EXERCISING YOUR 1ST AMENDMENT

[HairOfTheDog]

It was in response to the Berkeley protests. I don't support those breaking the law but I do support those kids who didn't want a well known white supremacist speaking at their school and then to see the Prez threaten the school was pretty fucked up.

I'd never watched Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos in action because racist fact-free bullshit doesn't interest me. But, Bill Maher had him on his show last Friday and I watched the episode.


He was clearly a troll pandering to the most intolerant and looking for personal attention. A younger male version of Ann Coulter, only not as good at it and not as smart. That so many men in the U.S. and elsewhere were getting their edited news from Yiannopoulos and believing it is pretty sad.

I can understand why the students at Berkeley didn't want to hear his crap or support his legitimization by having him speak on their campus too, and I agree that didn't justify setting fires and breaking the law -- don't wanna listen to the asshole, don't attend his speech.

Anyway, I'm sure plenty of people were happy to see him go down hard this week. A tape of him advocating pedophilia emerged and that's where the 'conservatives' on the far right finally drew the line. He lost his speaking engagements, his book deal was pulled, and he was forced to resign (in a tizzy, of course) from Breitbart.

I don't doubt he'll find an audience somewhere else and remain in the limelight, but I do doubt that speaking engagements at reputable institutions and conferences are in his future.