Last week's pedophilia accusations against Milo -- initiated on Twitter by a group called The Reagan Battalion -- are based on partial remarks that he made on two separate podcasts in 2015 and 2016.
Mainstream media quickly picked up the story with headlines such as the USA Today: CPAC boots Milo Yiannopoulos over pedophilia comments" and The Independent: Milo Yiannopoulos: Video of right-wing journalist 'defending paedophilia' surfaces online.
But if you watch both interviews in their entirety, Milo's remarks are nearly the opposite of what he's being accused of.
In a September 2015 interview on the Joe Rogan Experience -- which was done about 10 days after Milo's article about the left protecting pedophiles -- Milo said that as a teenager he was sexually molested by a Catholic priest. Milo then joked about it saying that he liked it. He makes a number of statements, that when edited or taken out of context, have been used to make Milo look bad, but there is nothing in the interview where he condones pedophilia, or non-consensual sex.
And in a January 2016 appearance on the Drunken Peasants podcast Milo made comments that I disagree with and others that could be considered to be provocative, but it is clear that non-consensual sex and pedophilia are not acceptable to him.
Regarding the white supremacist claims against Milo, the charges are dubious given Milo said this in January:
"White pride, white nationalism, white supremacy isn't the way to go... The way to go is reminding them and yourselves that you should be aspiring to values and to ideas... You should be focusing on what unites people and not what drives them apart... You shouldn't give a sh*t about skin color, a sh*t about sexuality... You shouldn't give a sh*t about gender, and you should be deeply suspicious of the people who do."
Although I do not know Milo's real views, and I have not read or listened to everything he has said, his views on white supremacy above are pretty clear, and I haven't seen any evidence that he is a white supremacist -- just accusations.
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