This lengthy article is mostly just one long victory dance over the apparent fact that Milo Yiannopoulos is deeply in debt. But along the way, Luke Darby of GQ (which is supposed to be a fashion magazine, as far as I know, but today the Leftist agitprop is everywhere, with no letup) makes some revealing statements about the Left’s mindset and agenda.
“He also owes money to a rogue’s gallery of other right-wingers, including the anti-Muslim zealot Pamela Geller.”
Why is Pamela Geller an “anti-Muslim zealot”? Because she opposes jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others. Luke Darby, if pressed, which he never will be, would probably admit that he also opposes jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others, but he would claim that Pamela Geller “hates” Muslims and he doesn’t, or tars “all Muslims” as jihad terrorists and/or Sharia supremacists, and he doesn’t. She doesn’t do those things, however, and it is reflexive now among Leftist “journalists” to smear as “anti-Muslim” any and all opposition to jihad and Sharia, and to try to discredit and marginalize it as “racism,” “bigotry,” and “Islamophobia.” If the jihadists and the influence of Sharia continue to advance in the West, Darby may someday regret that he jumped on this particular bandwagon without a moment’s thought, but by then it will be far too late.
“Liberals who buy into Yiannopoulos’s bad-faith arguments for free speech, that the only way to defeat his punchy bigotry is to validate it with debate, should take note: When Yiannopoulos made his pedophilia-friendly comments, his conservative patrons and audiences didn’t invite him to a public forum to weigh the pros and cons of what he said.”
It is Darby who is in bad faith here. There was nothing for Milo’s “conservative patrons and audiences” to debate, because Milo immediately apologized and backtracked. It wasn’t as if he was out there calling for debate on the pros and cons of pedophilia.
Note also Darby’s phrase, “Yiannopoulos’s bad faith arguments for free speech.” Darby is referring to Milo’s calls to Leftists to debate him, not about pedophilia, but about political issues. Darby, however, simply labels Milo’s views “punchy bigotry” and wants him silenced. This is increasingly how the Left deals with dissent. Leftists, like Muslim spokesmen, appear to know that they can’t win debates, so they simply want those whom they hate to be shut down. Darby doesn’t contemplate the possibility that once he and his allies have opened this door, their own views could be shut down if they fall out of favor with the elites; apparently he doesn’t think that could ever happen.
“Media personalities like Jones and Yiannopoulos don’t just rely on attention to ideologically thrive. They also need it just to financially survive. Taking their megaphones remains the best way to mitigate the damage they’ve already done.”
Darby here openly endorses the deplatforming and silencing of those whom he hates. He appears to have full trust in the social media giants that they will wield this power in a way of which he will approve. Once again, it doesn’t seem to occur to him that if Milo and Alex Jones can be deplatformed, so can Luke Darby. He is a totalitarian, and totalitarians don’t contemplate being out of power, for power is their god, and they will do anything to attain it and keep it.
“Milo Yiannopoulos Is Millions of Dollars in Debt,” by Luke Darby, GQ, December 3, 2018 (thanks to Vikram):
…Now Yiannopoulos is reportedly $2 million in debt….He also owes money to a rogue’s gallery of other right-wingers, including the anti-Muslim zealot Pamela Geller….
Liberals who buy into Yiannopoulos’s bad-faith arguments for free speech, that the only way to defeat his punchy bigotry is to validate it with debate, should take note: When Yiannopoulos made his pedophilia-friendly comments, his conservative patrons and audiences didn’t invite him to a public forum to weigh the pros and cons of what he said. They dropped him without hesitation. With no platform, he was no longer a provocative, popular figure with even a slight bit of influence. It’s the same hole that Alex Jones is falling into now that Infowars is off of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. All that Jones can do to get attention these days is literally yell at Marco Rubio in public.
Media personalities like Jones and Yiannopoulos don’t just rely on attention to ideologically thrive. They also need it just to financially survive. Taking their megaphones remains the best way to mitigate the damage they’ve already done.
gerald zavage says
I don’t think Ms. Geller is an “anti-Muslim zealot”. I think she is anti-Islam. So is French President Macron and Jordan’s King Abul (Implored Islam to update the Koran to remove violent verses and King Abul who forbade Imams in Jordan from teaching the Jihadist verses). They are anti-Islam to the degree that Jihadist verses and other hate speech in the Koran, Sira, Hadiths, and Sharia Law are followed literally by some adherents of Islam. I think there must be a distinction “between “Muslim” and “Islam” (Ref. Ms. Sarah Haider of EXMNA.com). A Muslim is a human being and rejecting them or mistreating them would be bigotry. Islam, by comparison, is an idea. All ideas are subject to analysis and assessment and ideas must be debated (and modified or rejected if analysis/debate so indicates).
Andy says
What is Really Happening in France?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJxVCsWzRx8
mortimer says
The Left is RUNNING AWAY FROM DEBATE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT WIN … they know it … we know it … WE MUST CONTINUALLY SAY SO …
The Left is RUNNING AWAY FROM DEBATE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT WIN.
gravenimage says
True. Mortimer.
Logic&Reason says
The irony is that these leftists claim to be the intellectuals in our world.
That’s another con job they’re trying to perpetrate.
“We’re the intellectuals, and those who criticize Islam are knuckle-dragging oppressors who don’t deserve debate–only ridicule and silencing.”
They’re unwittingly participating in Sharia’s totalitarian tenets–falling for taqiyya.
