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Initech

(100,096 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:31 PM Feb 2017

Professional Brown Shirt Milo Yiannopoulos Warns Universities That Donald Trump Is "Watching"

After heated protests resulted in the cancellation of a Milo Yiannopoulos speaking event at a California university, the infamous far-right Internet troll warned higher learning institutions that President Donald Trump is “watching”.

About 1,500 demonstrators gathered on the University of California, Berkeley, campus ahead of Yiannopoulos’ scheduled visit. A small group of anti-fascist agitators vandalised a segment of the campus, causing police to shut down the event.

The President responded to the events of the evening on Twitter, and appeared to threaten Berkeley – a university with a strong history of activist presence – with pulling federal funding.

“If UC Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” he wrote.

Yiannopoulos, who publicly outed and harassed a transgender woman at his last public speaking engagement, accused the protesters of trying to quash free speech that did not match their ideals.

“American universities should be on notice,” he told Business Insider. “The president is watching. The days you could silence conservative and libertarian voices on campus and still expect to collect their tax money are coming to an end.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/milo-yiannopoulos-donald-trump-watching-uc-berkeley-protest-anti-fascist-internet-troll-a7560451.html


I'm not one for violence but will someone punch him in the face? The protestors didn't start the violence, it was your fans, Milo. Sheesh, I hope this is a warning to universities not to hire this scumbag. Oh and fuck you Milo.
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Professional Brown Shirt Milo Yiannopoulos Warns Universities That Donald Trump Is "Watching" (Original Post) Initech Feb 2017 OP
Weakass. Starry Messenger Feb 2017 #1
Snowflake......... socialist_n_TN Feb 2017 #12
I just hope people are paying attention, that they realize this is a dictatorship Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #2
I love it!!!!!!!!!! bdamomma Feb 2017 #4
read this bdamomma Feb 2017 #5
I hear ya, many years ago someone who knew of him thru Eliot Rosewater Feb 2017 #7
If he's watching, I hope he's listening, too gratuitous Feb 2017 #3
They were exercising free speech you self-loathing hate monger. Nt NCTraveler Feb 2017 #6
Sometimes free speech means the freedom to say nothing at all. EL34x4 Feb 2017 #15
Well everyone is watching him as well malaise Feb 2017 #8
Plz deport him back to England. He is viciously misogynistic, anti-gay (despite being gay) anneboleyn Feb 2017 #9
He got kicked off Twitter last year for harassing Leslie Jones. Initech Feb 2017 #14
I hope he's watching when people kacekwl Feb 2017 #10
If trump is so busy watching maybe he'll stop tweeting at 3am and quit signing those Boomerproud Feb 2017 #11
It's an empty threat. Initech Feb 2017 #13

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
2. I just hope people are paying attention, that they realize this is a dictatorship
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:46 PM
Feb 2017

and one of their main goals is to give everything to the rich.

I just hope people put aside "The Bachelor" for just ten minutes even, to educate themselves.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
7. I hear ya, many years ago someone who knew of him thru
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:07 PM
Feb 2017

his apartment to condo transitions and how he got people to agree to leave, etc. assured me he was a very bad person, indeed.

I then paid a little attention here and there and saw that he had the vocabulary of a 4th grader, the emotions of a 12 yr old and it became clear to me he was very unstable.

The idea he is president is insane. It proves that many Americans are uneducated, very hateful and so on, real scary stuff.

He clearly is barely literate and has no control over himself.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. If he's watching, I hope he's listening, too
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 07:47 PM
Feb 2017

You never know, even Donald Trump might be capable of learning something. Someday.

 

EL34x4

(2,003 posts)
15. Sometimes free speech means the freedom to say nothing at all.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 09:00 PM
Feb 2017

If Milo showed up to one of his speaking events and there were no protestors outside, no disruptors inside, the people who came to see him would realize that he's kinda whiny and boring without an antagonistic crowd of opposition to wind him up.

As it is, Milo Yiannopolous feeds off this stuff and the energy in turn is feeding his book sales and public notoriety.

The protestors are as much a part of the "Milo Experience" as Yiannopolous is himself. Riots are even better! The crowd in Berkeley got their money's worth, that's for sure.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
9. Plz deport him back to England. He is viciously misogynistic, anti-gay (despite being gay)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:15 PM
Feb 2017

All imho, of course. He is one of the most malignant narcissists I have ever seen. He does anything for attention -- the safety and well-being of others be damned at long as he gets money and attention, and he has been banned from Twitter and Reddit and other sites for inciting vicious racist and hate-filled attacks against gay persons, actresses, etc. he is one of the most vicious body-shamers on the Internet.

Of course he is the most histrionic crybaby of them all, screaming whenever he's been "wronged." Now the Englishman is threatening American universities -- using one of the most basic playground tactics -- "The biggest bully is on my side so I win!" Fuck off Milo you pathetic worm.

His sad little fans on the alt-right worship him despite his obvious, very hypocritical flaws because they think his English accent gives them credibility and sounds "smahhht" (I wish I were joking but they say this all of the time -- same reason they like the moronic weirdo Sebastian Gorka). He calls Trump something like "Big Papa," and they shout their approval when he does. It is so sad.

Initech

(100,096 posts)
14. He got kicked off Twitter last year for harassing Leslie Jones.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:53 PM
Feb 2017

And yet he claims its' "free speech". Paying that guy to write a book about free speech is like paying Bill Maher to make a documentary movie about religion.

Boomerproud

(7,961 posts)
11. If trump is so busy watching maybe he'll stop tweeting at 3am and quit signing those
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:49 PM
Feb 2017

idiotic (and possibly unconstitutional) Exec Orders.

Initech

(100,096 posts)
13. It's an empty threat.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 08:51 PM
Feb 2017

If someone with real credentials challenged that troll to a real debate (I'd love to see someone at UC Berkeley do it), he'd go off stage with his tail between his legs.

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