Self-described troll and conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News on Feb. 21, but his far-right speeches and provocative comments aren't going anywhere. (Peter Stevenson\/The Washington Post) <\/p>\n
Update: Milo Yiannopoulos resigned from Breitbart News Tuesday. In a statement, he said the decision was \"mine alone,\" though The Washington Post's David Weigel and Robert Costa previously reported that \"by late Monday afternoon, there were ongoing discussions at Breitbart about Yiannopouloss future at the company.\" <\/p>\n
Here is Yiannopouloss full statement: <\/p>\n
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Milo Yiannopoulos claims to hate political correctness. He is about to feel the pain of livingwithout its benefits. <\/p>\n
Despite all of Yiannopoulos'stalk, the reality is that the Breitbart News editor has thrived on political correctness. He built his brand not by saying substantive things but by demanding that he be allowed to say whatever he wants whileexploiting the fear that nothing couldbe seen asmore politically incorrect than appearing to deny his right to free speech. <\/p>\n
That fear the worry that shutting up Yiannopoulos will make you look like an enemy of the First Amendment faded over the weekend when the Conservative Political Action Conference canceled a scheduled speech by the professional provocateur after remarks he made last year about sex involving adults and underage teens resurfaced online. <\/p>\n
[CPAC rescinds Yiannopoulos invitation amid social media uproar] <\/p>\n
In one interview from January 2016, Yiannopoulos shared his viewthat pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature. <\/p>\n
The controversyalso prompted Threshold Editions, a Simon & Schuster imprint that publishes conservative authors, to pull the plug on a book by Yiannopoulos that was scheduled for release in June. <\/p>\n
Yiannopoulos has never been a sophisticated voice in conservative politics. He has made a career out of being the gay immigrant who tellshis Breitbart audience that it is okay to use gay slurs and discriminate against immigrants. Yet he is remarkably skilled at convincing others that shutting out his kind of intolerance is a kind of intolerance all its own. <\/p>\n
[Milo Yiannopouloss Trumpian rise shows how the GOP is stuck in opposition mode] <\/p>\n
AsYiannopoulos has promoted the idea that PC police are trying to silence him, college after college has agreed to lethim speak on campus.Even the University of California at Berkeley, a beacon of liberalism, granted a student group's request to host Yiannopoulos earlier this month. A protest that turned violent forced the event's cancellation at the last minute, but the university said in a statement that it felt bound by the Constitution, the law, our values, and the campus's Principles of Community to enable free expression across the full spectrum of opinion and perspective. <\/p>\n
Bound is the key word there. Yiannopoulos knows that people and institutions feel bound to let him talk because of their commitment to free speech and, yes, because of political correctness. Free speech and political correctness have long been Yiannopoulos's best weapons in his relentless PR push. <\/p>\n
Now, however, no one will feel bound to givea microphone to someone who thinks sex between a grown man and an underage boy can be consensual. No one will feel bound to amplify a voice that even CPAC deemed unworthy of inclusion. <\/p>\n
Until this weekend, the politically correct thing to do was to just let Yiannopoulos talk. Not anymore. <\/p>\n
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