Breitbart tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos will not speak at the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference after the president of the group sponsoring the event gave him the boot for allegedly advocating pedophilia.
“Due to the revelation of an offensive video in the past 24 hours condoning pedophilia, the American Conservative Union has decided to rescind the invitation of Milo Yiannopolous to speak at the Conservative Political Action conference,” American Conservative Union president Matt Schlapp said in a statement on Twitter.
“We realize that Mr. Yiannopolous has responded on Facebook, but it is insufficient. It is up to him to answer the tough questions and we urge him to immediately further address these disturbing comments.”
On the video, Yiannopoulos said that sex between 13-year-olds and older men can be “life-affirming” in the gay community.
“I think in the gay world, some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life-affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys, they can even save those young boys, from desolation, from suicide … providing they’re consensual,” he said.
The conservative Reagan Battalion blog site tweeted videos Sunday in which Yiannopoulos discusses Jews, sexual consent, statutory rape, child abuse and homosexuality.
Yiannopoulos, 32, later did an about-face and posted a “note for idiots” on Facebook in which he said he did not support pedophilia — and whined that he was a victim.
“It is a vile and disgusting crime, perhaps the very worst,” the conservative provocateur wrote.
“There are selectively edited videos doing the rounds, as part of a coordinated effort to discredit me from establishment Republicans, that suggest I am soft on the subject.”
He blamed his own “sloppy phrasing” and “deceptive editing” for any suggestions that he supported pedophilia.
“I am completely disgusted by the abuse of children,” he wrote, pointing out that he has outed three pedophiles during his journalistic career.
The British author said he spoke of his own relationship when he was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.
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Here is the uncut 5 minute video of Milo Yiannopoulos advocating for Pederasty involving “13 Year old” and “older men.” HIS WORDS.@Mschlapp pic.twitter.com/mAgmfpuyvu
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 20, 2017
Yiannopoulos writes for Breitbart News, a platform for the so-called “alt-right” movement, an offshoot of conservatism that mixes racism, white nationalism and populism.
President Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, served as executive chairman of Breitbart until he resigned to join the fledgling administration.
“I am a gay Jew and he made me a star,” Yiannopoulos told a British TV interviewer in November, the Washington Post reported.
The firebrand delights in challenging political correctness and attacking radical Islam and feminism — and his campus speeches attract raucous protests by students and others on the left who try to shout him down or have him barred.
Police at the University of California at Berkeley canceled a talk by Yiannopoulos this month amid protests — prompting Trump to threaten to pull federal funds from the school.
“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents,” Yiannopoulos said in one of the videos posted by the Reagan Battalion.
“It sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me,” a man says.
“And you know what. I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him,” Yiannopoulos responds, referring to oral sex.
The alt-right numbwit defended relationships between teen boys and men, saying pedophilia is not a “sexual attraction to someone who is 13 years old,” the Washington Examiner reported.
“Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty,” he says. “That is not what we’re talking about.”
In another video, Yiannopoulos claims he was the predator when he was 14 years old and had a sexual encounter with a priest.
“I did joke about giving better head as a result of clerical sexual abuse committed against me when I was a teen,” he wrote in his Facebook defense.
“If I choose to deal in an edgy way on an internet livestream with a crime I was the victim of that’s my prerogative. It’s no different to gallows humor from AIDS sufferers,” he wrote.
CPAC announced over the weekend that Yiannopoulos would be speaking at the event.
“We initially extended the invitation knowing that the free speech issue on college campuses is a battlefield where we need brave, conservative standard-bearers,” Schlapp said in Monday’s statement.
But an ACU board member lashed out on Twitter about the decision to invite Yiannopoulos.
“While I’m all for free speech, there is such a thing as vile, hateful speech that does not deserve a platform,” Ned Ryun tweeted. “There’s nothing about this that’s amusing. This isn’t about free speech. This is about basic decency.”
Yiannopoulos would have shared the stage with Trump, Vice President Pence, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at the four-day conference, which kicks off Wednesday in Oxon Hill, Md.
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