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03-06-2017 12:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Frownland
(Post 1808605)
My other two thoughts are (1) really? It took the air of being pro-paedo to cut his book deal? and (2) I really hope this is the nail in the coffin of his career and that he doesn't manufactroversify himself back into the news so that free speech advocates can have a better face to represent them.
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I'll take this one I too.
I've heard Milo referred to as a 'free speech advocate' on several occasions. But the epithet seems inconsistent. Didn't he compare Islam to AIDS and Liberalism to the flu? Something about how AIDS catches on quicker when you're already weak from the flu? I half-remember his incendiary comment, mostly because it's the same kind of ignorant bluster that Ann Coulter is much better at, but I do remember thinking that it didn't quite jibe with his 'personal liberty' stance.
The implication is that Western values cannot coexist with Islam. Setting aside the 1000 years of Islamic culture that outshone the entirety of Europe (with regard to health, personal freedom, and ethnic integration) his comments were so sweeping that it crushes human identity into neat little cubes, all with a label. Hardly what you would expect a self-proclaimed champion of the enlightenment to support. Rather amusing that he's OK with blacklisting 1.2 billion people over the actions and statements of .0001% of them, but he then cries foul when caught speaking about Victorian moral judgement that preclude underage sexual relationships. It's not a straight line of hypocrisy, but it's sure dotted.
Long story short, Milo blows a lot of hot air, makes a lot of baseless, inflammatory statements, and finally got burned for essentially saying that underage sex isn't wrong for everybody (which is a separate rant, but Frownland hit the nail on the head with the power dynamic comment). I wish it was for something more incontrovertible - pick any number of his statements about feminism, immigrants, etc. - but whatever results in less of his smug, anti-intellectual nonsense is OK by me.
So when you say free-speech advocate, what do you mean? What makes you refer to him like that?
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