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is there evidence that Yiannopolus associated himself with white supremacists? because every piece of material I’ve seen has been about free-speech and social-j
by holler 8y ago
is there evidence that Yiannopolus associated himself with white supremacists? because every piece of material I’ve seen has been about free-speech and social-justice, often questioning the said association created by media
- xyz0 8y ago"Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream" (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-h...) Here's one of many relevant excerpts: > These new emails and documents, however, clearly show that Breitbart does more than tolerate the most hate-filled, racist voices of the alt-right. It thrives on them, fueling and being fueled by some of the most toxic beliefs on the political spectrum — and clearing the way for them to enter the American mainstream. > It’s a relationship illustrated most starkly by a previously unreleased April 2016 video in which Yiannopoulos sings “America the Beautiful” in a Dallas karaoke bar as admirers, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer, raise their arms in Nazi salutes.
- Pimpus 8y agoDid you seriously just link to Buzzfeed? No further comment.
- shehryarrr 8y agoBuzzfeed and Buzzfeed News are very different. Your dismissal is pretty ignorant.
- Splognosticus 8y agoNah, guys like this just find video evidence kinda inconvenient since it gives up the game.
- whenchamenia 8y agoThey seem to be converging in quality, based on sloppy biased recent articles and sensationalized headlines from the latter. I think not differentiating the branding better was a mistake, considering buzzfeed is synonymous with clickbait.
- shaki-dora 8y agoSo someone asks for a nexus between Milo and white supremacists, and someone linking a source with a video of him serenading neo-nazis with their arms stretched out gets voted down? The it’s-about-free-speech-not-alt-right-sympathy shtick really needs some update...
- Splognosticus 8y agoI love how not only did he get downvoted to hell for providing actual video evidence that Milo is a literal fucking Nazi, you got downvoted to hell for calling people on that shit. Unfriendly note to all the alt-right shit-for-brains: you're going to lose, because you stupid fucking cumstains always lose. And you in particular will be an especially pathetic footnote in the history of white supremacy. Nobody will miss or even notice when you're gone.
- dang 8y agoWould you please not break the site guidelines by taking HN threads further into ideological flamewar? It's predictable, therefore tedious, therefore off-topic on this site. Even if other comments are already going there, going there worse is not cool. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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- microtherion 8y agoAssuming that "Singing Karaoke while Richard Spencer & co throw up Nazi salutes" qualifies as "associating with white supremacists": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNLPIRS62g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNLPIRS62g
- SEJeff 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Violence_against_journalists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Violence_aga... Free Speech has limits (see Schenk vs United States)
- dragonwriter 8y agoFree speech has limits, but given Schenk was overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio (and arguably by earlier cases, effectively), is an odd case to cite to support that position and explain the actual limits.