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Twitter Polls are best used for things like figuring out what the best side is at Thanksgiving Dinner (stuffing) or how sick it would be if Dave Navaro were your father (hella sick). Twitter Polls are NOT best used for things relating to politics. Because the last election. Apparently everyones favorite USS Enterprise helmsman George Takei didnt get that memo.

Saturday saw the outspoken liberal taking to the microblogging platform with a question for his followers: Trump says the media is the true enemy of the American people. So lets take a poll. Who do you think does MORE HARM to the American people? He provided two possible responses: The un-fair news media or President Donald Trump.

After a few hours and upwards of 70,000 votes, the results were (pretty surprisingly) neck-and-neck.

Displeased with those results (and what liberal wouldnt be?), Takei promptly deleted the post altogether. His followers took notice, and, jeez, they werent happy.

And just like Vanessa L. Williams, we went and saved the best for last:

Dont worry, this doesnt end there.

Takei would then try to put more of his foot in his mouth by tweeting the following:

Sour grapes, sour grapes! In perhaps the smartest move in this odd social media chess game, Takei would delete this gem of Internet wisdom not long after it was posted.

Live long and prosper, Mr. Sulu; those alt-right, virgin trolls are coming for blood.

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One of the enduring mysteries of the American media is their inability to see whats wrong with referring to theantisemitic, white supremacist, hateful, bigoted, racist, homophobic alt-right movement, whose so-called poster boy is a vocal gay Jew [with] a black boyfriend, British journalist and senior editor for Breitbart News Milo Yiannopoulos said Friday night.

Yiannopoulos, the flamboyant and provocative author of Dangerous wearing eyeliner and an elaborate pearl necklace was sparringwith his liberal host and co-panelists on the YouTube Overtime segment of HBOs Real Time With Bill Maher, who flew into a rage at his suggestionthat transgender people suffer from a disorder and that homosexuals do, too, since they cannot procreate naturally.

Yiannopoulos, a catholic with a Greek father, British mother and Jewish maternal grandmother, made his comment about the media after being asked by terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, Are you the real, true face of the alt-right? Because I thought the Nazis were in there. How do they take you on board?

February 19, 2017 4:13 pm

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TO THE EDITOR:

On Feb. 13, Chris Watson wrote to the DTH that there is a small, but growing minority on campus. This supposed minority lurks everywhere, under many names, and in all departments. We exist, Mr. Watson assures his readers, as if the banal question of their existence was ever in doubt.

We are told that the specter of social justice haunts our classrooms, making it impossible for students to address content because we are too busy paying attention to the trivial matters of race or ethnicity.

Furthermore, radical leftists, Marxists, and anarchists are to blame for this. Please, Mr. Watson, if you see any of these so-called radicals on campus, do let me know. I cant seem to find them anywhere. More important, however, are the tired platitudes deployed. We hear about leftist violence, censorship of free speech and Americas courageous past. These claims are unsubstantiated.

So here is the push back. The violence on the working class is a result of capital and corporations run amok. The alt-right president is the most powerfully heard voice in the world hardly a lack of free speech. Americas history is the history of slavery, abuse, dispossession and state violence against the most vulnerable.

Id like to remind the alt-right minority how hard it is to focus on content when youre worried about your visa status, or routine traffic stops resulting in abuse or death or the threat of deportation from ICE patrols in your neighborhood.

Heres to an America without fear.

Micah Hughes

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Religious studies

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NEW YORK While conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos insulted comics Lena Dunham, Leslie Jones, Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, his appearance on HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher was relatively tame at least until the television cameras were turned off.

It was later, during an online-only Overtime segment of Mahers Friday night show, that two of Mahers three panelists hurled expletives at the Breitbart News senior editor.

Mahers booking of Yiannopoulos, author of the upcoming book Dangerous, drew attention earlier this week when journalist Jeremy Scahill backed out of the show because of his hateful diatribes. The conservative gadfly has become a lightning rod; his planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was canceled earlier this month when protests erupted.

Maher, a free speech advocate, told Yiannopoulos that he thought he was colossally wrong on most issues, but if I barred everyone from the show who I thought was colossally wrong, I would be talking to myself.

Yiannopoulos called Maher his favorite liberal.

The interview segment featured few harsh exchanges with Maher, and Yiannopoulos was not included in a panel discussion that featured comedian Larry Wilmore, author and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance and former U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican. But online, Yiannopoulos joined the other three to answer questions from viewers.

The starting-off point was when Yiannopoulos defended his criticism of a transgender person and saying, without offering evidence, that transgender people were involved in a disproportionate number of sex crimes. Wilborn objected, saying that for a long time, homosexuality was considered a disorder.

Maybe it is, said Yiannopoulos, who is gay.

Maybe you are, Wilborn said, But most homosexuals are not.

Nance observed that Yiannopoulos seemed confused about who and what he was. When Maher tried to referee, Yiannopoulos said that he always seemed to have awful people on the show, who are so stupid.

Thats when Wilmore exploded, telling Yiannopoulos to go (bleep) yourself.

When the oddity of an openly gay man being seen as a leader of the alt-right movement was pointed out, Yiannopoulos said that the worst people on the far left and far right all hate me.

Retorted Wilmore: I think youre leaving out a lot of people.

Nance added an expletive when the Breitbart editor said he had no problems with the issue of President Donald Trump and ties to Russian, profanely dismissing him because he was not an American. Yiannopoulos is British.

It stopped there. Kingston declined a chance to be the third panelist to swear at Yiannopoulos.

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