9 September 2018 - Milo - Milo or Milo? To some, it's the name of a province in Boshka. To others, a name linked to controversy. Milo Senator Philip Francolin says, "A lot of my constitutes have expressed concerns over the name of the province and they don't want to be tied to someone who is very controversial."
The name Milo is a boy's name of German origin meaning "soldier or merciful". But the name citizens are worried about is Milo. Milo Yiannopoulos.
Milo Yiannopoulos, 33 of the UK is a is a British polemicist, political commentator, public speaker and writer. Yiannopoulos is a former senior editor for Breitbart News, who describes himself as a "cultural libertarian". He is a critic of Islam, atheism, feminism, social justice, political correctness, and other movements. Milo is more known for his controversies.
Although, Milo is openly gay, he said, "gay rights have made us dumber." He also went on later and said gays should, "get back in the closet." He has described being gay as "aberrant" and a "lifestyle choice guaranteed to bring [gay people] pain and unhappiness."
In January 2018, Yiannopoulos reported a fictitious news story, written by a spoof news-site, as being true. The article claimed that an English High Court had ruled that the National Health Service was legally obliged to offer cervical smear tests to men. Unaware that the story of was made up, Yiannopoulos argued that the story exemplified the thinking of those living in 'feminist clown world'. Before reading out the article verbatim, Yiannopoulos insisted that he had researched the story and promised that 'this is real, I haven't just made this up'.
Milo has also went on to earn himself a ban from Twitter. Back in December of 2015, Twitter had briefly suspended his account after changing his profile to describe himself as BuzzFeed's "social justice editor." The blue "verification" check mark was removed by the site the following month.
In February 2017, it was announced that Yiannopoulos would address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). A conservative website, Reagan Battalion, then posted video of 2015 and 2016 clips of YouTube interviews at the request of a 16-year-old Canadian student who was opposed to Yiannopoulos' CPAC address.
In the interview in a January 2016 episode of the podcast Drunken Peasants, Yiannopoulos stated that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can "happen perfectly consensually", because some 13-year-olds are, in his view, sexually and emotionally mature enough to consent to sex with adults; he spoke favourably both of gay 13-year-old boys having sex with adult men and straight 13-year-old boys having sex with adult women. He used his own experience as an example, saying he was mature enough to be capable of giving consent at a young age. He also stated that "paedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old, who is sexually mature" but rather that "paedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty."
Senator Philip Francolin says, that he plans to present a bill to the House of Commons Monday, recommending changing the name of the province. There is no word on what that name would be at this moment.
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