Obi-Wan: “Your father... was seduced by the Dark Side
of the Force. He ceased to be the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and 'became' Darth
Vader. When that happened, the good man who was your father was destroyed. So,
what I told you was true... from a certain point of view.”
Luke: “A certain point of view?”
Obi-Wan: “Luke, you're going to find that many of the
truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” – Star Wars:
Episode VI - “Return of the Jedi” (1983)
In modern America, with the
ongoing libertine influence of Howard
Stern and Jerry
Springer types, very few necessary taboos remain. One that does is
pedophilia. Another related prohibition is pederasty: relations between two
males when one is a minor. Unfortunately, gay provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos “went
there” back on January 4, 2016. The interview was little-known, but the rabidly
anti-right
MSM has legitimately hoisted him
by his own petard with it. The site of his disgrace was the satirical
left-leaning Drunken Peasants Podcast with Ben and TJ (“The Amazing
Atheist”). Oh, Milo's mistake of flapping gums and wrongheaded
sentiments!
Of late, he's learned the price
for speaking out against the perfectly reasonable age-of-consent laws. No
doubt disgusted, the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference
(CPAC) withdrew his invitation to speak. Also last Monday, his book publisher
Simon & Schuster abruptly axed his ironically named autobiography
“Dangerous”. Likewise, Tuesday, he resigned from his two-year gig as senior
editor for Breitbart News. A domino
effect of negative consequences undeterred by his hollow claim of “being
misunderstood”.
Don't bother parsing the meaning
of Yiannopoulos's wacky statements too closely. This Slick
Willie scenario echoes Bill Clinton's nonsensical: “It depends upon what
the meaning of the word 'is' is”. In each case, the optics are bad and the
message ill-conceived. Yet, the
downfall is swift and total only for the conservative. To compare
with a contemporary example, has Madonna's
career suffered one whit for publicly proclaiming her anarchist
desire to “blow up the White House”? Indeed, her lawless call for violence
and sedition is certainly on par with his salacious disregard of the laws that
protect children. Why do only liberals get a pass for every outrageous thing
they say?
Given Yiannopoulos's
foot-in-mouth plight, the Material Girl's song lyrics for “Words” (1992) are
apropos:
I don't want to hear your words
They always attack, please take them all back
If they're yours I don't want anymore
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