Milo Yiannopoulos: My call for shooting journalists was just a 'troll'

[laserhaas]

Source: The HILL

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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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OOPS

[sakabatou]

1. You've got blood on your hands

[Tucker08087]

4. Yup.

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 doctor’s 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]

8. As do alot of people including Donald Trump, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and everyone else that has

been attacking the news media with the whole "fake news" bullshit.

[Heartstrings]

2. I call bs..... nt

[murielm99]

3. You did inspire it,

you little shit. So did the orange monstrosity.

[world wide wally]

5. Be civil, asshole

[DRoseDARs]

6. "a *private* response" ... on public social media. Sorry, no, that dog won't hunt. nt

[dweller]

7. and your trolls responded

imagine that ...


whadda cuck

[regnaD kciN]

9. Cool troll, Milo! Here's one of mine in return...

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]

27. Yeah we get it Milo - you're part of the problem!

[gopiscrap]

10. that fucker needs to be arrested for incitement

[meadowlander]

11. And trolling has real world consequences.

Maybe take that into consideration the next time you feel compelled to grace us with your opinions.

[Sophia4]

12. It could possibly be left up to a jury to decide whether his speech was protected or not.

Depends on the facts, but . . . . I was just reading about this today.

[laserhaas]

35. Imagine that, a real trial, on actual gaslighting

Wouldn't that be some chit?

Just sayin....

[Midnight Writer]

13. Good one, Milo! You really got the goat of those dead reporters! Can't wait to see your next prank.

[Maraya1969]

14. "I didn't mean it the first time I posted it and I didn't mean it the second time

time I posted it"

[blue-wave]

15. Oh my dear Milo: No you sick

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]

16. Fuck off and die, Milo.

Just kidding! I can't believe anyone would ever take that seriously.

[safeinOhio]

17. Just joking when he yelled FIRE in the crowded theater.

I don't think the court will buy that excuse.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Another F'n Lie, From...

...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]

19. Con SOP: Advocate something horrid and when caught say "just joking". It doesn't wash. . . . nt

[IronLionZion]

20. Deport that immigrant

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]

21. culpable fool

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]

22. They like the dominance and fear but not when they get caught

[RayStar]

23. NO NO NO

In this climate of guns and shootings his words might have a negative affect on some irate people. This shooting is awfuil!

[Bengus81]

24. Trump lovers do this EVERY time. I wasn't being serious,just kidding,just for a laugh...........

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1248837/Donald-Trump-hitting-protesters-pay-legal-fees.html

This is why we had more MURDERS yesterday. Terrorism plain and simple and ginned up by Trump.

[Snellius]

25. Marching orders of Pres. who calls media "enemy of the state"

No joke.

[lapislzi]

26. Stochastic terrorism is still terrorism.

Nobody's buying your pearl-encrusted bullshit, Milo.

[Sunlei]

28. The RW-nazis have a huge uptick in posting extremely divisive things online & calls for violence.

actively driving both sides to the extreme by posting extremely divisive things online. There has been a HUGE uptick of comments calling for violence against the right as responses. Many of the accounts that re-tweet and repost this new talking point and push these news stories- the accounts are usually new users

[hibbing]

29. Nice try n/t

[Snellius]

30. FOX so disappointed shooter not a Trump hater

"Fox News spent some time on air Thursday afternoon dissecting the Capital’s 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 Trump’s 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 wasn’t “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]

31. and how would you feel, Milo

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]

32. Oh he was serious, alright, that's why he's walking back and doing damage control ...

today

[vercetti2021]

33. Again

Fuck you Milo. I hope karma fucks you hard.

[Gore1FL]

34. Orcs shouldn't troll. nt

[DBoon]

36. If someone calls for shooting Milo in the back

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.

[laserhaas]

37. Spot On!