Current Events > Milo forced to cancel Phoenix event after 62 venues deny booking.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/milo-yiannopolous-phoenix-free-speech-event-cancelled-no-venue

No fewer than 62 Phoenix venues have turned down the opportunity to host Milo Yiannopolous, the Internet provocateur known for his cozy ties to white nationalists, for a Free Speech Arizona event, the Phoenix New Times reported Thursday. His visit to the southwestern city has been canceled as a result.

A spokesperson for the United Liberty Coalition, a far-right group that purports to defend our Constitutionally protected liberty and had invited Yiannopolous to speak, told the New Times that venues were scared off by security risks or simply disagreed with his views.

We know that at least 20 of them pulled out or denied use because of fear of retaliation and violence, United Liberty Coalitions Shelby Busch wrote in an email to the publication. A few of them denied us because they researched Milo and decided they did not want to be involved because of what they have seen on the news.

The group subsequently issued a statement on its Facebook page lamenting that they had had to ask Yiannopolous to drop out because they were unable to guarantee the safety of someone of his stature. A quote from Yiannopolous included in the statement decries the ability of left-wing bullies to shut down conservative speakers and asks the U.S. government to uphold their duty to defend free speech.

Despite his protestations, the private venues that denied Yiannopolous a stage were simply exercising their right not to host him.

The Phoenix events cancellation is another entry in a parade of bad news for the self-described most fabulous supervillain on the internet. He blamed university censorship for the collapse of a September Free Speech Week he had planned to host on the University of California at Berkeleys campus, but it turned out that his student organizers failed to file necessary paperwork and that Yiannopolous himself neglected to even extend invitations to some of the individuals hed scheduled as speakers.

Then came a blockbuster Buzzfeed report detailing his extensive efforts to covertly insert white nationalist ideas into Breitbarts stories and the mainstream discourse by proxy.

Yiannopolous is still in the middle of his Troll Academy tour, and his schedule claims he will soon travel to Australia for a string of events held at secret locations.

Those who already bought tickets to the Phoenix stop, spending either $27.95 for a discounted pass or up to $125 for a VIP pass that included an autographed copy of Yiannopolous book Dangerous, will receive refunds, according to a statement on his personal Facebook page.

Pretty ironic that he's launching a tour on free speech just to be denied speaking at certain venues on the grounds of free speech. But I suppose he's getting exactly what he wants: he's deliberately provoking a negative reaction out of other people and now he's running into issues where he can't speak at venues cause the masses of people he's provoked are going to be there as well.
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Is this guy's whole thing just to stir the pot?
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Alt-right heifer gets what he deserves. Fair, next.
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Good.
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the free market at work
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I love that dude. He's hilarious. But I can understand he is not for everyone
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Rekt
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Thought this was about that rapper Milo who makes me cringe rapping about cartoons and toothpaste and shit
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lol.
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How, isn't Arizona like Conservative Disneyland?
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Between the pedophile remarks and the video of him tolerating the Nazi salute while he was on stage, I don't blame them. They'd better not pull crap like this with someone like Ben Shapiro though; it's always a shame when he gets lumped in with these alt right loons that turn a blind eye to the white supremacists in their midst.
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lol
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no amount of entertainment he provides can match up to the hilarity of him crashing as hard as he did.
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AsucaHayashi posted...

no amount of entertainment he provides can match up to the hilarity of him crashing as hard as he did.

All he had to do was not suggest that podophilic relationships are awesome for the little boys cause it teaches them to give good head, and he'd still be talking shit on conservative platforms all across the country. But no.
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chill02 posted...

the free market at work

There it is

I love how people on the right just assume that anyone who takes issues with these "free speech events" takes issue with free speech. Do you have to be a fascist to disagree with Antifa? Didn't think so.
Shadowplay posted...

Between the pedophile remarks and the video of him tolerating the Nazi salute while he was on stage, I don't blame them. They'd better not pull crap like this with someone like Ben Shapiro though; it's always a shame when he gets lumped in with these alt right loons that turn a blind eye to the white supremacists in their midst.

Isn't Ben the guy who said that Covfefe is Arabic for "I stand?" Whoever said that, my brother deadass believed him.
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