Milo Yiannopoulos

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

... photo). Related Stories. Jan 12. Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart writer banned from Twitter, to speak at CU. A group at the University of Colorado has organized a counter-event that will take place during a planned campus visit by controversial conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos later this month. The event, called Buffs United, will feature "music, spoken word, theater and art" and will support a "shared vision for an inclusive, affirming campus," according to its Facebook page. It's the first in a series of planned events organized by a grassroots group of CU employees and students, according to Sam Flaxman, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "We're working to get messages out and to bring voices in to really help members of our community feel like everybody here on our campus has value as a member of this community and this is a place that wants to celebrate that," said Flaxman. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place in Old Main from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 25. Later that night, an "inspiring speaker" whose name has not yet been announced will host ...

Breitbart Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos Is Shouted Down At Uc Davis But Gets The Last Word

... against actress Leslie Jones. On Friday, Breitbart provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos's appearance at UC Davis was canceled in the face of loud protests. Milo, as he is known, was permanently banned from Twitter after spearheading racist attacks against actress Leslie Jones. (Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times). Robin Abcarian. There was a bit of jostling — and at least one thrown cup of coffee — Friday evening at Davis. But mostly there was a lot of chanting and yelling as several hundred vociferous protesters succeeded in shutting down an appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos, the puerile 33-year-old Breitbart writer who is best known for getting banned from Twitter after leading a charge of racist harassment against “Ghostbusters” actress Leslie Jones. This was supposed to have been a stop on Yiannopoulos’s “Dangerous Faggot” college campus tour.  He was to have been joined by Martin Shkreli, the ethics-challenged pharmaceutical entrepreneur who jacked up the price of an AIDS drug ...

Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos Once Wrote Satirical Poetry About Jews

... 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, begins one of his poems with “I am not an anti-Semite.”. Oh wait, no, it all migrated to the next page. Is ink migratory? (This one’s classy, btw) #papoose __link__/u 44 vsw Ym Hx — Cassandra (@Chris Warcraft) January 15, 2015. In this one he requests: “don’t Jew me down.”. Huh. This must have been what ...

Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal

... for a celebrity’s, or even a pseudo-celebrity’s, book—Amy Schumer squeezed nine million out of Simon & Schuster for her memoir, “The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo”—but it’s still two hundred and fifty thousand dollars too many to give to a man who has helped define the Trump moment’s flippant bigotry in the service of brand-building narcissism. Even Yiannopoulos made a show of seeming surprised that his antics had paid off, and with such little effort on his part. “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,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building—but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.”. “Simon & Schuster” became a trending topic on Twitter on Thursday afternoon, as users excoriated the company for the deal. (Yiannopoulos-opposed users, that is. Members of his fan base ...

How Publishing Houses Weigh A Decision Like Giving Milo Yiannopoulos A Book Deal

... one could argue that they don’t need a platform either.). The world of conservative publishing is not of one mind about Yiannopoulos. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, the 33-year-old provocateur wove a tale of his own effortless star power, as if editors were falling all over themselves to broadcast his words. “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,” he boasted. “I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building—but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.”. That’s not quite how many of the publishing insiders I spoke to see it. (Simon & Schuster declined to comment for this story.) For one thing, as an editor at a different house explained, $250,000 is not a lot of cash for a celebrity memoir, nor did there seem to be “an auction or anyone fighting over Milo.” Also, “Simon & Schuster” is a deceptively prestigious label for an operation like Threshold, which is not ...

Martin Shkreli To Join Milo Yiannopoulos At Uc Davis Speaker Event

... harassing female journalist Lauren 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 ...

Over 160 Children’s Book Authors Send Letter To Publisher Protesting Milo Yiannopoulos’ Book

... Leslie Jones, it didn’t take long for there to be outrage over the announcement of the deal. In fact, Jones herself told the publisher they were helping spread hate for publishing his book. Meanwhile, Simon and Schuster has defended their decision. Well, it now appears that a large group of authors of children’s books have sent a letter to the publisher protesting the publication of a book by “hate-monger Milo Yiannopoulos.” In the letter, they noted Milo’s connection to the alt-right. Threshold has placed Simon & Schuster’s considerable reputation and weight behind one of the most prominent faces of the newly repackaged white supremacist/white nationalist movement and financially supported a man who routinely denigrates, verbally attacks, and directs dangerous internet doxxing and hate campaigns against women, minorities, LGBTQ individuals, Muslims, and anyone he chooses to target who supports equality and human decency. Irrespective of the content of this book, by extending a mainstream ...

Uc Berkeley Braces For Breitbart Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos

... ensure safety. If Yiannopoulos brings private security guards, as he usually does, UC police must send an equal number of officers, said Mogulof — “so we never have a situation where you have an external bodyguard acting on their own.”. And then there is the possibility of conflict. “We’re getting letters that are saying, ‘If the university doesn’t do the right thing, we’re going to take matters into our own hands,'” he said. But there is little that a public university — an arm of government — can do if it has authorized its student groups to invite speakers to campus, said Ken Paulson, president of the First Amendment Center and dean of the College of Mass Communication at Middle Tennessee State University. Even a white supremacist, Paulson said, would be “home free” to give a speech under the First Amendment, as long as he didn’t threaten violence. How UC Berkeley’s progressive student body responds after returning from winter break next month remains to be seen. While some will undoubtedly protest the event, “a big media mess” is what Yiannopoulos wants, said Field-Elliot — which, for some, ...