I think I agree with all of that.
I find breitbart a bit too much at times myself. However it's interesting you describe him as a contrarian. Again, I don't necessarily disagree, but it does imply that those who don't subscribe to an orthodox consensus should be silenced, which I disagree with.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 17 Jun 2016, 19:09,
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I'm not advocating silencing anyone
My point is he's a contrarian for reasons of self promotion. He's views do not just happen to be contrarian, he has chosen to be contrarian because it promotes him as a media and cultural personality. I've no doubt that were he to have been born into a different generation, he would have been a beatnik, a merry prankster, a punk or even a PC warrior of the 90's. All out of expediency.
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fair enough.
But I do like seeing smug, arrogant and complacent twats having their Weltanschauung challenged. It's just a shame he does it in such a highly provocative and obnoxious way.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 17 Jun 2016, 19:46,
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Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of that too, I wish it was coming from someone better too.
I'm so glad I graduated before all of this nonsense on campuses. At the last open debate I attended at a uni was about Syria, the first question from the audience was from an 18 year old girl (ostensibly cis gender female) who complained about the slight gender imbalance in the panel. I almost cracked a tooth from grinding. It was a fucking embarrassment.
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