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June 7, 2021, 10:16 am*
Disgraced former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos made the claim on orthodox Christian news program Tru News that ever since he publicly announced that he is “ex-gay,” dogs no longer bark at him like they always used to, and he believes this is a sign from God that he’s done the right thing. If you had mercifully forgotten about him, Yiannopoulos is the guy who rose to fame by capitalizing on the “Gamergate” controversy that led to the vicious harassment of women and people of color in the video game industry and community.
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“When I made my announcement [about being “ex-gay”], the first thing that happened — which will make you laugh, but it’s true—is dogs stopped barking at me,” he said in a video highlighted by Right Wing Watch.
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“This is going to sound so stupid, but this is just how I think that God reveals himself to us, right? This is just my experience of it. I was somebody who invariably, without exception, used to make dogs go crazy.”
Yiannopoulos repeatedly stressed that his claim was going to sound stupid, which may be the most honest thing he’s said in quite some time. In fact, host Rick Wiles, a notoriously homophobic preacher who is currently recovering from COVID-19/karma, refuted his story almost immediately but noting that his dogs have never barked at Yiannopoulos, but they do bark at co-host Lauren Witzke.
“You must have some work left to do,” said Yiannopoulos to Witzke.
The far-right pundit fell from the spotlight after his harassment of comedian Leslie Jones got him banned from Twitter, and his general habit of encouraging harassment caught him a Facebook ban as well. Leaked emails showing him working with white supremacists and actual Nazis further sunk his career, and accusations of promoting pedophilia ended his job with Breitbart as well as any support from the mainstream political right in the U.S.
This left him with nowhere to go but to the ultra-conservative Christians as a supposed “ex-gay,” making the official announcement in March 2021 in what was widely dismissed as just another grift by anyone not desperate to pretend that it’s possible to pray away the gay. He now claims that his husband is merely his “housemate” and that he threw his $150,000 engagement, which he called a “sodomy stone,” into the ocean.
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About as many people appear to believe the story that dogs like Yiannopoulos now as believe that he’s no longer gay.
This is a brilliant scientific finding! It means that if I ever want to rile up my annoying neighbour’s dog I just have to choose to be gay while walking past their house to drive the dog crazy. Thank you for that in depth, methodical discovery!
— CuriousAndMoreCurious
(@curious_more) June 4, 2021
Gay ghosts in my empty driveway! It all makes sense now!!
— Prozac Horseman ¯_
_/¯ (@BunchOfFives) June 6, 2021
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This is a man who briefly thought he was interesting to a large mass of people, and will spend the rest of his life in desperate denial over finding out that he was actually boring. https://t.co/IHpKCGlUJF
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) June 6, 2021
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*First Published: June 7, 2021, 10:15 am
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