Milo Yiannopoulos: My call for shooting journalists was just a 'troll'
Source: The HILL
Link to tweet
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Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday insisted that he "wasn't being serious" when he recently told two reporters that he "can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists."
Yiannopoulos's comments Thursday came shortly after a gunman opened fire in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Md., leaving at least five people dead and several others seriously injured. Authorities have taken a suspect into custody, but have not yet released an identity or motive.
"You're about to see a raft of news stories claiming that I am responsible for inspiring the deaths of journalists," Yiannopoulos wrote in a Facebook post. "The truth, as always, is the opposite of what the media tells you."
"I sent a troll about 'vigilante death squads' as a *private* response to a few hostile journalists who were asking me for comment, basically as a way of saying, 'F---k off.' They then published it," he continued. "Amazed they were pretending to take my joke as a 'threat,' I reposted these stories on Instagram to mock them - and to make it clear that I wasn't being serious."
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sakabatou
(42,207 posts)Justify it however you want. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
As I said earlier on another forum, if any student in a public school in NJ made those statements, he or she would immediately be suspended from school for 15 days and would not be permitted to return without a psychiatric evaluation and that doctors signed release that the student did not intend those words to be a threat. Even 5 year olds. Zero tolerance policy.
We live in a different society now. If a five year old can be held to this standard, surely an adult media personality should be able to handle it. He did not. He needs to be suspended from the USA until he undergoes a psychological evaluation. Words matter. Actions can kill. In this case, both.
I hope this haunts him, but sincerely doubt it.
cstanleytech
(26,368 posts)been attacking the news media with the whole "fake news" bullshit.
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)murielm99
(30,790 posts)you little shit. So did the orange monstrosity.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)dweller
(23,712 posts)imagine that ...
whadda cuck
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)I can hardly wait until someone on our side gets a gun of their own and uses it to blow your brains out. I've got a bottle or Cristal chilling in the refrigerator, just waiting until I can use it to drink a toast to the hero who pulls the trigger that sends you straight to hell.
Just joking, dude -- obviously, I never meant that seriously! (For one thing, I could never afford Cristal...)
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)gopiscrap
(23,768 posts)meadowlander
(4,413 posts)Maybe take that into consideration the next time you feel compelled to grace us with your opinions.
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)Depends on the facts, but . . . . I was just reading about this today.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Wouldn't that be some chit?
Just sayin....
Midnight Writer
(21,885 posts)Maraya1969
(22,527 posts)time I posted it"
blue-wave
(4,380 posts)sack of animal dung. You own this as well as all of your sick and twisted fascist friends. Remember one thing you twisted F*#k, never once has it ever ended well for fascists throughout all of history.
Some of us might be despairing at the moment due to recent events, but it is always darkest before the dawn. I believe the first glimmer of light out on the horizon is closer than most think.
SergeStorms
(19,208 posts)safeinOhio
(32,763 posts)I don't think the court will buy that excuse.
ProfessorGAC
(65,466 posts)...another f'n liar!
He says people should be killed, then it happens, and he says "just kidding"?
Fuck that brain dead, jerk!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)IronLionZion
(45,680 posts)arrest him for white terrorism, making terroristic threats, and inciting violence against Americans.
Then send him back where he came from (UK), or maybe send him to Russia. He doesn't belong in our country.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)tool of trump. Might as well have killed those five people, all respected in their field, himself. Words kill, literally milo. Can inciting to murder be a charge?
bucolic_frolic
(43,567 posts)RayStar
(417 posts)In this climate of guns and shootings his words might have a negative affect on some irate people. This shooting is awfuil!
Bengus81
(6,941 posts)This is why we had more MURDERS yesterday. Terrorism plain and simple and ginned up by Trump.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)No joke.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)Nobody's buying your pearl-encrusted bullshit, Milo.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)hibbing
(10,117 posts)Snellius
(6,881 posts)"Fox News spent some time on air Thursday afternoon dissecting the Capitals political bent to see if any of its news articles or editorials might have incited such an incident, only to eventually conclude that it was a solid, local newspaper. Twitter filled up with references to President Donald Trumps criticism of the media as an enemy of the state and right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopolous recent remark about vigilantes gunning down journalists (which he clarified after the Annapolis shooting wasnt serious). Fox News host Sean Hannity disgustingly (and nonsensically) blamed the killings on California Rep. Maxine Waters. A man called The Sun newsroom from South Carolina to ask whether the Capital was a left liberal or Fox News-type paper, and he hung up in frustration at the answer that it is neither."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0629-capital-gazette-shooting-20180628-story.html
azureblue
(2,158 posts)If some nut case homophobe started ranting about shooting and hanging gays? And a gay person got killed, so the ranter said "just kidding?" Hits kind of close to home, doesn't it, when the shoe is on the other foot?
marble falls
(57,647 posts)today
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Fuck you Milo. I hope karma fucks you hard.
Gore1FL
(21,185 posts)DBoon
(22,432 posts)would he accept the excuse that they were just joking and it was a troll?
No Milo, you made a direct death threat. You called for the commission of murder. You need to be prosecuted.
You will someday experience the "joke" of a a prison sentence.