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[psyfi]

Published by Simon & Schuster. This is disgraceful.

Threshold and Simon & Schuster were not available for comment, but people with knowledge of the situation say Yiannopoulos is getting an advance of $250,000 for his book. The autobiographical book is his first, though Yiannopoulos, a flamoboyant and gay conservative, has a wide following for his writing, especially at Breitbart News, where he is an editor.

"I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building — but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money," Yiannopoulos told THR.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/milo-yiannopoulos-strikes-250k-book-deal-959745

 

[jack_package_200]

Its disgusting that someone would throw money at that neo nazi cunt.

 

[tbm24]

Was only a matter of time till he got one really. I feel this is the end goal for many people like him in social media, the Ann Coulter model.

 

[blackjaw]

Should've thrown money at him closely followed by a fist to his face

 

[il Diavolo]

getting rewarded for being a terrible person. sounds about right.

 

[disappeared]

Simon and Schuster... the house responsible for publishing the likes of Hemingway... signed this.

Disgraceful.

 

[The Kree]

Ha ha ha I get paid to be a life-ruining asshole.

 

[studyguy]

Did this thread just get shut down.
Why insist on making another one and giving a nobody attention.

 

[Sabas]

He was terrible enough to get banned on Twitter, anything longer than 140 characters of his bile would just be magnitudes more vile.

 

[Volimar]

I only know about this because people I follow on twitter have been retweeting Zoe Quinn about it who seems pretty livid that Milo is getting press and her book deal isn't.

 

[Puck Beaverton]

Ann Coulter has a career lasting a decade+, so of course he also will.

 

[Poor GRIMES]

As a gay man, fuck this gay man.

 

[SuperInuit]

actually no, not giving this prick any further attention

 

[ElNarez]

why the fuck does S&S think there's money to be made in this, when most of his fanbase can already get his life story and his opinions, at unbearable length, in the columns he dictates to his interns for breitbart FOR FREE?

 

[Darryl M R]

Did this thread just get shut down.
Why insist on making another one and giving a nobody attention.

Wait the thread got closed? Did it go off topic or something? The "giving this person attention" argument doesn't make much sense whenever it is brought up on a discussion board for discussing topics--unless certain topics goes against the ToS and rules. But hey--there's a reason I'm not a mod here so it's not my call

 

[BatDan]

Are you honestly surprised?
It not Simon & Schuster, someone would have given up a book deal.

 

[Staccat0]

I have a bunch of dickheads shoutin at me about this on Twittr because I dared make a joke at Milo's defense. Lots of "CAN YOU PROVE HE SUPPORTS WHITE SUPREMACY"

People are so fucking naive

 

[Escape Goat]

Never heard of him.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

Its disgusting that someone would throw money at that neo nazi cunt.

Oh the irony

 

[studyguy]

Wait the thread got closed? Did it go off topic or something?

The other thread that literally just occurred not 5 minutes ago was shut down for the same topic. Shut down because I mean what are you going to talk about other than he's shit.

 

[kevin1025]

Simon & Schuster are getting a lot of flack over this on Twitter and elsewhere, and rightfully so. Voice or not, opinion or not, it's not a good look to be associated with this line of thinking.

Plus that amount of money is gross for the junk he says.

 

[parrotbeak]

Current screenshot of wikipedia

 

[Volimar]

Never heard of him.

Modbot?

 

[Oriel]

Thanks OP for not using "Alt-Right" to describe this white supremicist waste of space. Actual fascists/Nazis don't get book deals from reputable publishers so it's time the media stopped using the utterly false Alt-Right term in describing your typical Nazi scumbags.

 

[FyreWulff]

who's this guy? he should get a verified twitter account

 

[psyfi]

Did this thread just get shut down.
Why insist on making another one and giving a nobody attention.

I did a search, didn't see anything.

 

[Escape Goat]

Modbot?

Oops

 

[Trojita]

I did not expect this edit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster

 

[studyguy]

I did a search, didn't see anything.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1329133
It's on the second page now actually.

 

[Darryl M R]

The other thread that literally just occurred not 5 minutes ago was shut down for the same topic. Shut down because I mean what are you going to talk about other than he's shit.

I was in the thread and then I had to hop on a phone call and not tracking that thread as much so when I saw this one popped up I was confused when we just had another one.

Most threads nowadays in OT can be summed up as posts calling X person trash. I would argue there's merit in who he is as a person and his venom that goes beyond "just a crap person."

Not disagreeing that he isn't worth talking about though. When I see his name I come in for the memes and gifs--no one on GAF agrees with this guy but I enjoy the humorous ways we all explain why

 

[Coriolanus]

Ha ha ha I get paid to be a life-ruining asshole.

ben shapiro made a living of that.

 

[Dishwalla]

idontknowher.gif

 

[psyfi]

The other thread that literally just occurred not 5 minutes ago was shut down for the same topic. Shut down because I mean what are you going to talk about other than he's shit.

It's important to spread awareness on spreading fascism and shut it down. Not talking about it is silent approval.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

How the hell can he be nazi

Has the world gone mad

He'd be one of the first to get shot under hitler rule

 

[Dongs Macabre]

It's disgusting how being a serial harasser is now a viable career path.

 

[yanipheonu]

Curiously, his entry in my guide book is as follows:

"He is a mindless jerk who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."

 

[ghostofsparta]

Money over everything.

 

[studyguy]

It's important to spread awareness on spreading fascism and shut it down. Not talking about it is silent approval.

I'd argue more damage has been done by simply shuttering his twitter than anything else. For him in particular, kicking him to the wayside and ignoring seems pretty appropriate.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

 

[Kusagari]

Maybe he'll tell us some more about how his fear of dating a bossy feminist made him gay.

 

[Darryl M R]

I'd argue more damage has been done by simply shuttering his twitter than anything else. For him in particular, kicking him to the wayside and ignoring seems pretty appropriate.

Wasn't shutting down his twitter exactly "kicking him to the wayside"?

 

[Gemüsepizza]

I'd argue more damage has been done by simply shuttering his twitter than anything else. For him in particular, kicking him to the wayside and ignoring seems pretty appropriate.

But wasn't this because people put pressure on Twitter? The same needs to be done with companies like Simon & Schuster.

Edit: Oh did you mean damage to us?

 

[Kaako]

Money over everything.

Capitalism at its finest...
Fuck this Milo dude & Simon & Schuster.

 

[Polari]

I only know about this because people I follow on twitter have been retweeting Zoe Quinn about it who seems pretty livid that Milo is getting press and her book deal isn't.

Well tbf he's a lot more famous than her.

 

[psyfi]

I'd argue more damage has been done by simply shuttering his twitter than anything else. For him in particular, kicking him to the wayside and ignoring seems pretty appropriate.

Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away. Like really, when has an uneducated and inactive populace ever been the way to go?

 

[kevin1025]

There is a (incredibly) small upside to this: for that amount of money, it would take short of a miracle for the book to earn out and become profitable. So if anything, he'll be seen as a literary failure, or a failure, period.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

How the hell can he be nazi

Has the world gone mad

He'd be one of the first to get shot under hitler rule

Nazi's are not that smart.

 

[The Albatross]

$250k doesn't sound like that much when we're in the realm of book deals, but what do I know.

Wonder if I buy any books from Simon & Schuster recently, I'll try to avoid them for a while.

 

[BocoDragon]

Doesn't seem that different from Ann Coulter getting published by Penguin Random House.

Outrageous pundits sell books. Sad but true.

 

[ModBot]

I can't find this guy's blue checkmarked Twitter account, which you'd expect someone important and verified to have, so who cares.