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Disinviting him after criticizing Berkeley seen as hypocritical
(TNFN Exclusive) You won’t see his name in the program. You won’t see signs for his talk. However, CPAC has nonetheless given Milo Yiannopoulos a room to host a panel on the alt-Right and his appearance on Bill Maher. His talk, which is reported to take place Saturday the 25th from 2-4pm in room E of the convention center.
Organizers for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) had re-invited the controversial figure after a debate over free speech and hypocrisy became heated at a staff meeting of conference personnel. Sources state that organizers were concerned that after the heavy criticism levied at Berkeley over uninviting Yiannopoulos, CPAC looks like gross hypocrites for canceling his appearance.
The anti-Yiannopoulos staff members objected that his apparent pro-pedophilia statements regarding grown men helping young gay boys through a coming of age about which they cannot talk to their parents were not political but criminal in nature, and advocating criminal acts, especially crimes against nature, and especially against children, even consensual, made his statements qualitatively different than his advocacy of enshrining bigotry in law.
Pro-Yiannopoulos staffers offered the rebuttal that speech is speech, and that offering a gay man a forum devoted to government policy is therefore an entirely unrelated event yet valuable in dispelling the notion that the GOP is anti-gay.
Eventually, the pro-Yiannopoulos side won when they offered to leave the talk out of the event program and rely on word of mouth.
“Yiannopoulos will avoid the subject of sex entirely,” said a source familiar with the discussion, “and keep the conversation focused on immigration, political correctness, and liberal anti-speech at colleges and universities creating a hostile environment for conservative students.”
It’s not clear what will happen now that it has been made public, and organizers will be having yet another emergency meeting on Friday the 24th to review their options. The source suggested that since the event was never in the program, they may yet un-invite him again and argue that he had never been restored to the conference.
TNFN will pursue an answer and post an update to this article when appropriate
Correction: An earlier version of this article said that his advocacy of HB2 was not to protect girls in women’s bathrooms but to create an atmosphere where more “coming of age” opportunities could arise. That was pure speculation on the part of our correspondent.
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