According to reports on Thursday, nobody except Milo Yiannopoulous was particularly thrilled to hear that the alt-right creeper has landed a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editors, a Simon & Schuster imprint.
Gloating to The Hollywood Reporter, Yiannopoulous crowed, “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the opposite has happened.”
“Did it hurt Madonna being banned from MTV in the 1900s? Did all that negative press hurt Donald Trump‘s chances of winning the election?”
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As you no doubt remember, Yiannopoulous was permanently banned from Twitter during the Ghostbusters backlash for haranguing Leslie Jones under the handle @Nero.
Regarding the ban, a Twitter spokesperson said at the time,“People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter.”
But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others.”
According to sources, the $250,000 is merely an advance for Yiannopoulous’s autobiographical book, which will no doubt center on his experiences working at alt-right website Breitbart News.
“I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year,” Yiannopoulous explains to The Hollywood Reporter, “and spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building — but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.”
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For those who aren’t familiar with Yiannopoulous, he regularly pens articles for alt-right website Breitbart with headlines like “How To Make Women Happy: Uninvent The Washing Machine And The Pill,” and “The Solution To Online ‘Harassment’ Is Simple: Women Should Log Off”.
Right now, Twitter is reacting to the news with outrage, threats to ban or stop reviewing Simon & Schuster books, or, in the case of the alt-right, praising the development. (All of which is unfortunately exactly what Yiannopoulous wants.)
.@simonschuster are you concerned $250k book deal you gave Milo Yiannopoulos will read as condoning the racist harassment @Lesdoggg endured?
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) December 29, 2016
I dislike Milo very much considering his stance on fat shaming.
But your outrage at his book deal only grants him a 2nd book deal, fyi.
— Boogie2988 (@Boogie2988) December 30, 2016
If you didn’t hate Milo so relentlessly, he wouldn’t be a right-wing martyr with a $250k book deal rn, lol.
Dude’s a professional troll.
— Backthony Soontano (@theneedledrop) December 29, 2016
I’ll not be blurbing any more @simonschuster books. So please don’t bother sending them to me. https://t.co/LYsdU9of3s via @thr
— S J Watson (@SJ_Watson) December 29, 2016
@markdice sextalk is ok if its from a democrat. bring on lena dunham, thats politically correct.
— laura rubin (@laurarubin7) December 29, 2016
Congrats to Simon & Schuster for signing Milo Yiannopoulos to a $250.000 book deal. We’re all looking forward to “Alt-Kampf.”
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 29, 2016
Disgusted that @simonschuster gave a lucrative book deal to Milo Yiannopoulos. Repulsive.
— Peter Huestis (@RealSparklePony) December 29, 2016
Mo Bro
Funny how those who purport to be in favor of tolerance and free speech are suddenly calling for the censorship of a gay man.
Heywood Jablowme
I for one wonder what the typical “alt-right” stormtrooper thinks of Milo. They hate gay men so how does he confirm/contradict their stereotypes? And what exactly is the point of his minstrel act? Not that I would BUY his book, but yeah I might possibly sneak a peek at the library!
@Mo Bro: For once I agree with you. Publishers nowadays are all struggling to stay in business. Seems like a hysterical overreaction to boycott all Simon & Schuster books.
inbama
The LGB movement was never ideological. Democrat, Republican, Libertarian – no matter what, if you were L,G or B, you were part of it, and this is why it has been a success.
The LGBTQIA “community” requires that you subscribe to “Transfeminism.” Thiks has opened us all up to criticism as “leftist” and “language police.”
It should have been enough for all of us to be for the right of trans people to live as the sex or gender as they pleased with necessary legal protections, but we decided to define sex/gender etc. for everyone and insist that every child be able to invent their own genders and be called “hen’ or “they” or whatever nonsense they demand.
I hate Milo, but we deserve him.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Anthony Fantano is correct as usual (excepting all his album review scores)
#Alt-left
Paco
I guess it is some strange type of progress that the alt-right have embraced an effeminate gay man. It must be quite the conundrum for them.
Kieran
Why doesn’t the Chicago Review of Book just have a giant book burning of Milo’s books?
