Milo Yiannopoulos: I hope journalists are murdered

Former alt-right icon Milo Yiannopoulos texted a newspaper saying that he hopes that "squads start gunning journalists down on sight."

The threat, which was texted to the New York Observer, came after the publication asked him for a statement after his booking was refused at a restaurant after they discovered his identity .

“I can’t wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,” the far-right provocateur texted a reporter for the New York Observer from the publication, reported splcenter.org .

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The response from the ex Breitbart Tech editor has resulted in some university campuses questioning whether or not they should invite Yiannopoulos on campus for fear of inciting hatred , reported The Advocate.

Yionnopoulos fell from grace when he was accused of endorsing pederasty in a series of clips which emerged in 2017 .

In one video reported by Uproxx, taken from an old livestream with the internet figure, Yiannopoulos attacks the age of consent as an “arbitrary one-size-fits-all policing of culture”.

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“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”

Yiannopoulos himself is a former journalist.

In just 24 hours, the columnist was dropped from far-right news website Breitbart News, had his book deal axed by Simon & Schuster, and was removed from the line-up of the Republican CPAC conference.

His book ‘Dangerous’ had been set for release this year, but after the cancellation of the Simon & Schuster deal Yiannopoulos was apparently unable to find another mainstream publisher. He resorted to self-publishing.

The disgraced alt-right figure recently led an influx of controversial figures to join the UK Independence Party.