{"id":101760,"date":"2018-01-06T00:44:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101760"},"modified":"2018-01-04T23:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:57:32","slug":"russell-kirk-milo-yiannopolous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/01\/russell-kirk-milo-yiannopolous.html","title":{"rendered":"From Russell Kirk to Milo Yiannopolous&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The spectacle of the decay of American Conservative Catholicism from this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Conservative-Mind-Burke-Eliot\/dp\/0895261715\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=marksheacom-20&amp;linkId=76a5042f8242b6508b0d25a968461c75\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0895261715&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=marksheacom-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=marksheacom-20&amp;l=li2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0895261715\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>to Milo Yiannopolous will be the subject of some future history.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just the editorial comments on his ridiculous book <em>Dangerous<\/em>, made by some poor sod whose job was to try to make this glob of junk into a book. It\u2019s hilarious:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I didn\u2019t read the manuscript. Just the comments. They\u2019re\u2026amazing. Even better than the excerpts in the filing.<\/p>\n<p>And a pretty good summary of the book I imagine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2kPESxAlA9\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2kPESxAlA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Mei (@sarahmei) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarahmei\/status\/946349190958915584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">December 28, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mindy-fischer-writer.com\/2017\/12\/editors-notes-alt-right-milo-yiannopoulos-awful-new-book-absolutely-amazing\/?utm_content=buffere5d1c&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">It goes on and on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cDon\u2019t make fun of school shooters- and certainly don\u2019t try to compare them to Liberals.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cLet\u2019s leave \u201cfecal waste\u201d analogies out of this chapter.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis entire paragraph is just repeating Fake News. There was NO blood, NO semen and there was NO Satanism. Delete.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cStick with virgins. \u201cPerverts\u201d is unnecessary.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAttacking speakers as ugly diminishes your credibility. Actually- it ERASES it.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAbsurd name calling.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cNo need to drag the lesbians into this! And DON\u2019T use lesbian as a slur!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThe way you casually bring up the KKK makes no sense.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAbortion is off topic here- too hot-button an issue for a stray comment. And the Nubian harem joke is inappropriate here.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis rant is off the point.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThe use of a phrase like \u201ctwo-faced backstabbing bitches\u201d diminishes your overall point.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAre you seriously telling the reader that you advocate SMEAR CAMPAIGNS?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cParis Hilton is NOT the best authority to quote here.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t use \u201ctrannies\u201d here- it just derails your argument.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis is not true.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis is not true either.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s always a mistake for an author to say \u201cI can think of no better explanation\u2026\u201d It\u2019s your job to think of a better explanation. It\u2019s what we paid you an advance for. THINK HARDER and replace this long anonymous internet post with prose of your own.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis entire section is the most poorly thought out section in the book. If you want to make a case for gay men going back into the closet and marrying women just to have children, you\u2019re going to have to employ a lot more intellectual rigor than you use here.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis is definitely not the pace for more of your narcissism.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cYour ego gets in the way in this paragraph. Delete.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then it seems that the editor lost all patience with Milo.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cDELETE UGH.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cNO MORE REFERENCES TO YOUR BOOK ADVANCE OR THE PUBLISHING PROCESS.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cNO!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cDELETE ENTIRE CHAPTER!\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cNO. IT. HAS. NOT.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(This one\u2019s my favorite)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cAll this pop psychology is hogwash. You can\u2019t say ugly people are drawn to the left. Have you ever seen the people at a Trump rally?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis is a stupid way to end a terrible chapter. DELETE.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis joke is not worth making.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cThis entire argument is ridiculous.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cSo much inappropriate humor is irritating.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cYou will need to develop a stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This guy was the doyenne of the Catholic Christianist Alt Right. Damian Thompson hired him to blog for the <em>Catholic Herald<\/em>.\u00a0 Breitbart published his \u201cGuide to the Alt Right\u201d that help promote the work of Nazi Richard Spencer.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchmilitant.com\/...\/the-catholic-magazine-interview-with-milo-they-re...\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christianist rabble rousers and enemies of the Church like Michael Voris and Church Militant treated him like some kind of prophet sent by God to rebuke and chew out evil Pope Francis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he fell out of favor with that crowd.\u00a0 But as long as he was useful to them, they played the game of pretending that he was a brilliant clown prince who, gosh darn it, spoke the truth about Trump and our horrible pope.<\/p>\n<p>This is the quality of \u201cthought\u201d that has come to characterize the absurd noise machine of the Catholic Right, which takes seriously people like Yiannopolous and Voris as long as they tell them what their itching ears want to hear and shout down the words of Pope Francis and the Magisterium.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spectacle of the decay of American Conservative Catholicism from this: to Milo Yiannopolous will be the subject of some future history. 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