Please note I knew MY = Milo Yiannopoulos. I'm not stupid.

Hi NathanJ,

Now I think I'm even more confused.
I cant see any reason at all to argue that Milo Yiannopoulos didn't prove himself to be 'far more articulated and intelligent than than the way in which he's portrayed' during that Andrew Boly interview.
I think Milo proved it without any doubt.

Regards the Media Watch video you linked, I don't like that style of reporting either where people invite others on just to run them down or attack them.
If you're going to invite them on, let them speak, lets hear what they have to say.
I do not approve of what those people did going into the Anglican Church dressed as Muslims.
Personally I've always thought that those kinds of 'chaser' stunts were in bad taste.

The left would've loved to have Milo on their shows, for no other reason to attack him and run him down but they realise he is too intelligent and quick witted and would only make them all look foolish.
They would do themselves and their biased agendas a disservice giving him airtime.

I think it's incorrect to say Milo is all style and no substance, I think he's got plenty of both.
Also the left would not be violently attempting to silence him if he didn't have any substance.

The imported culture of 'Progressive' left violence is no joke.

If Milo is a joke.Then the two world wars were a joke.
The Victoria Police are considering in the best traditions of Hitlers S.S. and the Soviet State Police under Stalin to charge the venue that
staged the Milo Melbourne show.
Just as the S.S charged Jews to go on trains to the death camps and Stalin charged Christians for making a mess in Soviet cities after Churches were touched by Soviet Police.
So the Andrews State Police are considering charging the venue for Police UNDERprotection from feral socialists.
No Milo is no joke and neither is the Soviet State Police under Comrade Andrews.

Liberal Senator Jane Hume made an interesting
observation about the Milo Y. hullabalo, including
his visit and speech in Parliament. She said
it is best to simply "turn the volume down" on
attention seekers.

"You know, young man swaggers into Canberra,
attention-seeking, saying outrageous things, and
appeasing the far-right, and getting some media
coverage".

"Sounds like the Coalition party room".

A familiar drum beat in the 45th Parliament. A lot
of ruckus, and not a lot of consequence.

The thing about Milo isn't that he is a new and radical thinker of the right but that he offers sign-posts for those thinkers of the right.

It may be that he is homophobic and transphobic and a host of other phobias but that is only in terms of the current meanings of usages of those terms ie 'homophobic' is a term used to describe someone who says something about the homosexual community that that community doesn't want said. It is used to shame the speaker into silence and into seeking redemption.

Milo most defintely says things the homosexual community would prefer remain unsaid but he refuses to be silenced. This is what infuriates the left. The rules that have applied for so long are now being ignored by the likes of Milo, Trump, Drudge, Shapiro, the Breitbart journalists and others. Pauline was an early, though less articulate, example of this. When social shaming doesn't work to silence these people, the left naturally turns to violence and, sometimes, the courts.

Milo's place in all this is to distil and package new conservative/libertarian thought to make it accessible. By mocking the taboos of the left and saying the heretofore unsayable, he allows others to say it also. When something becomes unsayable, it eventually becomes unthinkable. Saying it makes it thinkable.

That's Milo Y's role. Its a role he is perfect for and which he does very well. That's why those who claim to oppose hatred, hate him. Its why those who claim to abhor violence, perpetrate or support violence against him. Its why those who say they oppose intolerance are intolerant of him.

But don't seek out Milo to see new insights on conservative/libertarian thought. For that we have Shapiro.