Breaking: Simon & Schuster (Finally) Cancels Milo’s Quarter-Million Dollar Book Deal
‘After Careful Consideration’
Milo Yiannopoulos‘ support of the so-called “alt-right” movement – including white nationalism and white supremacism – wasn’t grounds for Simon & Schuster to cancel his $250,000 book deal. Milo’s racist crusade against actress and comedian Leslie Jones (of SNL fame) which got him permanently banned from Twitter wasn’t enough to cancel the deal. His comments attacking transgender people on Bill Maher’s HBO show weren’t sufficiently disgusting to cancel his book deal.
It took the re-surfacing of comments he made in 2015 that defend the statutory rape of teen boys, possibly as young as 13 or 14, for Simon & Schuster to cancel his book deal, which the company announced after 5 PM on Presidents’ Day.
Here’s a tweet from Simon & Schuster’s “pr guy,” as he describes himself:
Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
— (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017
Yes, you read that right. It took “careful consideration” for them to take in all the vile and disgusting things Yiannopoulos has said and done, but the sex with teens thing finally crossed the line.
Publishers Weekly also notes the cancellation:
Simon & Schuster is canceling the publication of ‘Dangerous’ by Milo Yiannopoulos “After careful consideration.” Full story coming soon.
— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) February 20, 2017
Not his rubbing elbows with and empowering racism, misogyny, white nationalism, white supremacism, transphobia, and more.
Good to see Simon & Schuster finally revealed what their line in the sand is.
For the backstory on all this, see our Milo archives.
UPDATE:
Milo posts on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/posts/851968688274361
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