Comments on: The Chicago Review Of Books Attempts To Boycott Milo Yiannopoulos – Bolsters His Rhetoric Instead https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/ Home of Stephen Knight and The #GSPodcast Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.2 By: George Millo https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7384 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:36:38 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7384 I’m no fan of Milo, but where’s the evidence that he’s a “white nationalist”?

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By: Phillysmart https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7363 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:19:19 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7363 Don’t you think its ironic that people, who’s job is to review books, want to censor a publisher

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By: Heydon https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7362 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:08:33 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7362 I’m sure that any compellingly unfavorable review of this book will be met with intellectual concession and introspection on the part of Milo’s fans, rather than a doxing and a barrage of death threats.

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By: Lukas https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7361 Sat, 31 Dec 2016 10:09:32 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7361 What? Of course he has distanced himself from such people, he said he isn’t Alt-Right so many times now, what else should he do? He can’t say more than that he isn’t a member of the Alt-Right, or any Racist organization, and that he is not Racist.

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By: Labels, No Arguments and Banning – With Emma Kennedy | Godless Spellchecker's Blog https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7353 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 22:39:31 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7353 […] today I wrote about the outrage inspired by Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal. And in a twist that will surprise […]

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By: Gary https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7351 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:26:53 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7351 To answer your other tweet: No, there’s no evidence he’s a white supremacist. He’s just failed to distance himself from them so people take that as a green light to assume they agree. He’s just an opportunist who’ll use any group who happen to agree with him on any issue in order to get to the top.

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By: Barr https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7350 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 16:55:38 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7350 It’s like that time the Hugo’s tried to burn their club to the ground instead of acknowledge conservative voices in sci-fi.

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By: NIkhil https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7349 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 14:14:54 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7349 On the political side, Milo primarily talks about feminism, Islam, free speech and gay rights. He is not wrong. He is correct on all four counts.

He represents a new right-wing politics that is not steeped in religiosity, war-hawkish rhetoric (peddled by Frum, McCain, Graham, Kristol, etc.). Atheists like you especially should be pleased at Milo and similar voices separating the Republican Party from religion.

And if lefties think the right is too tough on Islam (I disagree), they merely have to take up the issue of Islam and immigration themselves to undercut Milo. But even when the American or British left address Islam, they just want to talk of its ideas with fellow elite secularists, not actually address Muslims (esp. the high birth rate), mass immigration and good solutions. If you want an Islamic reform, let’s prove it can work in the Islamic world first before bringing them all to the West. Europeans do not have an upper hand, only a rapidly declining, aging, low-fertility population.

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By: butthurtmonkey (@butthurtmonkey) https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7348 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 12:11:44 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7348 Milo is right on everything

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By: mrscounter https://www.gspellchecker.com/2016/12/the-chicago-review-of-books-attempts-a-stand-against-milo-yiannopoulos-and-bolsters-his-rhetoric-instead/#comment-7347 Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:57:54 +0000 https://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=4733#comment-7347 Excellent piece, Stephen, thank you. I will be sharing widely.

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