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Mitchell
January

13, 2017

Yiannopoulos;

Tom

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PM

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Madine

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to Milo.docx

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Ivers

Vice President and Editorial Director, Threshold Editions
Vice President and Senior Editor, Gallery Books
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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Tel: 212-698-2897 | Fax: 212-632-4084
Mitchell.Ivers@SimonandSchuster.com

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DANGEROUS

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CONTENTS

Preamble:

Prologue:

On Freedom

of Speech and Political

Correctness

The Art of the Troll

1. Why the Progressive
2, Why the Alt-Right
3. Why Twitter

Hates Me

Hates Me

4. Why Feminists
5. Why Black

Left Hates Me

Hate Me

Lives

6. Why the Media

Matter

Hates Me

Hates Me

7.
,'. Why Other-Gay-PeopleEstablishment_Gays_Hate
8. Why Establishment
9. Why Muslims

Republicans

Me

Hate Me

Hate Me

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Gamers

DON'T

12]_. Why My College

Epilogue:

Hate Me

Tour Is So Awesome

How to Be a Dangerous

Faggot

(liven

If

You'

re Not Gay)

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PREAMBLE

ON FREEDOM

OF SPEECH

AND

POLITICAL

CORRECTNESS

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PROLOGUE
THE

ART

TROLL

OF THE

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world's

most famous

trolls,

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public

--

that means it was the year of me

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as one of the

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between

trolls

and political

leftist

crybaby

disagreement

circles,

were one and the same.

and those who send poorly-worded

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of the alt-right

organizations

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descend in a firestorm
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by getting

left-wing

activists,

of fury on anyone who

invariably

making

themselves

look

in the process.

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hilarious,

public

frog called Pepe branded

"anti-hate"

than that. It is an art, beyond

and one part viciousness

there is no escape without

memester

shares the frog picture,

and joyous

has many elements
pranking,

entertaining

public

still refuse to accept that

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and generally

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and declared

a "holy

but their confusion

wrong,

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leader."
crusade"

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to trolling

The Neo-Nazis,
against me.

is so glorious

that I almost

either one of them.

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them

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I am surpassed

a man who essentially

him (in itself

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another troll),

trolled

only by one man, or, rather one God-Emperor:
his way to the presidency.

only went

after deserving

targets:

Like

as I like to call

me, Daddy,

the media,

Hillary

Donald

and Bill

Clinton,

correctness.
A master

showman,

that most of their leading
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people

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over a year? That's

Donald
lights

J. Trump

can command

the media's

attention

despite the fact

despise him.

who hate you and everything

a level of trolling

you stand for to point

cameras

at you for

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one must

I can only hope to achieve

one day.

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level of disregard

cruelty
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for trolling.
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It's one of the reasons why trolls
but

we'

re the only ones telling
So beware,

lefties:

are winning:

hate us, yell,

-stamp your feet, yes, yes

the truth these days.

so long as facts remain

the age of the trolls

offensive,

will

never end

***

I am an icon.
A messiah.
A bleached-blond
scolds, third-wave
professors,

"fat

creature

feminists,
acceptance"

of the night

progressive

who keeps the nannies,
Black

bloggers,
transgender

advocates,

Lives

lobbyists

Matter

cultural

pearl-clutchers,

gender studies

activists,

and Islamophobia

watchdogs

up at

night.
My name is Milo,

and this book will

and hates as "the dangerous
I'm

a firestarter

rose to infamy
created absolute

as one of America's

who started out as an obscure

most well-known

in half a dozen industries;

polemicists
mMedia,

the wrong

becoming
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celebrity,

an the most in-demand
Faggot

of young

P and publishing,

the biggest

by almost

video

merely

tech blogger

and media personalities.

by being

single

college

handedly

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