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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

ehrnst (4,901 posts)

The Alt-Rights Worst Troll Gets Book Deal for $250,000
 

Since Breitbart staffer and online troll Milo Yiannopoulos got banned from Twitter after inciting a massive wave of harassment against actress Leslie Jones, he’s been on a college tour — including a stop at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he openly mocked a transgender student. He also, apparently, has been finalizing a book deal: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Yiannopoulos has received a $250,000 deal from Threshold Editions, an imprint at Simon & Schuster.

A spokesperson from Threshold confirmed that they will be publishing Yiannopoulos’s book, Dangerous, on March 14, 2017. They added that it “will be a book on free speech by the outspoken and controversial gay British writer and editor at Breitbart News who describes himself as ‘the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.’”

[Lots of accusations. Yet, no evidence. -- SSG SB]

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/12/milo-yiannopoulos-usd250k-simon-and-schuster-book-deal.html

What's next? A gold-leafed, leather bound annotated new printing of Mein Kampf with a forward by Steve Bannon?

You can contact Simon and Schuster here to let them know what you think. Select the "feedback" topic.

http://www.simonandschuster.com/about/contact_us

nolabear (23,500 posts)

3. I know quite a few authors. S&S is getting slammed big time in the community.

And getting the "liberals don't believe in freedom of speech" blowback. They have every right to publish it, and we have every right to create consequences.

ehrnst (4,901 posts)

4. Damn straight. It's called the free market. (nt)

Volaris (3,441 posts)

6. The other side doesn't like free markets. They like markets that they can control.

1. Projection. You aren't declining to buy a book. You never would have bought the book. You're demanding no one else be allowed to buy the book.

2. It's time to start shutting down Proglodytes.

WhiteTara (19,040 posts)

5. Here are the corporate phone numbers

Corporate Headquarters
SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
PHONE: 212-698-7000

Call them next week and tell them how you feel about them publishing hate speech. I know I will. It does have an effect because without customers they won't have a business.

Honestly, we need to call that number as well.

If all S&S hears from are these howling infants that is the all S&S will perceive.

Sherman A1 (18,594 posts)

7. I think it's fine for S&S to publish this book

And while I have no use for the author, they have a right to express themselves. It will be interesting to see just what the sales of this book turn out to be and how quickly they end up on the shelf at Dollar General?

ehrnst (4,901 posts)

8. No one is saying that they don't have the right to publish hate speech.

I'm just saying that the market should tell them what it has to say about it, and boycott if they feel strongly about it.

pstokely (8,487 posts)

16. won't they just buy it in bulk to drive it to the chart of the charts?

like do with others?

Warren DeMontague (75,547 posts)

9. about the ONLY thing Milo is good at is getting certain corners of the "left" to try & shut him up.
 
Thereby proving his point, that "liberals" are authoritarians who don't believe in free speech.

So, congratulations, you're doing exactly what he wants, here. Best response to that guy is to go "yeah. sure" and ignore him. But he's very good at needling a reaction out of the folks he wants to get a response from.

Honestly, the guy is Gay and he's too young to really remember the last time, for instance, that the Republicans ran the US (yes, I realize he's British) ... I suspect that after they show their true colors, including the homophobia, in a few years he'll grow/wise up just as people like Andrew Sullivan eventually did. In the meantime, he's made a very lucrative career out of little more than setting people off and then sitting back as they try to silence him.

Comparing him to Hitler- or his Jr. Varsity trolling to Mein Kampf- is ridiculous.

Warren DeMontague (75,547 posts)

13. So.. do you want him to make -more- money, or not?

Because all anyone is doing by demanding that S & S not publish dude's book, is writing the ad campaign for the thing:

 "find out what liberals didn't think you should be allowed to read!!11!"

