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How is Milo not espousing alt right views? He was employed by Breitbart.

stcredzero 9y ago
How is Milo not espousing alt right views? He's an active and vocal critic of the Alt-Right. He devoted an entire chapter of his book to criticism of the Alt-Right. Just what views of his would you cite as "Alt-Right?" Can you back those up with quotes? As far as I can tell, he's an amoral opportunist who will stoop to saying vile things, but he's not Alt-Right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJfibQnTgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJfibQnTgU He was employed by Breitbart. He left.
- chiaro 9y ago
  The leaked emails documenting his correspondence with various alt-right figureheads paints a different picture. https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.uqQ6m0rJR#.itGWAajdp https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...
  - ThomPete 9y ago
    One suggestion. Listen to an interview with him and here he present his opinions. He is provocative but mostly just an annoying showman. His harshest stance is on islam which given he is gay seems fairly understandable. Joe Rogan has a good interview with him (which is the one that got him fired from Breibart.)
    - chiaro 9y ago
      I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.
      - ThomPete 9y ago
        But you don't know how they behave behind closed doors as you only have access to very little and out of context.
- yongjik 9y ago
  I just find it amusing that in a thread about someone who stated maybe all women are genetically less suited to engineering, we are supposed to understand the differences among four or five distinct fringe right-wing ideologies, and refrain from general remarks based on the behaviors of one group or another.
  - ThomPete 9y ago
    Can you please point to anywhere in the memo where he claimed that? I am not asking about your interpretation but where he actually claims that women are genentically less suited for engineering. I hope you realize how important it is to be precise here. The man lost his job for providing feedback as encouraged by HR after he did a diversity course. Just making claims that isn't backed up about by what he is actually saying isn't very helpful.
  - stcredzero 9y ago
    It's actually a thread about someone who didn't state that. You can only emotionally impute that to him. we are supposed to understand the differences among four or five distinct fringe right-wing ideologies No, you're supposed to be informed, and you're not supposed to impute views on others they don't actually have, just because you think you can get away with it. You know, intellectual honesty? refrain from general remarks based on the behaviors of one group or another. Yes, please don't tar people through stereotypes or anything which is not factually or rationally founded. Furthermore, judge people on the merit of what they do and say as individuals. Don't lump people into groups because you are incensed and you feel like it. That sort of behavior is precisely the moral downfall of the Alt-Right.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > He was employed by Breitbart. > He left He resigned under pressure when controversy erupted over his past comments that were viewed as supporting, or at least minimizing the significance of, pedophilia. He didn't leave because he suddenly realized, after years of association, that Breitbart was an alt-right outlet, so the fact that he left is not really germane to what his voluntary association with Breitbart says about his ideology.
  - ThomPete 9y ago
    Actually not really and I would challenge you to say exactly what he says that is alt-right. He is a conservative who knows how to provoke that's about it.
ThomPete 9y ago
What neo-nazi, neo-white supremacy, neo-fascist, neo-fascists or another hate-group view have you heard Milo consistently claim? I am aware of his provocations and yes he can be extreme but calling him alt-right while he is at the same time one of the most hated on the alt-right. Breitbart was a more of an alt-media rather than alt-right. He didn't care about peoples political views he was after the existing media.

How is Milo not espousing alt right views? He's an active and vocal critic of the Alt-Right. He devoted an entire chapter of his book to criticism of the Alt-Right. Just what views of his would you cite as "Alt-Right?" Can you back those up with quotes? As far as I can tell, he's an amoral opportunist who will stoop to saying vile things, but he's not Alt-Right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJfibQnTgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJfibQnTgU He was employed by Breitbart. He left.

chiaro 9y ago
The leaked emails documenting his correspondence with various alt-right figureheads paints a different picture. https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.uqQ6m0rJR#.itGWAajdp https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart...
- ThomPete 9y ago
  One suggestion. Listen to an interview with him and here he present his opinions. He is provocative but mostly just an annoying showman. His harshest stance is on islam which given he is gay seems fairly understandable. Joe Rogan has a good interview with him (which is the one that got him fired from Breibart.)
  - chiaro 9y ago
    I've already seen that interview. How people behave behind closed doors is a more trustworthy guide to their sympathies.
    - ThomPete 9y ago
      But you don't know how they behave behind closed doors as you only have access to very little and out of context.
yongjik 9y ago
I just find it amusing that in a thread about someone who stated maybe all women are genetically less suited to engineering, we are supposed to understand the differences among four or five distinct fringe right-wing ideologies, and refrain from general remarks based on the behaviors of one group or another.
- ThomPete 9y ago
  Can you please point to anywhere in the memo where he claimed that? I am not asking about your interpretation but where he actually claims that women are genentically less suited for engineering. I hope you realize how important it is to be precise here. The man lost his job for providing feedback as encouraged by HR after he did a diversity course. Just making claims that isn't backed up about by what he is actually saying isn't very helpful.
- stcredzero 9y ago
  It's actually a thread about someone who didn't state that. You can only emotionally impute that to him. we are supposed to understand the differences among four or five distinct fringe right-wing ideologies No, you're supposed to be informed, and you're not supposed to impute views on others they don't actually have, just because you think you can get away with it. You know, intellectual honesty? refrain from general remarks based on the behaviors of one group or another. Yes, please don't tar people through stereotypes or anything which is not factually or rationally founded. Furthermore, judge people on the merit of what they do and say as individuals. Don't lump people into groups because you are incensed and you feel like it. That sort of behavior is precisely the moral downfall of the Alt-Right.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> He was employed by Breitbart. > He left He resigned under pressure when controversy erupted over his past comments that were viewed as supporting, or at least minimizing the significance of, pedophilia. He didn't leave because he suddenly realized, after years of association, that Breitbart was an alt-right outlet, so the fact that he left is not really germane to what his voluntary association with Breitbart says about his ideology.
- ThomPete 9y ago
  Actually not really and I would challenge you to say exactly what he says that is alt-right. He is a conservative who knows how to provoke that's about it.

ThomPete 9y ago

What neo-nazi, neo-white supremacy, neo-fascist, neo-fascists or another hate-group view have you heard Milo consistently claim? I am aware of his provocations and yes he can be extreme but calling him alt-right while he is at the same time one of the most hated on the alt-right. Breitbart was a more of an alt-media rather than alt-right. He didn't care about peoples political views he was after the existing media.