Milo Yiannopoulos, at a stop on his pre-pub book tour, The Dangerous Faggot Tour”If you want to see how Donald Trump’s not-so-peculiar brand of fascism could successfully roll out across America, you could do worse than making a study of what’s going on in the book industry right now with the Milo Yiannopoulos affair.įor example, the way Yiannopoulos’ publisher, Simon and Schuster, continues to insist on its ludicrous-and achingly transparent-assertion that it would be censorship to not publish a hate speech monger like Yiannopulos, and the way the mouthpieces of the industry-the American Association of Publishers, the American Booksellers Association, the Authors Guild-continue to stand by such a perverse conflation of protest and censorship, wagging their heads harder and harder till it seems their eyebrows are going to fly off, is all mindful of the behavior of Senate Democrats of late.