Too late.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028416110

[67 Rover]

ehrnst (4,901 posts)

The Alt-Rights Worst Troll Gets Book Deal for $250,000
 
Quote

    Since Breitbart staffer and online troll Milo Yiannopoulos got banned from Twitter after inciting a massive wave of harassment against actress Leslie Jones, he’s been on a college tour — including a stop at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he openly mocked a transgender student. He also, apparently, has been finalizing a book deal: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Yiannopoulos has received a $250,000 deal from Threshold Editions, an imprint at Simon & Schuster.

    A spokesperson from Threshold confirmed that they will be publishing Yiannopoulos’s book, Dangerous, on March 14, 2017. They added that it “will be a book on free speech by the outspoken and controversial gay British writer and editor at Breitbart News who describes himself as ‘the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.’”


[Lots of accusations. Yet, no evidence. -- SSG SB]

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/12/milo-yiannopoulos-usd250k-simon-and-schuster-book-deal.html

What's next? A gold-leafed, leather bound annotated new printing of Mein Kampf with a forward by Steve Bannon?

You can contact Simon and Schuster here to let them know what you think. Select the "feedback" topic.

http://www.simonandschuster.com/about/contact_us

I myself will be waiting for the limited edition bound in human skin. 

[Patriot Guard Rider]

All this does is prove the point that liberals LOVE them some gays, blacks and women UNLESS those gays, blacks and women are conservative. (Milo, Ben Carson and Sarah Palin as examples).

They are then to be reviled, mocked and derided.

[DumbAss Tanker]

ehrnst (4,901 posts)

...

What's next? A gold-leafed, leather bound annotated new printing of Mein Kampf with a forward by Steve Bannon?

...

That right there is why YOU won't be getting a quarter-million dollar book deal.  Although a 'Forward!' might have appealed to that particular author.

[Carl]

Yet they celebrate the mockumentaries of the Flint MI whale.


Btw,how is Pittstain doing with his book sales,has Amazon figured a way to charge less then a penny or do you have to take 10 copies?

[landofconfusion80]

Yet they celebrate the mockumentaries of the Flint MI whale.


Btw,how is Pittstain doing with his book sales,has Amazon figured a way to charge less then a penny or do you have to take 10 copies?

His latest is going for 2.99! That's less than a Disney movie knockoff in the bargain bin at walmart

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[Karin]

Have these idiots never heard the term "Banned in Boston?"

They link to a petition as well, to stop the publishing.  It's got 82 signatures with a goal of 100,000.

[Gamle-ged]

"...describes himself as ‘the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.’”

Not being transgender, th' guy (still) has balls!...

[docstew]

I wish someone with a mole would gently nudge them into deciding that they were going to steal the books and burn them publicly...

[FunkyZero]

Ok, wait. So now it's cool to ban/burn books? Do I need to update my "rules for idiots" guide?
It's hard to keep up with the rate of change right now.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Ok, wait. So now it's cool to ban/burn books? Do I need to update my "rules for idiots" guide?
It's hard to keep up with the rate of change right now.

There is only one rule among Proglodytes: Gain and hold power.

Banning books is bad if it hurts their ability to gain and hold power.

Banning books is good if it helps their ability to gain and hold power.

[98ZJUSMC]

Dearest I(D)iots,

MILO Rockets to #1 Spot on Amazon Bestsellers List One Day After Announcing Book

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/12/30/milo-rockets-to-2-spot-on-amazon-bestsellers-list-one-day-after-announcing-book/

   

[Karin]

But but but...what about those 82 signatures demanding S&S not publish????

   I knew that would happen.  That guy is quite beloved. 

[freedumb2003b]

But but but...what about those 82 signatures demanding S&S not publish????

 :lmao:  I knew that would happen.  That guy is quite beloved.

It is up to 86.  Lets see at about a minute to 2 minutes per signature it will take about 2500 hours or 3 months nonstop to get to 100,000.  Assuming the rate stays constant.


Yep, this is a MOVEMENT!

[Skul]

I myself will be waiting for the limited edition bound in human skin. 

Foreskin, I presume.  😨