Incredible. These people don’t seem to have the foggiest notion of what the United States is supposed to stand for. Hint: Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, tolerance of people who differ from you. And ironically these are the people who are constantly talking about “McCarthyism” this and “McCarthyism” that. If they could they’d probably blacklist and/or jail everybody they disagree with politically.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Mo Bro: I agree but he’s the gay version of Dr. Laura with his views towards homosexuality and gay parenting. I think he believes that homosexuality is a choice. That kind of thinking is dangerous because it leads gay teens to despair and ultimately (and unfortunately) suicide because they can’t change. If the media wants to perpetuate that kind of ignorance and hate onto gay people, let them. There’s a huge gay audience for that way of thinking. And, that hopefully gay teens are strong enough to not believe what this guy or his gay and straight fans have to say about homosexuality. So, they don’t blame themselves, hurt themselves or kill themselves.
kille310
@inbama: exactly. LGB wasnt a political idiology, today its been hijacked and serves the interest of lobby groups and political parties.
kille310
and btw this happened: Milo Yiannopoulos’ just-announced book hits No. 1 on Amazon
PoetDaddy
In the interests of free speech, I will not boycott Simon & Schuster, as totally despicable as they are. On the other hand, I will certainly put Milo FUCKBRAINS on my wish list for 2017 obituaries.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@kille310: Exactly, there’s a huge audience for him. Lots of gays believe in him and not just for his stance on Islam because anybody with two functioning brain cells would agree with him on that. They agree with his views on gay parenting is harmful to kids, gay is a choice, etc. And, you have these anti-gay people and groups who love him because here you have a gay man saying what they say about gays. They love that, because it justifies there beliefs. My concern is just gay kids who are impressionable who listen to this guy and his fans and not realize that these people are just assholes.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
*their beliefs.
Kangol
@Mo Bro: Don’t be so politically correct. Neo-Nazi wannabe Yiannopolis can dish out the criticism so he should be able to take it. Will he write about allegedly getting d!cked down by black guys while supporting people who think black people are inferior? I guess we’ll have to wait till he vomits up his garbage and Simon & Schuster publish it or it gets leaked.
Brian
I love how Milo exposes the intolerant behavior of the Left.
He has exposed feminism and identity politics in general.
Juanjo
@Mo Bro: there is no free speech right involved here now is there? Read the constitution before you post, sweet cheeks. Free speech does not mean you get to say whatever you want and not be criticized for it. Simon & Schuster is not the US government, they are a private company. It’s called the free market, look it up.
It amuses me how idiots really do not get the basics. Tolerance means we don’t try to kill Milo for what he said or have the government lock him up, or assault him in the streets. It does not mean that we simply give him a pass for being a complete wanker. Kind of like you in fact – a wanker that is.
SFHandyman
He should be able to publish. Simon and Schuster are going to make a mint because not only will his fans and many of his enemies read it. Breitbart and their associates will probably buy the book in bulk just to piss off the regressive Control Left.
I’ve always been very liberal but the blanket support of the repressive and hateful religion of Islam has really pushed me away. My left is supposed to support freedom and humanism, not the medieval chains of religion.
We are also supposed to support free speech, not shouting down speakers or getting them banned.
I got banned from a liberal news site because I posted one comment asking them to remove the names of a bunch of average Joe’s who were accused of trying to buy sex with consenting adult women. They considered the story to be news because the sting caught a district attorney. But they dragged in the poor guys who were also scooped up. Isn’t the Left supposed to be against sex shaming and laws that punish consensual sex between adults?
I hope both sides stop supporting the ultra polorizing positions.
Paco
@SFHandyman: I have to admit that I have been finding myself being nudged toward the center on a lot of issues, because even the slightest off script remark gets massive blowback from “my side”. The far left and far right are strangling themselves to death.
