Simon & Schuster has released the notes that Milo Yiannopoulos’ editor handed back to the alt-right poster boy after looking at the first finished manuscript for his book Dangerous.
Those notes were submitted in Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York on December 21 by Simon & Schsuter as an exhibit in response to Yiannopoulos’ $10 million lawsuit against the company for terminating his publishing deal.
Yiannopoulos was asked in the notes from his editor Mitchell Ives to get rid of some ethnic jokes, a Nazi analogy and tone down the constant praise for his own accomplishments throughout the text.
He was also ordered to delete a story in which he stated that Hillary and Bill Clinton were practicing Satanists and told that having sex with a black person does not mean a person cannot be racist.
Meanwhile, a memorandum of law in opposition to plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment that was submitted by the defendant reveals that Yiannopoulos was also asked to dial back the constant generalizations about gays and feminists.
‘In particular, Ivers noted that the “Why Establishment Gays Hate Me” chapter “needs a better central thesis than the notion that gay people should go back in the closet” and the feminist chapter needed a “stronger argument against feminism than saying that they are ugly and sexless and have cats,’ reads the court filing.
Lowkey dude: Milo Yiannopoulos (above in February) is battling Simon & Schuster in court after suing the publishing house for $10 million after they cancelled his book deal
No go: Four paragraphs into the first chapter Yiannopoulos is asked to ‘delete irrelevant and superfluous ethnic joke’ about cab drivers using curry as deodorant
It is just four paragraphs into the first chapter of the book that Yiannopoulos is asked to ‘delete irrelevant and superfluous ethnic joke.’
That is in response to a line in which he suggests that cab drivers use curry as deodorant.
Next up on the chopping block is a paragraph about the Clintons that seemed bound to cause a number of legal problems for the publisher.
‘Speaking of withchcraft, the Clintons have turned into such villains that the demons summoned through their “spirit-cooking” sessions take notes on them like it’s a master class in demonic behavior,’ read the manuscript.
‘The demons wonder how she has done it all in one lifetime.’
Ives, in one of the lengthier notes given to the author, wrote: “This entire paragraph is just reporting fake news. There was no blood, no semen, NO Satanism. Delete.’
A few pages later, Ives noted ‘letr’s not call South Africa “white”‘ in response to Yiannopoulos’ argument that celebrities only ever threaten to flee to overwhelmingly white countries.