After being de-platformed by nearly every social network on Earth, Milo Yiannopoulos briefly distracted himself from being millions of dollars in debt by campaigning for Carl Benjamin, an anti-feminist, anti-Muslim, far-right British political candidate who supports the pro-Brexit UK Independence Party, thinks Jews should get over the Holocaust and that right-wingers shouldn’t act like “f*ggots” and “white n*ggers.”
In short, Benjamin is exactly the sort of person Yiannopoulos loves making pals with. But as some British protestors have taken to throwing milkshakes at right-wing figures as a way to show displeasure with their politics, Yiannopoulos recently got milkshaked too. “Lay down with dogs” and all that.
After being spattered in a bit of milkshake, Yiannopoulos joked, “It’s the second time I’ve been covered in chocolate this week.” Perhaps that’s a racialized reference to his black husband? Who knows. He likes making jokes about black man-sex.
Anyway, here’s a video of Yiannopoulos being milkshaked:
Before we get back to Yiannopoulos, let’s hear a little from a London-based security consultant Dan Kaszeta about how milkshaking became the U.K.’s preferred form of sticky political protest:
“Here in the United Kingdom, milkshakes have replaced eggs as the protest projectile of choice. Activists have poured milkshakes on right-wing candidates for the European Parliament, resulting in some heated rhetoric. The Brexit Party leader and milkshaking victim Nigel Farage, for example, characterized the fad as a sign that “civilized democracy” no longer works. Police asked a McDonald’s in Edinburgh to stop selling milkshakes; angry pundits online accused Burger King of endorsing violence because it refused to stop selling them.”
Kaszeta ultimately concludes that “throwing a milkshake, while fundamentally inappropriate, uncivil, and possibly criminal (depending on the jurisdiction), isn’t the same thing as throwing a brick or shooting a rifle.” So there’s that.
As for Yiannopoulos, he’s likely touring around the U.K. to maintain his public profile seeing as he can’t really do it online anymore. He’s gotta pay off those million dollar debts somehow.
Hdtex
Should have been gasoline.
kernowcraig
NO! I despise these people with a passion, but comments like that fuel the hate. You’re never going to get people to listen to your argument when you report to these methods, you just harden opinion!
ShiningSex
Right wing people are disgusting. Milo is just a pedo. He’s vile. Anyone that supports him or that movement are just racist, self-loathing a**holes.
broadshoulder
Whatever you do..
Don’t let him inside the United Kingdom… Ever again
dwes09
Milo is a British citizen.
They would be hard pressed to keep him out without conviction of some crime.
david_warner
Why wasn’t it a brick?
Doug
I hope the narcissistic little cretin stays in the UK.
SportGuy
Waste of a good milkshake. That trailer trash isn’t worth it.
truthseeker
I’m not surprised. The leftists on here are advocating for extreme violence against a gay man just because they don’t agree with his opinions on issues. One person says to burn him alive, another says to beat his head in with a brick.
So much for love trumps hate
redzebra1
Lol, throwing a milkshake ‘extreme violence’? What rot! GO BACK TO BRIETBART!
truthseeker
@redzebra1
Reading comprehension must not be a skill you mastered. I said about the comments on this article advocating for violence. You had issue with my comment but no issue with the person saying to cover him in gasoline and burn him or the person saying to hit him with a brick.
Just because you don’t agree with someone it doesn’t give you the right the physically harm them or even to throw a milkshake on them
Cam
Translation: The account is desperately defending somebody who advocates for bigoted and hateful policies against LGBTQ people by trying to claim that the bigot is the victim.
Go away.
truthseeker
@Cam (DCguy)
You’re a terrible translator
I’m saying that physically attacking people you disagree with is never an answer. I don’t agree with you and don’t like that you use multiple accounts on here but I’d never cheer someone on to hit you with a brick or cover you in gasoline
If you want to attack someone you disagree with, then use words by proving their points wrong with facts, figures, and sound argument. Not punches, bricks, gasoline, or milkshakes
gymmuscleboy
The guy who threw the milkshake deserves to be arrested. Hopefully he ends up in jail.
Gary Q VV
@truthseeker doing what he seeks most in life: any type of attention.
truthseeker
@Gary Q VV
How is condemning calls for violence (throwing a brick at someone) seeking attention? It’s very telling that you have issue with me condemning violence and not with the commenters suggesting violence is an answer.
In another comment below, you say that it’s okay to throw food at people you disagree with politically. If that’s the clown world rules we should follow, then does that mean people who disagree with gays should be allowed to throw food on them in public?
Just because you don’t like someone, it doesn’t give you the right to throw things at them
QueerTruth
Queerty, please stop coverage. He’s a joke. He doesn’t need free press. Thanks
Creamsicle
Milo is a terrible person with stupid ideas and no ability to defend them.
But do we really need to resort to throwing things at him? He’s already been largely defanged. He’s already broke to the point of hawking vitamins because they’re an unregulated product that people will pay stupid amounts of money for. His book was cancelled and he resorted to self-publishing it. Predictably, it went nowhere, especially thanks to his remarks defending pederasty. Alt-righters are anti-intellectual and would never read a book anyway.
It’s sad that he bought into his own hype and never realized that the alt-right only kept him around for the sake of tokenism. Milo played himself and has nobody but himself to blame for his awful decisions.
Cam
The fact that Sarah Sanders stopped giving press briefings soon after she was embarrassed by being asked to leave a restaurant makes me thing…yes. Confronting these monsters let’s them know that there are penalties for being horrible bigots.
Kangol2
I don’t advocate violence against anyone. Let’s not forget that targeted violence based on race, religion, sexuality, gender, class, etc. has a long and hideous history in the US, Europe and elsewhere. It should surprise no one that the Nazis’ earliest targets for forced sterilization were mixed-race children in the Rhineland, and for brutal street attacks were people on the Left (Communists, Socialists, etc.), Jewish people, other conspicuous religious minorities, and non-white residents of Germany, including people from Germany’s few overseas colonies (like Namibia). Violence begets violence, and Lord knows, LGBTQ people have been the targets many times in the past and continue to be targeted today. Ignore and boycott Milo Y., don’t buy his books, don’t attend his talks, but don’t go the shake-throwing route, because it may shake-throwing on one side today, and bullets and bombs on the other tomorrow.
gymmuscleboy
The commenters here who advocate assaulting anyone with milkshakes, bricks, or gasoline, are a small, noisy minority of violent people who do not represent the gay community.
Gary Q VV
Bravo! People need to know that:
“a pie in the face of Anita Bryant”,
“confronting gullible nobodies in powerfully influential positions as Sarah Sanders”, and,
“milkshakes on attention seeking hate-filled clowns as Milo Yiannopoulos”,
are fair game to be protested against using non-violent acts, e.g., a pie, or verbal demand, or milkshake. The question might be asked: “What would happen if someone threw a milkshake on another?” Simple answer: “If no eye damage & clothes were cleanable, nothing.
If medical treatment were necessary, or clothes uncleanable, eye damage would be classified as physical assault and reported to appropriate authorities, then, one should ask for wardrobe reimbursement, and refer to your attorney.
I’m aware of the current laws that say, “you even so much as touch my arm, the Police will arrest you for assault”. But that’s another absurdity to comment on later.