Milo Yiannopoulos, avenger of the notoriously vulnerable group middle-class white men, has been canned from the Conservative Political Action Conference after videos resurfaced of him seemingly defending the sexual abuse of children on conservative website, Reagan Battalion.
In the uncut video, Yiannopoulos expresses that he thinks “Paedophilia is NOT a sexual attraction to somebody thirteen years old who is sexually mature.”
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.
“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.
When this video came to the attention of the CPAC organisers, they withdrew their invitation.
“Due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning paedophilia, the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation,” the group’s chairman, Matt Schlapp, said in a statement on Monday.
Yiannopoulos took to Facebook to defend himself on Sunday and again on Monday – important to note he probably chose this platform because his notoriously hateful, incessant trolling had him permanently blocked from Twitter.
“A note for idiots: I do not support paedophilia. Period,” Yiannopoulos wrote. “It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst. There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a co-ordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.”
He updated the status to shoulder some of the blame.
“I’m partly to blame,” he wrote. “My own experiences as a victim led me to believe I could say anything I wanted to on this subject, no matter how outrageous.
I shouldn’t have used the word ‘boy’ when I talked about those relationships between older men and younger gay men. (I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.)”
“We initially extended the invitation knowing that the free speech issue on college campuses is a battlefield where we need brave, conservative standard-bearers,” Schlapp said in the statement, which was released in the early afternoon.
“We continue to believe that CPAC is a constructive forum for controversies and disagreements among conservatives, however there is no disagreement among our attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children.”
This warped view on consent isn’t Yiannopoulos’s first unconventional statement about sexual assault.
While on the Joe Rogan show, Yiannopoulos says that a woman being touched on the breast without consent, “is a way of bragging … it’s not sexual assault.”
“Our parents’ generation would’ve turned around and said keep your f***ing hands to yourself and moved on with their lives. They wouldn’t have gone into university administration and tried to destroy the guy’s life over it. It’s not that big a deal.”
Interesting that he was invited to talk at CPAC after that particular talk, but anyway…
Unfortunately for most of humanity, Yiannopoulos’ book has also been cancelled.
Where will we get our moral compass from now?