The Tower of Power
@Brian: The left’s intolerance of him is based in sound law because private citizens have every right to condemn or tolerate anyone they want. It’s the government that needs to tolerate everyone and enforce equality under the law.
dwes09
@Mo Bro: What is funny is how you seem not to understand the difference between free speech and expressing a different opinion. Tolerance does not mean you smile when some ugly self hating fag (metaphorically) spits in your face. It means you spit back metaphorically, and perhaps take advantage of legal methods to minimize his economic gains. White boy, you are a caution!! You provide lot o’laughs. Like so many of your alt right ilk, you likely felt it was intolerant of my kind when we objected to the gas chambers and the ovens.
dwes09
@Heywood Jablowme: “I for one wonder what the typical “alt-right” stormtrooper thinks of Milo. They hate gay men so how does he confirm/contradict their stereotypes?”
Look at him.He does not contradict their stereotypes, he is a fag twink as they think we all are inside. He mirrors their misogyny, in that they desire women sexually but dislike the ways in which they differ from their buds. They think him sexless and he amuses them, like a eunuch. But were he to accidentally come on to one of them or even make too dangerous an innuendo they would be more than happy to beat the shit out of him, because “that fag needs to know his place”, just like they would do to an uppity woman.
He is a court jester and an “uncle tom”. There is no respect there, and as he is a cynical hack driven by $$$ that is fine with him.
dwes09
@Paco: He is the court eunuch/court jester. You may be sure there is little real respect for him beyond the ability he gives them to say “look we even accept faggots”.
dwes09
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: ” I agree but he’s the gay version of Dr. Laura”
He is more the gay Ann Coulter, a cynical hack. but in his case he walks a fine line. He is sexless, and if that changes he becomes just another fag in the eyes of the alt-right, and worthy of their disgust. I suspect all he cares about is $$$.
dwes09
@Brian: “I love how Milo exposes the intolerant behavior of the Left.
He has exposed feminism and identity politics in general.”
He is the court eunuch of the right and little more you fool! There is little respect for him. As the left has championed greater enfranchisement for so many disenfranchised groups, please QUANTIFY what exactly you mean by the “intolerant behavior of the left” or be seen even more clearly as the buffoon you are.
And honestly a “man” who constantly trumpets his neurotic hatred of women has no business talking about intolerance! You truelty are a laughing stock.
dwes09
@Juanjo: Thank you!! These right wing folks have no understanding at all of the constitution they claim to love.
The Tower of Power
@SFHandyman: I don’t support Islam, but I do believe in judging people as individuals rather than as a group. Today’s right wants a blanket ban on Muslims from entering the country instead of judging each entrant as an individual, which is what America should do. America is about valuing each person for who he/she is as an individual, not as a member of a group.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@dwes09: Does it matter? They’re all assholes. Good lord. QUEERTY GET A BLOCK BUTTON!!
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
@Heywood Jablowme: He’s a pawn for the alt-right. He’s a Jew for Hitler.
Paco
The sad thing is, all of the outrage and attention he gets for his outrageous brand of politics, only has the effect of increasing the visibility of his brand and enriches him further. His book is already the #1 best seller on Amazon.
nitejonboy
If he were any kind of a man he would donate that money to a gay charity,it’s not like he earned it or anything, but he won’t, because he’s a sick heartless troll.
Transiteer
1. Boycott Simon & Shuster 2. Is $250K all he got?? quite the come-down then isn’t it? Not near enough to satisfy this bitchy queen’s ego.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
The problem is the Left can’t put anyone up to take him on because that would mean having to defend the utter battshittery that’s infiltrated our side. Anyone foolish enough or dissembling enough (which defeats the point) to pass the ideological purity test would soon enough be denounced as some variety of white-supremacist, Uncle Tom , misogynist, cis-supremacist, patriarchy enabler, defender of Empire, privilege-wielding speakers of any number of __’splaining languages, and iinduction among the ever multiplying litany of evil ___phobes. We need to put our own house in order.. which means sending the children to their bedroom where they stamp their little feet untill their tantrum passes and theyre ready to join the grown ups — and NOT handing them fucking microphones and ceding platforms
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Not that that any argument would be effective against someone such like Milo, who has no real principles or any real ideological commitment to anything other than his machiavellian self-interest; and will lie, cheat, con, and change the goalposts to achieve his next pay check.
