rant · moment 4 of 16
The Milo Yiannopoulos Creek Controversy and Deplatforming Rant
from Episode 150 - Your Thoughts Have No Value (with Luke Touma) · #150
12 min
Tim goes on an extended rant about Milo Yiannopoulos being booked and then protested at the Creek and the Cave, defending club owner Rebecca Trent, blasting failed comedians and Antifa for using violence and mob tactics to silence speech, and arguing that deplatforming reflects a lack of faith in free debate.
- Tim's comedy isn't for everybody, especially waiters who have no ambition beyond getting hammered.
- Milo Yiannopoulos's publicist reached out to Legion of Skanks, the self-proclaimed most offensive podcast on earth, to book him at the Creek in Long Island City.
- Protesters showed up in combat boots threatening to throw milkshakes and physically attack people, claiming they wanted everyone to feel safe.
- Antifa groups and leftist activists riot whenever controversial figures like Ben Shapiro or Milo appear at universities, supposedly to promote safety.
- Many of the New York comics opposing Milo's appearance are people who shouldn't have been booked anywhere based on their own lack of talent.
- Real comedians who perform nightly in hostile environments learn to shut down hecklers and can't be afraid of words—it's their entire job.
- If you can't shut someone down with your own words and arguments, banning their speech means you don't believe in debate or the power of rhetoric.
- Failed comedians don't believe in talent or hard work; they think successful comedians exploited loopholes rather than being able to make people laugh consistently.
- Though Tim disagrees with talented people like James and Domian on this issue, they're among the funniest people in the world and he respects them.
- The deplatforming crowd believes the only thing preventing fascism from taking root is that people haven't heard Milo's ideas yet—implying they respect the ideas' power too much to debate them.
- Rebecca Trent, who owns the Creek, had nothing to do with booking Milo but her own friends vandalized her restaurant and turned on her despite years of her helping struggling comedians.
- Comics who took money from Rebecca when they had cancer are now throwing her under the bus to salvage their failed careers.
- Freedom of speech means nothing if you threaten people with violence and intimidation; protesters don't understand that threatening someone into silence isn't protecting speech.
Milo YiannopoulosAntifaRebecca TrentLegion of SkanksLouis C.K.Kevin HartBen ShapiroJames and DomianGary VHoda Kotb