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Milo Yiannopoulos holds fake news forum at Cal Poly

April 27, 2018

Milo Yiannopoulos

Controversial political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos and two conservative YouTubers participated in a much-anticipated fake news forum at Cal Poly Thursday evening while numerous police officers stood guard. [Cal Coast Times]

Protesters stood with signs outside the fenced-off Mott Athletic Center, where the College Republicans-sponsored fake news forum took place. The event proceeded peacefully, as did Yiannopoulos’s previous appearance at Cal Poly in which he delivered a speech titled “No More Dead Babies.”

Thursday’s forum followed an aborted fake news panel that was slated to take place in February but was canceled after uproar over the alleged racism of one of the scheduled participants. After other participants backed out of the event, the College Republicans planned their own fake news forum.

Flanked by YouTubers Carl Benjamin, commonly known as Sargon of Akkad, and Austin Fletcher, also known as Fleccas, Yiannopoulos pinpointed social media, and specifically Facebook, as sources of fake news. Yiannopoulos said Facebook is altering people’s brain chemistry, in addition to contributing to the spread of fake news.

The panelists agreed that social media has a significant role in the spreading of fake news, though some also noted the responsibility of social media users to sort out facts from fiction. Likewise, the panelists criticized media for biased reporting.

At the end of the event, Yiannopoulos called Jews in the audience to come up to the stage to received a check. Yiannopoulos said he wanted to donate to Jewish groups at Cal Poly because, in the aftermath of the recent blackface incident, protesters requested that the university provide more funding to cultural groups on campus, with the exception of Zionist organizations.

Yiannopoulos also joked about the blackface incident prior to arriving at Cal Poly. On social media the controversial speaker stated, in light of the “horrific” blackface incident, he was getting the darkest spray tan possible before his talk at Cal Poly.

Then, Yiannopoulos elaborated on the controversy in an interview with KSBY.

“Oh my goodness, somebody dressed up in blackface. It’s the worst racial scandal of the century. Who cares?” Yiannopoulos said. “Maybe it was stupid, maybe it’s the sort of thing that people shouldn’t do in 2018, but it is not worth creating this hysterical moral panic over.”

Yiannopoulos also gave his thoughts on the political climate in San Luis Obispo and at Cal Poly in the KSBY interview.

“I don’t know what it’s about with this sleepy little town,” Yiannoupoulos said. “It looks like a little town from the movies. It’s a very sensible college with a lot of sensible majors, you know, which seems to attract the left wing crazies. Every time I speak here, there seems to be this unnecessary gigantic police presence on the threat of crazies.”


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Who gives a sh!t what this guy has to say? He creates his own news storm as if we need more of that with that idiot in the White House.


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You may ask why I spoke so harshly of these ANTIFA members. This event was attended by individuals who were interested in listening to the speakers. At the end of the event, the attendees peacefully walked out of the venue, some alongside their teenage children. ANTIFA protesters decided to chase these people down, cussed at them and threatened violence upon them. And for what? For attending a speaking event that some found inappropriate or offensive? As much as some of us would disagree (at least in part) with the speakers, it is their right to attend such events. ANTIFA’s antics are tasteless and have no place in this great nation.


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Look into who they’re affiliated with and you’ll not be surprised by anything they do. Tried to recruit me (Craig’s List), yea I know, what? True though; I told the idiot who reached out to me that 1) “I was done (physically) fightin’ stupid ass battles where no one wins!” and “I wouldn’t fight for a communist movement but damn sure would against one, physically, if threatened by one!” Stupid ass!


http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/01/antifa-not-fighting-freedom-communist-revolution/


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I’m happy to see that the young Repubs have hired George Michael as their generational spokesperson. Wake me up before you go, go, cuz Republicans are using Milo!


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SLOnative – No hazard pay. Just a unique opportunity to witness ANTIFA / Black Bloc members being ignorant and making absolute fools of themselves. I’m sure the cops get a kick out of having front row seats to these idiots’ worthless, tragic lives.


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If the people right of center paid more attention to thoughtfull conservatives like Victor Davis Hanson, Michael McFaul, Larry Diamond, etc instead of buffoons like this guy, Hannity, Coulter, etc…we’d be in a much better place to discuss solutions to today’s issues. This guy represents the continued dumbing down of political ideas and people just eat it up.


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What?!!! Wait a minute! Wait just one damn minute there Mr. Milo Yiannopoulos! Aren’t you an openly gay man? You are?! Well it’s the “…left wing crazies” that have fought the hardest for you to have your equal rights; to openly enjoy your sexuality, the right to marry the man you’re married to (and yes, even the right to marry a person of African American decent), to be equally considered in employment and pay, to stand (or sit, or whatever you did at Cal poly) at an American place of higher education and speak as an openly gay man, right?! I don’t care how many times you’ve decried your own sexuality, wishing it would be taken from you, you have taken advantage of every benefit these “…left wing crazies” have fought so hard for you to have. Now you belittle them? And embrace the right? You’re a side show for the right Mr. Yiannopoulos, nothing more than that!


