Milo is one of those public figures who is widely known by and referred to by his first name. He came into widespread prominence with his "Dangerous Faggot" college speaking tour. (Did I forget to mention that he's a flamboyant gay?) He did more to undermine the Progressive's monopoly on campus in one year than all the conservative efforts of the last thirty years. Milo's talks were informative and entertaining. He is great on his feet in extemporaneous debate with audience members. As Milo argues, fighting a culture war with professional liars and hypocrites can't be done with Marquis of Queensbury rules.
As Milo explains:
Despite the hellraising, my campus tour was about more than just causing a ruckus. There was a method to my madness. For too long, the American campus has been the preserve of leftists, who channel funding into crackpot gender studies courses and radicalize students against political tolerance, openness to opposing ideas, and ultimately against reason itself. For too long, they've gone unchallenged. (pg. 231)
Milo began his career as a technology reporter. He gained prominence with his articles on "Gamergate." His chapter on Gamergate is a clear analysis of what it is and why it's important. Briefly, tech reporters reviewing video games were in bed (sometimes literally) with game producers. When this typical case of media corruption hit the internet, the "journalists" attacked their audience as "racist" and all the rest of the usual smear terms. In this case, the idiotic left just red-pilled legions of formally apolitical video game fans.
The real reason GamerGate became a gigantic story was due to the reactions of these media outlets when they were exposed as ethically compromised ... In the space of 48 hours, a dozen articles were published in a similar vein. All repeating the same opinion: gamers are bigoted white males trying to make the world of video games less inclusive ... GamerGate was hugely significant. It was the first time consumers of a major entertainment medium staged a mass resistance to the influence of the political left. Gamers showed frightened, isolated dissidents that it was possible to fight the cultural left, and win. (pp. 194, 209)
Dangerous is organized into chapters that mostly deal with various aspects of cultural Marxism and why Milo has become the favorite object of the Left's Two-Minute Hates: Why the Progressive Left Hates Me; Why the Alt-Right Hates Me; Why Twitter Hates Me; Why Feminists Hate Me; Why Establishment Republicans Hate Me. The chapter on the "Alt-Right" is most illustrative on how the media smear machine works. Milo examines how and why the media came to portray him as a leader of the Alt-Right. He argues that it's the result of him writing one of the few objective accounts on it. He notes the irony of a flamboyant gay man of Jewish descent being characterized as a leader of neo-Nazis.
The opening chapter, "Why the Progressive Left Hates Me," provides a lucid explication on how and why American culture and public discourse has degenerated to its present state. He explains the origin's of Cultural Marxism and why its defeat is imperative if America's ever going to be great and free again:
The New Left, as they came to be called, were responsible for the early stages of the Left's pivot away from traditional class politics and towards the divisive, politically-correct world of gender, racial and sexual politics we know today. They were the ones responsible for making issues like abortion, the reversal of gender roles, "racial justice," pacifism, and multiculturalism into major platforms of the Left. If they could keep their "rainbow coalition" acting and voting as a bloc, and focus all their hatred on the weary white male working class, then political dominance would soon be assured. Thus began the reign of identity politics. (pg. 25)
Needless to say, Milo's "colorful" persona and penchant for four-letter words is not for everyone. His attention getting method has been effective with college students, his main target market. But, the grumpy old men who control Conservative Inc. and Obleftivism just get the vapors when encountering Milo. On the other hand, Milo was effective. That's why the media smear machine sought to destroy him.
I recommend that you buy and read this book. Look beyond Milo's outrageous antics and carefully analyze his effective use of rhetoric. Watching some of his videos is also most instructive on this score. There's two important lessons here: First, if you're boring, nobody not already in agreement will listen to you. So, the most brilliant, but plodding, analysis is a waste of time. Second, understand the difference between neutrals and sworn enemies in war. Neutrals in the culture war can be reasoned with and brought around with some creative red-pilling. Leftists are not open to reason. They need to be ridiculed off the public stage. They have nothing to offer but their own anger and emotional dysfunction. Milo ably demonstrates this principle.
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