{"id":94859,"date":"2016-05-05T07:25:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94859"},"modified":"2016-05-05T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T15:25:03","slug":"meet-milo-yiannopoulos-the-appealing-young-face-of-the-racist-alt-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94859","title":{"rendered":"Meet Milo Yiannopoulos, the Appealing Young Face of the Racist Alt-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/05\/meet-milo-yiannopoulos-the-appealing-young-face-of-the-racist-alt-right.html\">Jack Hunter writes<\/a>: Milo Yiannopoulos is a beast.<br \/>\nThe 32-year-old, boastfully gay Breitbart writer\u2014or \u201cdangerous faggot\u201d\u2014has quickly become a hero to young conservatives and libertarians for smacking down the ridiculous out-of-control \u201csocial justice warriors\u201d who troll college campuses.<br \/>\nIf Donald Trump defies political correctness, Yiannopoulos\u2014an avid Trump supporter prone to calling The Donald \u201cdaddy\u201d\u2014obliterates it.<br \/>\nA woman confronted Yiannopoulos during his speech in a packed American University auditorium last month, asking if his controversial rhetoric \u201cinvalidated\u201d minority views.<br \/>\n\u201cF*ck your feelings,\u201d he told her.<br \/>\nThe kids loved it. Me too.<br \/>\nHow could you not? As the student left becomes insufferably extreme, Milo\u2019s become the perfect counterpunch.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s irreverent. He\u2019s exciting.<br \/>\nTo an old guy like me\u2014a whole decade Milo\u2019s senior!\u2014he\u2019s punk rock.<br \/>\n\u201cAt 6\u20192, punctuated by a tall poof of bleached hair\u2026 his friends will tell you, he is always \u2018on,\u2019 whether he\u2019s railing against the matriarchy, bragging about his own fabulousness or discussing his love of \u2018black d*ck,\u201d wrote Fusion last year.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s a middle finger to the establishment, left and right.<br \/>\nSlamming #NeverTrump Republicans last week, Yiannopoulos scolded the GOP for offending young Trump supporters like himself, \u201cUnlike most right-wing writers, my biggest demographic is 18-34 year olds.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThose weren\u2019t just any old voters you were alienating,\u201d Milo said to anti-Trump Republicans. \u201cThey include the next generation of conservative firebrands, who are currently gravitating to Trump, the alt-right, and me.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe alt-right.\u201d<br \/>\nThere are worse things than political correctness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Hunter writes: Milo Yiannopoulos is a beast. The 32-year-old, boastfully gay Breitbart writer\u2014or \u201cdangerous faggot\u201d\u2014has quickly become a hero to young conservatives and libertarians for smacking down the ridiculous out-of-control \u201csocial justice warriors\u201d who troll college campuses. If Donald &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94860,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94859\/revisions\/94860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}