If the common conservative had it their way, you wouldn’t even have the right to exist….


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You are talking about left wingers, not the left wing crazies like Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Black Bloc, and BAM (Byallmeans) who advocate violence and any tactics necessary against their opponents. Milo was talking about these protesters who come to campus with Black Ski Masks, what some call the criminal left crazies. I was there so I knew the context of his comments.


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My mistake. He should have been a little more clear then about who he was referring to or the report should have. I agree with him, Antifa, BAM and Black Bloc have no place in any discussion when both advocate violence. As far as Black Lives Matter? I’m not informed well enough on their movement other than I’ve heard of violence at their protests, from what I’ve read none of which is directly attributed to their membership, and they have spoke against it, other than that I don’t know. Thanks for clearing that up for me.


I stand by the rest of my post.


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In other words, a gay man has to be in lock step with all things left? That’s the problem with both the left and right today, the pressure to eliminate free thinking by the individual. Why can’t a gay man be pro life, or For smaller government. By your argument shouldn’t all African Americans have to be republican since Lincoln was and the southern democrats stood in the way of civil rights for so long?


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copperhead,


I am sure you will agree in thanking ALL Christians in not following ALL of their bible’s godly words relative to gays, as so Jesus states herewith:


“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” (Leviticus 20:13)


“For this cause God gave them up into vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet . . . Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them” (Romans 1:26-27)


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Is any of which you spew about in my post? Nope! I never questioned his stance on abortion, as I’m very much pro-life myself, nor his call for smaller government as I’d like very much to see that as well (in this country though, with corporations runnin’ the show, not the people let alone the government, you can only hope that some government is in-between me and their profits first and to hell with everything else approach to capitalism). The only reason I brought up an African-American man is because he is in fact married to one, something the right fought against for generations!


And to solidify your argument you use the racist Republican Abraham Lincoln? Really? Not much secondary education there copperhead? Here let an eighth grade dropout enlighten you (with the help of a Harvard historian and, well, Lincoln himself)…


“Whereas abolition was a central aspect of Lincoln’s moral compass”, the Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates wrote in 2009, “racial equality was not”:


“Lincoln despised slavery as an institution, an economic institution that discriminated against white men who couldn’t afford to own slaves and, thus, could not profit from the advantage in the marketplace that slaves provided. At the same time, however, he was deeply ambivalent about the status of black people vis-à-vis white people, having fundamental doubts about their innate intelligence and their capacity to fight nobly with guns against white men in the initial years of the Civil War. Lincoln certainly embraced anti-black attitudes and phobias in his early years and throughout his debates with Douglas in the 1858 Senate race. By the end of the Civil War, Lincoln was on an upward arc, perhaps heading toward becoming the man he has since been mythologized as being: the Great Emancipator, the man who freed, and loved, the slaves. But his journey was certainly not complete on the day that he died. Abraham Lincoln wrestled with race until the end.”


“I will say then, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters of the negroes, or jurors, or qualifying them to hold office, of having them to marry with white people. I will say in addition, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I suppose, will forever forbid the two races living together upon terms of social and political equality, and inasmuch, as they cannot so live, that while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, that I as much as any other man am in favor of the superior position being assigned to the white man.” – Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, September 18th, 1858


Things progress copperhead, political parties change their ideals and values, some for the better, some not so much, but none-the-less things progress…


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Wow, you libby LGBTQ’s must be so frustrated with Milo. He’s not really on your side. MIlo dosent take crap from the Libs, repub’s or dem’s as you seen and heard. You’ll never see him parading around in a pink tutu whining & sniveling for this this or that making a idiotic spectacle of himself. He tells it like it is and lives his life while in your face and dont give 2 sheets about social snowflake justice. Just like TV or radio, ya dont like whats on, turn it off instead of a march protesting him and you getting all butt hurt and offended.


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I know, right? Not a tutu but…


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“It’s a very sensible college with a lot of sensible majors, you know, which seems to attract the left wing crazies.” oh? Sensible majors are “Crazy” You mean educated liberal minded adults make you afraid.


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No he didn’t say sensible majors are “Crazy”. He was commenting further on the sleepy little town actually “…seems to attract the left wing crazies”.


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Fake nooz!


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Do police get “hazzard/OT pay” when assigned by their chief to work the speaking events?


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About all they needed for this non event was coffee as far as I could tell. I wish I’d seen him speak. He’s a bit whacked out for my taste but, calls it as he see’s it and he’s typically right on.


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