Real-life fascist regimes mercilessly persecuted homosexuals, and any empirical connection between homosexuality and fascism is tenuous, despite what Christian conspiracy theorists and gay contrarians might have you believe. The subject of the gay fascist is, unsurprisingly, a sensitive one. Yet he has also revived an older trope, which may be more indicative of our current moment: the decadent, gay, fascist sophisticate. With his legions of online followers and savant’s knowledge of Pepe the Frog memes, Milo seems like a singularly contemporary thinker. Not the sort of dignified bourgeois gay that the Republican Party has spent years begrudgingly accommodating itself to no - Milo is a self-described “based faggot” who flirts with racism even as he tweets about his love of “black cock” he’s the millenial gay best friend who says the most outrageous things: for instance, that gay liberation was a bad idea and it’s time to get back in the closet.
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He calls Donald Trump “Daddy.” He openly affiliates with the neo-monarchists and open racists of the alt-right, which he depicts as a happy-go-lucky band of internet tricksters out to poke fun at liberal pieties for the lulz. Milo is also a number of things that most conservative journalists are not. Its thrust may be abhorrent, but as a headline it’s brilliant - and it plays well on social media. NOW OVER 100 PEOPLE ARE KILLED OR MAIMED IN ORLANDO. A sample headline from directly after the Orlando shooting gives an idea of the genre: THE LEFT CHOSE ISLAM OVER GAYS. He established himself as a right-wing celebrity by mastering the arts of calculated provocation and self-promotion, developing a particular talent for loudly violating “politically correct” speech taboos in ways maximally calculated to rally the faithful while baiting his liberal and leftist adversaries into hysterics. Milo may have been one of the most “ egregious and consistent offenders of terms of service,” but he was also one of the social-media platform’s most skilled manipulators. That’s the official explanation, at least, although it may give Twitter too much credit for having and enforcing a coherent policy.
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Although the offending tweets were not unusual by the low standards of Twitter (or of Milo himself), this was not the first time that he had gotten in trouble with the company, and by picking a fight with Jones he made her a target of even worse racist abuse from his followers. On Tuesday, Twitter permanently banned the account of Breitbart journalist Milo Yiannopoulos for violating its “hateful conduct policy.” Milo - he goes by just the single name - was busted for trolling Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.