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Alt-Right scumbag Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear on the Legion of Skanks podcast at the @creekandcave on 5/27. In a since-deleted tweet reposted on host Luis J. Gomez's Instagram, the show may have been moved at Milo's request. Others are reporting the show has movedpic.twitter.com/zjwYjpoUSC
Even if the podcast w/ Milo changes venues or dates, we would like to address the decision to give Milo a platform. Many fans of the podcast are echoing the defense given by Legion of Skanks podcast host @luisjgomez on a livestream he did recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcKt2NeKIYg …
Luis: Milo is a troll, he's so good he got kicked off Twitter for trolling Leslie Jones! NYC Antifa: Milo harassed a black woman by calling her an ape & encouraged his followers to do the same. Hackers inspired by Milo leaked her intimate photos.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/leslie-jones-website-suffers-massive-hack-with-personal-photos-and-information-leaked-a7208121.html …
Luis: People say he supports dangerous language & promotes violence. I haven’t seen that. NYC Antifa: Milo tweets about gunning journalists down. He defended the massacre in Christchurch--saying it was a response to "barbaric, alien religious cultures."http://www.ktvu.com/news/milo-yiannopoulos-texts-about-gunning-journalists-down-2-days-before-capital-gazette-shooting …
Luis: My defense is that I don’t care about politics. He says fucked up shit & does it in an entertaining way.” NYC Antifa: This was literally Milo's entire schtick at Breitbart--using the deniability of 'entertainment' to make white nationalism platable.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism …
Luis: It's bullshit for people to say Legion of Skanks gives people in the Alt Right a platform NYC Antifa: Milo helped create the Alt-Right & called *himself* a fellow traveller. Having him on gives the Alt Right a platform. He's literally on yr platform.https://www.salon.com/2018/04/22/how-the-u-s-became-troll-nation-from-gamergate-to-the-rise-of-trump/ …
Luis: Our critics aren't our fans. They already call us Nazis. Also Luis: Skanks fans were saying “Fuck this guy, why are you having this guy on?" Also Luis: "If Hitler...wanted to sit down and do the Legion of Skanks podcast...you better fucking believe we'd have him on."
Luis: We're not going to talk about policy, we just want people who say outrageous dumb things and laugh. NYC Antifa: The dumb outrageous things Milo says have real life consequences. He hides behind "comedy" as a way to get away w/ doing harm to people.https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UC-warns-campus-group-Yiannopoulos-event-could-10901517.php …
There's more to respond to, but we're tired of all the bad arguments. Luis is like a lot of people who think that entertainment is the only thing that matters cuz they don't have to experience the consequences of what the people inspired, egged on, and radicalized by Milo will do
We wrote about the Chief of Staff of Identity Evropa, Matthew Warner. IE with Warner helped organize Unite the Right in Charlottesville, where Heather Heyer was killed. Warner got his start during GamerGate--even posed with a picture of Milo Yiannopoulos. https://identifyevropa.org/matthew-robert-warner-gamergate-identity-evropa/ …pic.twitter.com/PpUmsGoxdr
People have a life & death stake in allowing the Far Right to tell their "jokes." Trolling has real life consequences. Not everything is worth the laugh. We hope @creekandcave & all other venues will deplatform Milo. We hope the podcast will do the right thing, but prolly not.
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