To this end, Milo was encouraged to repeat the bad-faith argument that his trolling is an issue of freedom of speech, an argument that hides blatant misogyny, racism, and other forms of hate speech beneath the veneer of protected speech. More to the point, people felt vindicated by the editor’s attacks on the book’s bigotry.īut there’s something deeply disconcerting about the fact these editorial comments represent the efforts of a major publisher to make the vitriolic ramblings of an alt-right troll more palatable. There is certainly pleasure to be found in reading Milo’s frustrated editor call him out on things ranging from his narcissism to his ignorance of Shakespeare. Yesterday, the internet delighted in the scathing editorial notes ripping Milo Yiannopoulos’s manuscript for Dangerous to shreds.
