Milo Yiannopoulos says Australia is the last remaining bastion of free speech
Milo Yiannopoulos says the nation is the last remaining bastion of free speech as he announces he is writing a book on the country.
Milo Yiannopoulos says Australia is the one last remaining bastions of free speech as he announces he is writing a book about the country.
The alt-right commentator is preparing to kick off a nationwide tour with controversial right wing speaker Ann Coulter in November.
Mr Yiannopoulos said his book, entitled Australia You’re My Only Hope, which is his take on the nation’s state of affairs will implore Australians to defend free speech.
“It’s my last chance, my last ditch effort to persuade Australians to stand up against the cancers of public life that have so utterly ruined the public square in Europe and in America.” he told Sky News last night.
“Australia is the one last remaining bastion of free speech where people can actually crack a joke and not get fired.”
Mr Yiannopoulos said the “diseases and cancers and toxins” of feminism, free speech and political correctness were poisoning Australia.
“Whether it is this ridiculously obsequiousness about welcome to country, whether it is the free speech crisis on campuses, this stuff seems to be coming to ahead in Australia and if anything since my last tour it appear to be getting worse not better.”
When questioned why he had failed to cough up for the $50,000 bill charged by police to pay for the extra resources after violent protests broke out, Mr Yiannopoulos said it was his tour promoter who refused to pay and said the police had been taken over by the left.
“This is the most amazing thing that the left does is take control of institutions with these left wing political appointees,” he said.
“Police chiefs and all the rest of it … tell blatant untruths about right wing protesters while protecting left wing protesters.”
Mr Yiannopoulos said he wants Australia to be a model for the rest of the world.
“I want Australia to be a model for the rest of the world … look nothing bad happens if you crack a joke about this, you know what this person is ridiculous and has ridiculous ideas and we should stop pretending they are a serious intellectual.”
Mr Yiannopoulos was fired from Breitbart after a recording in which he defended sex between boys and men surfaced. He has since apologised for his comments.
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