Hardly surprising really - the supporters he has here from the weirdo's on the far right.
In October 2017, leaked emails revealed that Yiannopoulos had repeatedly solicited
neo-Nazi
and
white supremacist
figures on the alt-right for feedback and story ideas in his work for Breitbart.
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The leaked emails also showed that his book and many of his Breitbart articles were
ghost-written
.
Yiannopoulos has been accused of being an apologist for or supporting
child sexual abuse
, a charge he strenuously denies. The charge arises from a video clip in which he said that sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and adult men and women can be "perfectly consensual" and positive experiences for the boys.
[10]
Following the release of the tape, Yiannopoulos was forced out of his position at Breitbart, and lost a contract to publish his autobiography with
Simon and Schuster
. Yiannopoulos has denied that he is a supporter of such relationships, and claimed that his statements were an attempt to cope with his own past victimhood, as an object of
child abuse
by unnamed older men. His critics, in claiming that he is a supporter of child sexual abuse, also invoke a second video, in which he stated that it "really is not that big of a deal" and called its victims "selfish brats" for going public and identifying their accusers years after they were abused.
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