Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
I'm surprised anyone can take the guy seriously tbh.
Since he readily admits to the trolling and humor elements of his opinion pieces he writes, your assessment would be accurate. He's a trolling provocateur and he's there to entertain. He does it very well and he's made millions being that persona.
I did not know much about his statements about his teenage relationship and older men when the controversy leaked. I did not know he was uninvited from CPAC because of it. So I looked it up and included both his and the CPAC's arguments:
After the release of the video prompted outrage among conservatives on Twitter, Yiannopoulos used a Facebook post to deny supporting paedophilia and claimed the video had been “selectively edited”.“I did say that there are relationships between younger men and older men that can help a young gay man escape from a lack of support or understanding at home. That’s perfectly true and every gay man knows it. But I was not talking about anything illegal and I was not referring to prepubescent boys.
“I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16.”
Yiannopoulos also wrote that “no subject should be off limits for discussion and particularly for humour”
But Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, which bills itself as the US’s “premier conservative voice”, said that Yiannopoulos’s Facebook statement was “insufficient”.
“It is up to him to answer the tough questions and we urge him to immediately further address these disturbing comments,” Schlapp said in a statement.
“We continue to believe that CPAC is a constructive forum for controversies and disagreements among conservatives, however there is no disagreement among our attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children.”
In a separate post, Yiannopoulos wrote: “There’s a video going around that purports to show me saying antisemitic things (nope) and advocating for pedophilia (big nope). The shocking thing? It’s Republicans doing it. Sad to see establishment types collapse into the same tactics as social justice warriors.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/20/milo-yiannopoulos-denies-supporting-paedophilia-cpac-online-video
More on the topic you wish to only talk about instead of his actual political positions, I've heard similar from gay men (in the real world) that older gay men helped them come out of the closet, explore their sexuality, and escape cycles of oppression and abuse from their conservative families.
I am definitely interested in talking about the politics, though. Would you like to actually talk about some? 🙂