Publisher Pulls Milo Yiannopoulos Book Over Pedophilia Comments

“Sad to see establishment types collapse into the same tactics as social justice warriors: name calling, deceptively edited videos, confected moral outrage and public shaming”.

In his tweet, Schlapp said of the reason for inviting Yiannopoulos in the first place: “We initially extended the invitation knowing that the free speech issue on college campuses is a battlefield where we need courageous, conservative standard-bearers”.

Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced Monday it would not publish Yiannopoulos’s upcoming autobiography risky.

“Milo Yiannopoulos’s bold voice has sparked much-needed debate on important cultural topics confronting universities, the LGBTQ community, the press, and the tech industry”, Breitbart said in a statement after Yiannopoulos’s announcement.

Yiannopoulos, speaking to reporters, said that two men, including a priest, had touched him inappropriately when he was between the ages of 13 and 16.

Yiannopoulos also released a written statement and a video stating that he has “outed” three child abuse victims, and addressing the earlier videos, saying he is “partly to blame”. I find people to be absolutely disgusting’.

On one of the podcasts where he discussed pedophilia, Yiannopoulos said, “I thought my fans were unshockable, and I have found something that they don’t like and it’s fat-shaming and, if you’re listening to this, buckle up buttercups because there’s plenty more coming”.

He also claimed that he himself had been a victim of child abuse.

At Breitbart, Yiannopoulos grew from a relatively anonymous blogger to a minor celebrity who was often closely associated with the alt-right.

Just minutes ago, Yiannopoulos took to his Facebook page to issue a lengthy response to the criticism he became embroiled in this weekend; however, it does mention the status of his CPAC appearance in anyway specifically.

The writer and provocateur has gained notoriety over the past year for his controversial comments and articles such as “Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?”.

Following the election of Donald Trump, Yiannopoulos’s star was on the rise.

He was banned from Twitter for promoting harassment of African-American actress Leslie Jones last July, and called women who complained of sexism in video game culture “an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners”.