Milo Yiannopoulos, avenger of the notoriously vulnerable group middle-class white men, spoke at Parliament house today.
Why was a man that’s banned by Twitter – a platform that won’t even ban Donald Trump – given a soapbox at the House on the Hill? To slam feminists and defend ~~hate~~ free speech with a predictably antagonistic and mundane speech.
Noble defenders of section 18C Cory Bernardi, Mark Latham and Pauline Hanson were championing Milo’s “controversial” take, but that’s what confuses me.
Latham likened gay marriage to mind control, Hanson warned marriage equality could lead to polygamy and underage marriages and Bernardi linked it to bestiality. Openly gay Yiannopoulos has extremely sketchy views on paedophilia, making him an exceptionally unlikely champion of these Aussie politicians.
Earlier this year, he was canned from the Conservative Political Action Conference after videos resurfaced of him seemingly defending the sexual abuse of children on conservative website, Reagan Battalion.
He thinks that laws concerning consent are, “probably about right,” but “some are capable of giving consent at a younger age.”
“Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the coming of age relationships, the relationships in which those older men give them security and safety, and provide them with love…”
“It sounds like catholic priest molestation to me,” responded to one of the conservative hosts of the show.
WATCH: The video concerning consent below.
“And you know what, I’m grateful for Father Michael, I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him,” Yiannopoulos flippantly replied.
Even Andrew Bolt has had enough of the self-described “internet supervillain”.
“I thought some of the rudeness, the vitriol, was nasty and I didn’t like it,” he told Steve Price.
“Clementine Ford, he called her un-effable, but he used the whole word. Jessica Rowe, he said she was born a man.
“He said Muslim asylum seekers were skilled at only a few things, including raping women. I thought those things were dreadful, terrible.
“At first I thought ‘Do I walk out or do I go back out and confront him?’, so I chose that one, so I said to him, on stage, ‘I don’t like what you did.’
“[The audience] weren’t on my side, it was obviously it was a bit of a downer to have that said, old father Bolt coming to tell the children to go to bed.”
Bolt is no stranger to attacking both Ford and Muslims, but apparently it’s okay because he doesn’t swear…
What a week.
