'He's the embodiment of awfulness in millennial conservatism': 16-year-old Canadian girl reveals how she took down Milo Yiannopoulos by exposing how he tried to rationalize pedophilia 

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The downfall of controversial alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos was a chain of events initiated by an anonymous 16-year-old Canadian girl, it was learned on Saturday.

It was the teenager who tipped off a little-known conservative blog to the existence of an old podcast in which Yiannopoulos, the author and now-former Breitbart editor, is heard speaking in favor of pederasty, according to Vox.

The recording of Yiannopoulos went viral on social media, resulting in widespread condemnation.

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) rescinded its invitation to Yiannopoulos, who was slated to give the keynote address.

Milo Yiannopolous quit Breitbart on Monday afternoon amid mounting controversy over what he said about 'coming of age of relationships'

Simon and Schuster canceled a $250,000 deal to publish his book. He was also forced to resign as technology editor from Breitbart.

But none of this could have happened were it not for the actions of a teenage girl from Canada who says that she was horrified by what she calls the embrace by mainstream conservatives of 'reactionaries' like Yiannopoulos.

'I see Milo as this embodiment of the awfulness you see over the past few years with the general tilt of millennial conservatism,' she told Vox.

'It's diverged from this traditional conservatism so much. You've seen it essentially become full of awfulness and all about attacking the left and not about actual principles.'

The video of Yiannopoulos, in which he is hear advocating for pederasty, was found by a 16-year-old Canadian girl, who alerted The Reagan Battalion. The conservative blog then re-tweeted it, enabling it to go viral and setting off the chain of events

As the fallout continued from the taped comments, Yiannopolous lost first his book deal (left) and then was told he was not welcome at conservative get-together CPAC, whose chair Matt Schlapp (right) said he was no longer welcome

Yiannopoulos wrote an 'apology' titled a 'note for idiots' on Sunday. He insisted he does not support pedophilia and mentioned sex criminals he had 'outed' during his career

'It has nothing to do with conservative ideology so much as it has with opposing the leftists, [social justice warriors], and so on and so forth.'

The girl, who was identified only as 'Julia,' describes herself as socially liberal yet right-leaning when it comes to economic and foreign policy matters.

As an avid follower of American politics, she said she was spurred to act when she read that Yiannopoulos was invited to address CPAC.

That's when she remembered hearing the infamous podcast from a few years ago in which Yiannapoulos is heard talking about the merits of underage boys having sex with older men.

She dug up the clip online and thought of ways to disseminate it.

Instead of simply posting it to her Twitter feed (which had few followers), she enlisted a conservative blog, The Reagan Battalion.

When the blog agreed to post the video, it went viral. The rest is history.

'I thought it would only get, like, 200 retweets,' Julia said. 'I had no idea that it would blow up to the extent that it did.'

She told Vox that she hopes her actions show anti-Trump conservatives that they can take action against alt-right figures that have taken over the movement.

'You shouldn't have to feel intimidated to stand up for what you believe in,' she said.

'Hopefully they'll realize that you can't keep being this reactionary movement - if you can even call it that. You can't just keep looking for enemies to attack and pointing the finger. Eventually, you have to stand up for something.'   

HOW MILO STARTED STORM

Video of the Breitbart editor taking part in an online discussion from summer 2016 were posted online by a Twitter account called the @ReaganBattalion - which is linked to a conservative blog. It said it was acting out of concern that he had been invited to CPAC later this week.

In the videos he said:

'This is a controversial view, I accept. But we get caught up in this whole child abuse thing even to the extent we are policing consensual relationships between consenting adults, such as grad students and professors at universities.

'The whole consent thing is not as black and white as people try and paint it.'

Yiannopoulos agreed that the age of consent was 'roughly' at the right age. 

He continued: 'There are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age. I would certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger.

'I think it particularly happens in the gay world, by the way. In many cases… actually, those relationships… this is one of the reasons I hate the left. This one-size-fits-all policing of culture. This arbitrary and oppressive idea of consent, which totally destroys, you know, the understanding that many of us have, of the complexities, subtleties and complicated nature of many relationships.

Milo Yiannopoulos claimed he was not defending pedophilia when he said some younger boys could benefit by coming involved in a consensual relationship with an older man. He has now been banned from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference

'People are messy and complex, particularly in the homosexual world. Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of 'coming of age' relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable rock where they can't speak to their parents.' 

Yiannopoulos said: 'Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13 years old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. 

'Pedophilia is an attraction to people who don't have functioning sex organs yet, who have not gone through puberty, who are too young to understand about the bodies. That is not what we are talking about.

'You don't understand what pedophilia is if you think I'm defending it, because I'm certainly not.' 

Yiannopoulos claimed some teenagers could find a relationship with an older man quite beneficial.

He added: 'In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older men, can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can save those young boys from desolation, suicide and drug addiction, all sorts of things, providing they're consensual.'    

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