Hey Ben I'm a huge fan.
Thank you for coming here.
I kind of wanted to.
I was thinking about this question on the
way in and I knew is going to be a contentious
one for you.
I wanted to ask you a question about your
best friend Milo Yiannopoulos I know you guys have
a lot of history.
I'll say bluntly but I was thinking about
this a lot and I know that I pay a lot of
attention to Milo.
I'm kind of a big fan of his too so I mean
I'm sorry about that.
You're.
Really even like the
tooth caps and all that.
I mean I wasn't I wasn't in
the veneers and the butt injections.
I thought who I thought was beautiful before
then.
So I mean but no I really.
I'll get to my question.
So I know you guys are really really split
and he said some horrible things about you
and vice versa.
Maybe not quite.
But I was kind of wondering.
I said he's not a conservative.
He sent me a picture of a black child on the
day of my son's birth.
I know.
Not quite the same.
i Know I Know I Know But my point
my point is that like conservative speakers
like yourself like there's the intellectual
dark web there's a group of you guys that
kind of you know help bolster each other up.
And I know that he's not necessarily a part
of that but I was wondering if like if people
in general could see that someone like yourself
is willing to extend an olive branch of some
sort.
And this is like totally.
Well here's the olive branch that
i extended to Milo and I will say this I don't
feel the need to extend an olive branch to
somebody who sends me pictures of black children
on the day my son was born.
But the olive branch that I send to Milo is
the same olive branch that I extend to anyone
with whom I have significant disagreement.
When he was banned from Twitter I said he
shouldn't have been.
And that's even though a lot of the Twitter
trolls I was receiving here sent me anti-Semitic
names on a fairly frequent basis were Milo
fans.
So you know I think that you know if Milo
you know I don't believe that people should
generally be banned from social media platforms.
I think Milo said a lot of really terrible
things.
And I think that he has been a detriment to
the conservative movement by linking the conservative
movement with a lot of very bad ideas.
Now does that mean everything that he's ever
said is bad.
No.
I mean when he.
There are some things that he has said about
political correctness with which I generally
agree.
My biggest problem of my Milo and this was
my problem before he imploded right.
My biggest problem Milo we had this argument
even before he went into full.
Alt-right Alt-lite.
Whenever he wants to call himself My biggest
problem with him was in like early March 2016
when he suggested that the future of America
was not conservatism not constitutional conservatism
it was a new big government populism that
was going to take over where that left off.
And I fundamentally disagreed with that.
And he added that he thought the political
that basically being politically incorrect.
Was.
The same thing as being an asshole.
I don't think those two things are the same.
I think he can be politically correct which
is to say you say valuable things that people
find unpalatable but they are actually valuable
they are arguments that need to be made and
be politically incorrect that's not the same
thing as somebody dropping the N-word or somebody
dropping a slur or somebody you know doing
what Milo was doing and showing pictures of
actual transgender people on screens and mocking
them for the crowd.
I don't think that's necessary.
I think you can make a fully cogent argument
about what transgender ism is or what we ought
to do as a society about sexual differentiation
without doing that sort of thing.
I think that it actually lends a lot of credence
to the other side which is politically correct
in cracking down on free speech.
When you conflate those two things when you
conflate incivility or being a jerk with being
politically incorrect so those are my main
problems with Milo as far as like.
Having a conversation again I don't really
see the need cause i don't see the productivity
i don't have conversations with a lot of folks.
But I also don't think Milo should be banned.
And I've never called for him to be so in
fact I've openly called even when we were
you know even when this was at its worst I
said that he shouldn't he should not be banned
from Twitter.
 
