“Julia” is a 16-year-old Canadian high school student who “leans right”
on economics and foreign policy, and is generally disgusted with the
conservative movement’s pivot to reactionaries like Milo Yiannopoulos
who trade in “anti-Muslim, anti-feminism, and general bigotry.”
When CPAC announced that Yolo Minneapolis would be headlining their
event, Julia tracked down an old podcast where she’d been disgusted to
hear Yiannopoulos endorsing sexual activity between young boys and
adults. She brought the clip to the Reagan Battalion blog, whose
proprietors she convinced to feature it. The resulting shitstorm
derailed Yiannopoulos’s budding career, costing him a $250,000
book-deal, his job with Breitbard News, and his slot at CPAC.
Julia hopes that this will serve as a lesson to the conservative
movement, that embracing shock-driven, meanspirited jerky like
Yiannopoulos comes at a very high price: these cynical, empathy-free
manipulators might be fun to listen to, but their adorable sociopathy
also means they’ll have plenty of ugly baggage that will get out
someday. As she says: “You can’t just keep looking for enemies to attack and pointing the finger. Eventually, you have to stand up for something.”
