoulos, an editor for Breitbart News, had signed a $250,000 (£203,000) contract with Threshold, a conservative imprint of publisher Simon & Schuster, after he was offered – in his words – “a wheelbarrow full of money”. Threshold has previously printed books by Donald Trump , Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Publishing Milo Yiannopoulos’ book is wrong. My magazine is fighting back | Adam Morgan. Read more. The news sparked outrage among those who say he should not have a platform to share his views. After a coordinated appeal began on 29 December, with instructions on how to call the publisher and individual agents being shared widely online, Simon & Schuster briefly responded to the backlash, asking critics to “withhold judgment until they have had a chance to read the actual contents of the book”. It later issued a longer statement, saying it does not and never has condoned ...

Milo Yiannopoulos About To Publish First Book

... Milo, who left the Langton without completing his studies, is receiving a reported quarter-of-a-million dollars for the book, which is autobiographical. He said: “I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half-an-hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. "I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building –but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.”. "I’m more powerful, more influential and more fabulous than ever before, and this book is the moment Milo goes mainstream - debut author Milo Yiannopoulos. Milo, who works as a public speaker and is an editor at the right-wing Breitbart website, was due to speak at the school in November on the subject of Donald Trump’s US election victory after supporting the businessman’s candidacy. Last year he argued that “gay rights have made us dumber”, birth control made women “unattractive and crazy” and once opened a speech by saying “feminism is cancer”. A group of 50 academics and officers from Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent objected to Milo’s Langton visit. Their open letter complained: “In ...