That was the online-only afterhours part of the show...not the broadcast. He didn't have the big audience lapping it up for all its crapulence like he did during the main show when Maher was fluffing his ego. And because it wasn't the main show...he had his guard down a bit. Maher had his guard down a bit and wasn't as quick to "moderate" by talking over the other panelists. And the conservative white dude on the panel had his guard down a bit and couldn't shout some irrelevant side conversation over the exchange to make sure what was being said was lost in the din. Door wide open...and both Wilmore and the other black panelist (the CIA/intel guy) walked through it and got a punch off.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑23 Feb 2017, 5:47pmI agree. The problem was that the shithead had an audience when it happened. Anything that happens with an audience for these people is good for them because it ends up validating that they have a legitimacy, even meriting being told off in public. Telling them to go fuck themselves is done outside the platform, where there is no mass audience. Refusing to participate is the right strategy. Liberals and even Leftists don't get that the usual rules do not apply, that Nazis are not concerned with normal manners and respectability and being shamed, so you can't beat them that way. Don't fucking well grant them legitimacy by inviting them into a public forum as if it's a policy difference being debated. They loathe democracy so why let democratic exchange empower them?
Was it a knockout blow? Of course not. But it was a stark contrast to the coronation that Maher was serving up for him in the broadcast portion, and he was momentarily stunned. Further, what provoked the retaliation was that rant of his about trans ID-as-psychopathy, and the counterpoint that all marginalized groups were slimed with that same mental defectiveness declaration...including gays. The point Wilmore was trying to muscle through is that the messaging was ever-so portable to any era's marginalized whipping-group du jour. His point managed to stand because he managed to distract and temporarily stun the troll before the feces-cannon got emptied and his point was completely forgotten. Milo AND Maher would've been ready for that preemptively during the broadcast. They were a step slow and not ready for it on the after-show.
Why is this significant? Because that same line of discussion Milo got confronted with here is exactly the subject he hoisted his own petard on 48 hours later. He was playing aggressive offense, throwing around more of those compare/contrast ID-as-psychopathy scenarios around, went way out on a limb with one of those comparisons...and the limb snapped. Career over, and all the alt-right dark money (like Breitbart's silent billionare owner) bankrolling him vanished. Why'd he take such an outsized risk? Because he got caught in a weak spot on the very same subject just a couple days earlier...and only for the grace of it being Internet-only bonus footage did he dodge a bullet. Overcompensation time to cover up that little slip, and so in his very next public appearance he comes out trying way too hard to cause a blush...didn't self-edit the schtick with his usual amount of thoroughness to minimize self-injury potential...and impaled himself.
Did one event directly cause the other? Only Milo knows for sure what sequence of events went on in his own head. But there most certainly is some correlation between getting nicked on the soft underbelly one night then going doubly reckless on the same subject in the very next public appearance. He didn't have any need to up the ante. Nor was his id so out-of-control that a little fame made implosion inevitable; everything Milo does is tactical and well-coordinated in message with where the alt-right money flows. Maher's softball treatment on the broadcast was just a red carpet for him to say the same things he'd always said. More and louder...sure. Edgier?...no, he had no tactical reason whatsoever to take an off-balance home-run swing on a taboo that risky to his own backers. His endgame is fascist rule, not Andy Kaufman. There would've been plenty of time to take it up a notch. Not on his very next public appearance when he had just clinched this week as the best week of his life as a money-maker and newsmaker and was just waiting for the first really big checks to clear. So why was he so tactically inclined to take that enormous a risk?
A vulnerability was exposed, it was gnawing on him...and he was in a sloppy and distracted state-of-mind. And it induced an unforced error. The worst kind of unforced error imaginable. I am fairly confident that the risk taken wouldn't have been quite so brazen with consequences quite so total had it not been gnawing at him that The Black Guy the other night landed a punch on him. Landed a punch by NOT kowtowing to the troll's rules of asynchronous assumption of decorum that doesn't actually exist. It doesn't take a knock-out blow because the bullying Nazi's assumption of self-regulating one-sided decorum is built on a house of cards. They aren't prepared when one of their marks doesn't conform to that norm, as there's no Plan B for fighting where they have punch on-level instead of solely punching down. So they end up becoming far more liable to crap their own pants in a mad scramble to find some new play-on-norms from which to launch asynchronous social warfare. With Milo it was simply a far more spectacular display of combustible sharts shooting through every orifice...not any kind of surprising that he couldn't think on his feet half as well as he thought he could. Bullies can never think well on their feet when they're knocked off-balance and have to scramble.
This is how Nazi Punchers succeed at punching Nazis; they get over the mental fake-out of phony decorum and quickly figure out that Nazis have no clue how to take a punch.
