Was Just Named Key Speaker at CPAC
Conservatives once again playing with matches and gasoline have an explosion on their hands. A video has surfaced that appears to show Milo Yiannopoulos actively defending underage sex, including sex with young teens. Yiannopoulos, who has been described in the media as a figurehead of the so-called ‘alt-right’ movement, is a professional provocateur and a senior editor for Breitbart, the far right wing website whose former publisher, Steve Bannon, is now the White House Chief Strategist.
This weekend Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, the group that produces the annual far right wing confab known as CPAC, was forced to defend his choice of inviting Milo as a key (although he says not keynote, as has been widely reported) speaker:
Milo’s “fighting back” includes getting banned from Twitter for what the Washington Post called his “racist abuse campaign” against actress and comedian Leslie Jones. It also includes attacking trans people on Bill Maher. And that’s just for starters.
His “Dangerous Faggot Tour” of college campuses draws sometimes violent demonstrations, although who the violent demonstrators are has been questioned.
Sunday night news broke that a video reportedly showing Milo defending underage sex was unearthed.Â
In the video (full transcript) he calls 13-year olds “sexually mature” and defends sex between even young teenagers, like 13 year olds, and older men. To be clear, that is legally called rape. But in the video he says, “I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.”
He also says, “I think particularly in the gay world and outside the Catholic church, if that’s where some of you want to go with this, I think in the gay world, some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys they can even save those young boys, from desolation, from suicide (people talk over each other)… providing they’re consensual.”
Again, legally, they are not consensual. They are rape, they are abuse, and should be denounced and treated as such.
Here’s a short one-minute clip an a longer five-minute clip of the discussion:
CPAC has not uninvited him nor apologized.
On Twitter, many are furious:
UPDATE:Â CPAC Rescinds Invite to Right Wing Provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos for Video ‘Condoning Pedophilia’
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