The Alt-Rights Worst Troll Gets Book Deal for $250,000

[ehrnst]

Since Breitbart staffer and online troll Milo Yiannopoulos got banned from Twitter after inciting a massive wave of harassment against actress Leslie Jones, he’s been on a college tour — including a stop at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he openly mocked a transgender student. He also, apparently, has been finalizing a book deal: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Yiannopoulos has received a $250,000 deal from Threshold Editions, an imprint at Simon & Schuster.

A spokesperson from Threshold confirmed that they will be publishing Yiannopoulos’s book, Dangerous, on March 14, 2017. They added that it “will be a book on free speech by the outspoken and controversial gay British writer and editor at Breitbart News who describes himself as ‘the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.’”

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/12/milo-yiannopoulos-usd250k-simon-and-schuster-book-deal.html

What's next? A gold-leafed, leather bound annotated new printing of Mein Kampf with a forward by Steve Bannon?

You can contact Simon and Schuster here to let them know what you think. Select the "feedback" topic.

http://www.simonandschuster.com/about/contact_us

[shenmue]

1. It's going to be shitty

[ehrnst]

2. And here's a petition

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/simon-schuster-please-cancel-the-milo

[nolabear]

3. I know quite a few authors. S&S is getting slammed big time in the community.

And getting the "liberals don't believe in freedom of speech" blowback. They have every right to publish it, and we have every right to create consequences.

[ehrnst]

4. Damn straight. It's called the free market. (nt)

[Volaris]

6. The other side doesn't like free markets. They like markets that they can control.

[WhiteTara]

5. Here are the corporate phone numbers

Corporate Headquarters
SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
PHONE: [phone]

Call them next week and tell them how you feel about them publishing hate speech. I know I will. It does have an effect because without customers they won't have a business.

[Sherman A1]

7. I think it's fine for S&S to publish this book

And while I have no use for the author, they have a right to express themselves. It will be interesting to see just what the sales of this book turn out to be and how quickly they end up on the shelf at Dollar General?

[ehrnst]

8. No one is saying that they don't have the right to publish hate speech.

I'm just saying that the market should tell them what it has to say about it, and boycott if they feel strongly about it.

[Sherman A1]

15. I completely agree with you

hence my remark about the shelf at Dollar General. The books will either be bought up by some conservative group supporting this or that cause or end up on the remainder bins and shelves.

[pstokely]

16. won't they just buy it in bulk to drive it to the chart of the charts?

like do with others?

[Warren DeMontague]

9. about the ONLY thing Milo is good at is getting certain corners of the "left" to try & shut him up.

Thereby proving his point, that "liberals" are authoritarians who don't believe in free speech.

So, congratulations, you're doing exactly what he wants, here. Best response to that guy is to go "yeah. sure" and ignore him. But he's very good at needling a reaction out of the folks he wants to get a response from.

Honestly, the guy is Gay and he's too young to really remember the last time, for instance, that the Republicans ran the US (yes, I realize he's British) ... I suspect that after they show their true colors, including the homophobia, in a few years he'll grow/wise up just as people like Andrew Sullivan eventually did. In the meantime, he's made a very lucrative career out of little more than setting people off and then sitting back as they try to silence him.

Comparing him to Hitler- or his Jr. Varsity trolling to Mein Kampf- is ridiculous.

[yardwork]

10. I think "lucrative career" is the salient point here.

[ehrnst]

11. Exactly. (nt)

[Warren DeMontague]

13. So.. do you want him to make -more- money, or not?

Because all anyone is doing by demanding that S & S not publish dude's book, is writing the ad campaign for the thing:

"find out what liberals didn't think you should be allowed to read!!11!"

[yardwork]

14. I agree with you that ignoring him is the sensible course.

[LandrosT]

12. What a slag heap

I wish we would never have to hear about him again.