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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 8, 2025

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This is a high level bad take.

He want to Universities and spoke to everyone. Most college kids are dumb now - what can you do?

Milo was a piece of shit asshole - Kirk was a kid who started a company that became defining for a generation.

Kirk was a completely nice, normal conservative.

He represents the best of ‘ that side ‘ imo. That side being people on the right.

I don't see how Milo was such a piece of shit relative to Kirk, unless we're judging specifically by how much we personally agree with their political opinions. Milo was also successful, for a time, until he crashed out by ending up on the wrong side of the right-wing pedo craze if my memory serves correctly.

he crashed out by ending up on the wrong side of the right-wing pedo craze if my memory serves correctly.

Not exactly. Specifically, he was promoting relationships between older gay men and teenage boys ( even 13 years old), as someone who'd had sex with a man when aged 13 and liked it and thought it was a hugely important part of the gay experience.

I think he'd got used to the idea that being gay allowed him to get away with being a shock jockey and didn't get where the limits of that were.

Yiannopoulos has been accused of advocating paedophilia after the emergence of several video clips in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adults can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for such boys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos

"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," Yiannopoulos said on the podcast. "They can be hugely positive experiences."

In the video, Yiannopoulos claimed it wasn't pedophilia as some 13 years olds are "sexually mature," saying "we get hung up on this child abuse stuff."

(...)

"And you know what, I'm grateful for Father Michael, I wouldn't give nearly such good head if it wasn't for him."

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-green-milo-yiannopoulos-pedophilia-remarks-1713391

Yeah, fair enough.

The most hilarious thing about this situation for me was that, for about a year preceding this, Milo's leftist critics kept trying to justify using violence against him in public speaking events because he had harmful opinions and such. Liberals kept pointing out both how evil that is and how counterproductive that is for shutting someone down. And, indeed, when Milo got got, it was entirely because he was given free speech with which to speak his mind and discredit himself in the eyes of enough people who supported him to get him shut down. Precisely as the liberals said would play out of you just give bigots like him loudspeakers and let them speak their mind.

you just give bigots like him loudspeakers and let them speak their mind

Broadly I agree with you - thus LiberalsOfTikTok but Milo didn’t get cancelled for being bigoted but for being much, much too open.

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