It's funny because people who actually watch his videos, rather than letting the media cherrypick and "summarise" his career, seem to disagree with that.

"Your banging on about context only applies when it proves you right, huh?"

"Obviously context is taken into consideration"

Clearly all of those people were big racists (especially Mel Brooks - he put N-bombs in his movies too!)

No. He paid men to hold up signs with a slogan on it that was clearly NOT endorsing genocide, but rather being employed purely for shock value.

Because it is very clearly presented as such in the video.

You can be "socially aware" enough to know that it's offensive, and still use it in a situation where you want to use offensive material for a comic purpose.

Quite. South Park gets a lot of credit for managing to do essentially this class of material without ever really picking up the kind of frothing far-right nobhead crowd that lesser comedians probably would have by now. By contrast, you have people like Warren Mitchell, who had to deal with Neo Nazis telling him how…

It's always a bit weak to hold people accountable for what their fans do unless you have some basis for thinking that they're being encouraged to do it. This isn't a Milo situation.

I'm using the royal "you" here, obv.

Well no. What he's blaming them for is misleading people about the nature of the content. He's not saying "I didn't do it", he's saying "it's not what they're saying it is". Whether you agree is another matter, but the problem that some people seem to be struggling to deal with is that, in order to have a valid…

"My implication was that there isn't an acceptable context for "Death to all Jews" and "Hitler did nothing wrong" jokes and that he's full of shit."

"He doesn't regret having done it because he recognizes that joke went too far,"

He paid them a very small amount of money to do something weird/inappropriate, in a video in which he paid lots of other people very small amounts of money to do things that were weird/inappropriate.

Literally the most intelligent comment on this article.

Said this in another post but I really want an answer: how do you guys square your reaction to this with your demands that Milo Yiannapolous simply MUST have his media platform because otherwise people won't know how awful he is and thus will think he's amazing?

"Serious question: what's the attraction of watching someone else play video games?"

So? You don't have to like him to see it as a problem that a major news outlet is publishing lies about him. Maybe the truth is far more awful, but that's not what they chose to publish.

"Something can be a "joke" and still be anti-Semitic."

"So if I paid someone to hold up a sign that said "Skip Bifferty fucks kindergarteners, probably because Skip was anally raped by all the males in Skip's family", but didn't mean it, it would be irony?"