Brian
A boycott of Simon and Schuster won’t work. I mean, most gays couldn’t get off their fat behinds to maintain other boycotts.
Remember the failed vodka boycott instigated as a result of Russia’s anti-gay-promotion laws? Remember the failed boycott of that Beverly Hills hotel owned by the Sultan of Brunei?
If gay-identifying men could only get off their fat behinds and stop browsing Grindr for a change, they might become effective activits again. Pigs my fly, too.
Brian
In my last line above, it should read:
…effective activists again. Pigs might fly too.
See what happens when you type too fast due to the adrenaline pumping? I always pace my typing to my adrenaline rushes….
James
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: Yours is one of the best responses on a Milo story I’ve seen. I’m consistently surprised by the amount of support he gets both on the right (where his gayness would ordinarily be a liability), and the gay community (whom he mostly shuns). He’s proudly a troll, which should automatically make him an asshole. But for some reason, he’s an anti-hero or something, even though he’s thoroughly vile. There is a silver lining to the dark Milo cloud though: he’s aging out of his own twink demo. He’s entering middle-age, and it shows, so his shallow, vapid “mean girl” act is going to suddenly look very strange coming from a person he’d HIMSELF criticize. He was never as cute as he thought he was either.
The Tower of Power
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: How about Michael Moore? He’s far more successful than Milo is, and he’s smarter and more talented. I’d pay hundreds to see a debate between them.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@The Tower of Power: I don’t entirely trust him either. He plays fast and lose with the facts. That shit is corrosive AF to the public trust and is exactly how we got here in this new post-truth clusterfuck era in the first place. That said, would be popcorn worthy spectacle.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: *loose
Also, above I tagged “Alt-Left” as potentially a non-batshit Left movement to counter the threat of the Alt-Right…. without knowing that “alt-left” is actually already a thing and means the very opposite — namely the very practitioners of said batshittery AKA “SJW” or “regressive left” ..(who can keep up with this shit!?) Anyway, that’s useful because now I don’t have to keep using terms like “SJW” or “regressive” whose provenance — as well as the motives behind the terms’ foremost disseminators *cough Dave Rubin cough*’ I’m increasingly suspicious about. So do we need an “alt-alt-left” or simply a restoration of “Left”???
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@James: He’s amusing and can be genuinely funny sometimes. It’s peevish and petty-minded to say otherwise. I miss when *our* side used to be the fun –- but GOOD (yeah sometimes self righteous too) — Irreverent, boundary pushing and HUMOROUS ones. And that quality to our movement — or ANY movement — should not be underestimated. There is no longer space for a Lenny Bruce or a Bill Hicks. All the non-blue haired cool kids are getting invites to Milo’s house party. That is worrying. The causes of that are worrying. We need to take our shit back before we lose our shit for good.
Ken A.
LOL this is funny. They call him a troll, they call him all sorts of derogatory names and he’s doing something right. He’s making money for being himself. So let him write the book, who cares. That Coulter woman writes lots of books. I’m sure he’ll have his audience.
The Tower of Power
I got kicked out of Barnes and noble because I moved the bibles to the fiction area.
BriBri
@PoetDaddy: Gee how tolerant, you’re the exact kind of trash Milo rales about.
1EqualityUSA
Tower of Power, “I got kicked out of Barnes and Noble because I moved the Bibles to the fiction area.” So fun.
Brian, “adrenalin rush?” Can I be grossed out even more? I still do not buy Budweiser beer, and this was 70’s early 80’s.
dwes09, always a pleasure. “You’re a caution.” Love it.
The guy who wrote the alt-right book looks so mean, James-Bond-villainy-mean. I doubt his words are enlightened. Words are powerful. Much damage is wrought. He may live to regret his life’s work, even if he garners much.
Durwood
He’s a bit of a tool and enjoy’s trolling. Myself, as a leftie, I fail to recognise why he’s being demonised.
nathan_dostal
@Mo Bro: youre confused-we have never been about tolerating hate speech
nathan_dostal
@Baba Booey Fafa Fooey: very few gays follow him or support him. Islam is fine with gays.
nathan_dostal
@Durwood: youre obviously clueless about what he says-look up his hate speech