As you may know, Milo Yiannopoulos is an editor at Breitbart.com, former conservative media outlet, current Trump Pravda site. Milo is a well-known voice on the political right for a number of reasons, from his coverage of Gamer Gate to being a provocateur, and being the self-proclaimed “most fabulous supervillain on the internet."
While Milo has proven he can be a useful voice on the right wing, lately he has done more to hurt the image of the political right than to help it.
In case you’re not familiar with him, Milo has been a Trumpkin (i.e. an avid Trump supporter) since Trump broke onto the scene (he even refers to Trump as “daddy”). Milo is part of the right-wing group known as the alternative or “alt right.” One of the staples of the alt-right is a nasty brand of white supremacy and the idea that Western civilization is superior not because of its principles, but because of the ethnicity of those who founded it.
Milo has neither fully embraced nor fully endorsed the white supremacy aspect of the alt right. When asked accused of white supremacy, Milo usually says he can’t possibly be racist because he has a fetish for black men.
Regardless, Milo has flirted with the alt right far too much on this issue for me to confidently say that he holds no racial biases. This issue is particularly damaging to the political right because it reinforces the stereotype that right winged people are white supremacists. Although yes, the alt-right is on the political right, experts estimate that only five percent of right winged people hold white supremacist views.
Within the past year or so Milo has gotten himself into trouble in other ways that typically don’t bother most people on the right. His talks on college campuses around the country are usually disrupted by students, sometimes spilling over into near riots. Then there was his run-in with Leslie Jones on Twitter, for which Milo was banned from Twitter. Not to mention the anti-Semitism he spouted on Twitter in the direction of his former friend, Ben Shapiro.
What seriously troubles me, though, is the recent scandal with Milo involving his scholarship fund for boys. He started this fund to help young boys who he feels are being left behind in America's education system. People have donated roughly $100,000. Where is the money? Sitting in Milo’s bank account. He has put no money into his own charity.
It is because of this that I am at the end of my rope with Milo. I have no time for people who take advantage of those they claim to defend. It is hypocrisy of the highest order. Perhaps I should have seen this coming (many conservatives disassociated with Milo long ago). Unless he makes up for this, I cannot say I look to Milo as a productive voice on the political right.