Meanwhile, all other religions and ideologies are just fine to mock.
If Muhammad hadn’t used violent means of control, Islam would’ve died out long ago.
Intellectuals, my scabby knuckles!
J D S says
So true! The question here is Whvy ????but there is an answer. The left has been “left out” and no longer have an approval rating befitting real Americans so they are now just “users” and “takers” and are not “givers” So shameful.
Elisha says
“Taking their megaphones remains the best way to mitigate the damage they’ve already done.”
Little wonder they are in league with muslims, who also call for dissenters to be silenced. Secular humanists cannot defend their ideology because it is based on logical fallacy. Psalm 145:18.
mortimer says
Elisha, the LEFTIST FALLACY of today is that REPETITION OF SLOGANS is a replacement for CRITICAL THOUGHT.
The Muslims use repetition in the SAME WAY. That and the punitive CENSORSHIP of REASON and FACTS.
Janet says
Mortimer did you happen to hear that obnoxious female Senator from Hawaii today? She said that Democrats are so smart that we, aka the average American, cannot understand that they know what’s best. ? Talk about the elites patting themselves on the back again. Thing is that President Trump and the stupid average American deplorables outsmarted them all when we took back the White House in 2016 and they still don’t get it! ?
gravenimage says
GQ’s Luke Darby reveals Left’s totalitarian agenda, calls for “taking megaphones” from dissenters from Leftist line
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Just shameful. No one is trying to shut down Leftist’s freedom of speech.
eduardo odraude says
No surprise that GQ would be on the left. After all, a large part of leftism today is just avoiding being unfashionable, avoiding being unhip and uncool. A great deal of leftism or apparent leftism is just cowardly conformism to what self-appointed progressives want to impose by any means necessary on those with whom they disagree. There chief weapon is to accuse people, at the drop of a hat, of racism. In terror of that, many just tow the line. How is that different from McCarthyism labeling as communists all kinds of people who had nothing to do with communism?
eduardo odraude says
Yes, “their,” not “there”.
FYI says
Meanwhile the virtue-signalling Leftards are banning christmas music..
“baby its cold outside” Cleveland radio bans it..
What next from the Leftards to be banned?Christmas trees?Christmas songs?
It should be easy to make it up…with the sort of dedication that only the Far Leftard Bolsheviks excel in.
“I’m dreaming of a White Christmas”{obviously racist-far right bias}
“Ding Dong merrily on high”{offensive to the DingDong people of DingDongland who worship the gods Ding and Dong}
“Oh Little town of Bethlehem” {islamophobic..insensitive to muslims ..as they stole the town}
“Oh come all you faithful”{at odds with diversity,offensive to all non-Christians}
“Deck the halls”{violent connotations?}
“Once in Royal David’s City”{highly offensive to muslims…}
“Joy to the World”{racist…?Not sufficiently culturally enriching enough..}
James Pierce says
GQ (which is supposed to be a fashion magazine, as far as I know)…
Right. It’s a fashion magazine the same way that ESPN is supposed to be a sports channel and Hollywood is supposed to be a place where movies are made. This disease is everywhere now.
Indiana Tom says
Holly weird is now a Marxist Infomercial producer.
b.a. freeman says
… they … need it just to financially survive …
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so, this a**hole thinks it’s OK to force milo to live under a bridge. even creeps like david dukes need to earn a living, unless darby thinks that he should just be killed.
oh, wait a second; i forgot that darby is a leftist. of *COURSE* he just wants yiannopoulos to be killed! what was i thinking? to the left, “free speech” means that U get to say whatever U want that lines up with Party objectives; it goes without saying (because they’re f***ing liars and *WON’T* say it publicly) that those who say anything that opposes the Party line must *NEVER* be heard. and of course, once the people’s republic is instantiated, they *will* never be heard again, because they *WILL* be killed.
sieg heil, darby!
Colin Broughton says
Leftist no – platforming as a strategy can be traced back at least as far as the Cultural Marxist Frankfurt School’s book, ‘A Critique of Pure Tolerance’, published in the 1960’s.
This handbook of leftist oppression includes a slimy essay by Herbert Marcuse entitled. ‘Repressive Tolerance’ in which he argues that black is white. He argue that The tolerance of free speech then enjoyed was in fact oppressive he says. Views which ran counter to those of the Frankfurt School should be shut down.
This book and this essay set out to justify left-fascism.
Indiana Tom says
I view the media with the same admiration and awe that I viewed Pravda, Tass, and Red Star during the Soviet regime.
lisalles says
Sad to read about Milo. He was hilarious. I told my daughter i thought he was funny and she was so angry at me that people around us started to stare….she despises him. I really enjoyed his you tube videos…I did not take his early sexual escapades to heart. I understand that these things happen…it is human nature. I felt a little sorry for milo….i imagined a little boy who was alone with his sexuality, out of place..not fitting in and a priest or some other respectable adult made him feel normal…wanted, approved of. whatever. My instincts were not that he was disgusting. Nor was i outraged. I felt sorry and sad for him. That as a child he was gay and felt abnormal. Isolated. I thought of all the other children who may be gay and who feel alone…their families unhappy with them….and can see how easy it would be for these children to fall into the hands of an adult pedophile who makes them feel desired, whole and a part of a family. Sad. Milo is a star. He should have his platform. And the different people who have been banned, removed, deleted should get together and sue these medias for censorship, bias and blocking their freedom of speech.