by PHILIPP OEHMKE
Milo Yiannopoulos
They helped him get elected, and now the alt-right movement is flourishing under Donald Trump’s presidency. Their recipe: racism, Islamophobia, sexism and chauvinism packaged in a hypocritical veneer of hipster cool.
Of course he’s staying in a Trump hotel – if only for the message it sends. In his room on the 35th floor of the Trump Soho in New York City, Milo Yiannopoulos is sitting in front of his laptop, making a few final changes to his speech.
It’s a Friday morning in late May, a few days after an Islamist terrorist killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester. In two hours, Yiannopoulos will give one of his now-infamous, mockery-filled speeches outside the City University of New York on 42nd Street.
This time, a Muslim woman named Linda Sarsour will be the target of his attack. Yiannopoulos didn’t know who the woman was until recently when he learned that Sarsour was scheduled to be the commencement speaker at the University’s graduation ceremony the following week. A crude coalition of orthodox Zionists, anti-Islam activists and Trump fans announced a rally to protest Sarsour’s speaking engagement — and Yiannopoulos, who was forced to resign from the radical right-wing website Breitbart in February after allegedly making statements supporting pedophilia, is anxious to finally return to the spotlight.
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