Milo Yiannopoulos’s “Privilege Grant” was announced with great fanfare back in January. The alleged college scholarship program, designed to tweak PC sensibilities by offering money only to white males, was supposed to start offering scholarships this fall, providing 50 lucky white dudes $2500 each, for a total of $125,000 in its initial year, $25,000 of which would come from Milo himself.
Well, the school year is almost upon us, and … nothing. Not only has the fund failed to distribute any of the promised money; it hasn’t even set up an application form on its website.
Now YouTuber Margaret MacLennan, a self-described “basic monarchist and conservative” who was the original “director” of the alleged scholarship fund and who helped Milo raise money for it, is asking where the money went.
On Reddit, someone called enough__is___enough is flat out accusing Milo of taking the money and running, posting a detailed set of accusations in the EnoughTrumpSpam subreddit:
According to enough__is___enough, “the former director of the now defunct grant [says that] donations for the grant were routed into Milo’s business, Caligula Limited” — a business that has apparently since been dissolved. MacLennan — presumably the “former director” alluded to — Tweeted what appears to be the wire transfer instructions for donations, which suggest that the money was to go directly into Milo’s bank account.
Milo says the accusations in the Reddit post are “garbage,” as he put it in a Facebook comment today. On the Privilege Grant website he or one of his army of interns has put up a slightly more detailed response, claiming that, hey, he’s just running a little late with the whole “actually giving money out” thing. His excuse? He’s been TOO FAMOUS to get the grant pulled together.
“The initial flurry of interest in the Privilege Grant, and my skyrocketing media profile, left us behind on logistics,” he declares, without apology.
In an astonishing coincidence, the Privilege Grant web page also announced today that it had appointed
a new administrative lead for the Privilege Grant …
Now that the Privilege Grant has been staffed, donors, potential applicants and interested parties can expect monthly updates on the Privilege Grant’s website at https://privilegegrant.com/.
How strange that this happened totally by coincidence literally two days after people started asking questions publicly about the money! It’s all very Trumpian.
The same press release also claimed that “the Privilege Grant is in the process of applying for charity status with the U.S. government.”
And they’ve got a NEW SCHEDULE that they will totally be keeping to:
The current plan is for the Privilege Grant to run a pilot grant program for the Spring semester of the 2016-2017 school year, and then administer the full grant program for the 2017-2018 school year.
On the front page of the site, though, the Privilege Grant is still said to be on a schedule that would be possible only with the use of a time machine:
Applications will open in Spring 2016. Privilege Grants will be awarded in early Summer 2016 to be available for Fall 2016 enrollment.
It’s all very ethical.
H/T — Thanks to Margaret Pless (@idlediletante) of Internet Famous Angry Men, the first to alert me to this; I also sort of borrowed the headline from her.
EDIT: Added a few details about MacLennan.
Oh! MRAs really do believe that the only reason we’re feminist is to hurt men, rather than to help women (and also men in some ways). It’s like, so wrong he’s not even wrong…poor kiddo.
Stan Pines ( the man in the gif) > Milo
I’ll point it out again: You copy and pasted your screed about “oooo! feminism and marxism is scary and making the world worst” on an article about anti-feminist taking money away from men via capitalism. Your shit doesn’t make sense most time but this time for fucking real? Posting bullshit in the comments of an article that shows the exact opposite of your shit lies?
For fucking real?
Get some common sense, or at least fucking mix it up, mate.
Also, IP bans exist, can we get one here?
A fool and his money, my gran used to say, are soon parted.
Bye Terrance (anyone for making that the new “Bye Felicia”?
My bingo been updated yet again. Link in another comment
@Troll guy
That made me chuckle a bit, thank you. Sadly, aside from that one, you’re pretty boring, as has been stated above.
Here is the newest version
Terrence:
Phylum: Troll
Class: Derailicus
@Violet
Nitpicking here, but some of the bingo squares (mine in particular) aren’t exactly right. ‘Single quotes’ instead of the “standard double”, capitalization issues. I gave em to you that way, so it’s my B. It’s just, my pedantry is acting up. Ya mind fixing em?
I like that Terrance accurately noted that feminism is a big win for men, as well as for women.
@numerobis
You know what they say about stopped clocks.
Unfortunately, he failed horribly even at that. What ever is “advanced prostitution” supposed to mean ?
Not at all
Fixed, with an addition
@Violet
Thanks ever so
@John
Prostitution gets to level (age) 25 with a Whore Stone and it evolves. HP goes way up, and it gains the ability ‘Wallet Rape’
Pokemigtoe is dark…
If you’re so omnipresent, how come I never heard of you until you decided to darken our doorstep?
You’ve enlightened no one. You never will. Sorry, love.
Spending that much time in that many forums must make having a life very hard, Terrence. Maybe turning off the computer and getting a little fresh air once in a while would be a good thing. You could clear your head, comprehend the topic at hand better and write comments that actually make sense.
Seriously though, it’s almost adorable how hard you’re trying to “trigger” us. It’s almost as though you don’t know what a trigger actually is.
Or what toxic masculinity is. Which is doubly ironic that TiMarkErrance is claiming that his masculinity is toxic, while he’s coming in here claiming to “save men” from the vicious Straw Feminists who Live Inside TiMarkErrance’s Head, since Toxic Masculinity is actually the ways patriarchy is harmful to men.
And considering TiMarkErrance’s whole idea of “masculinity” is “everything not feminine” and “women are lesser than me, a man, but are also controlling men and stealing all our money!”, I would say that’s pretty damn damaging to men.
But, I suppose facts have never stopped TiMarkErrance from spewing sewage from his cake hole before like some kind of fucked-up rage sprinkler.
Nope, he’s just going to carry on and assume that what we mean when we say things is precisely what he thinks we mean, and, you know, not what we actually meant. Keep tilting your lance at those windmills, TiMarkErrance. You’ll chip the mortar on them someday…
TLDR Terrance:
*fapfapfapfapfapfapfap*
Hm… Anyone in the know about charity status vetting? Is there a chance they’d get it?
I’m not saying anybody deserved to be scammed (…necessarily), but when what you admire most in your right-wing celebrity is that they’re unapologetically self-interested and recreationally oppositional, you can’t be that surprised to find out that they’re not that fussed about your trust in them.
@numerobis Even better than that, @Terrance clearly thinks we could suffer no greater pain than to think we’ve helped men. NOOO, NOT THE SWORN ENEMY OF FEMINISM, 100% OF MALES!! Now how will I be able to sit on my couch all day and eat bon-bons/work all day and steal jobs from more qualified men/rear children I’m trapping a man with all day because childrearing is famously super effortless/avoid the totally relevant draft?!
I just realized that he actually mentioned the draft.
Dude, when did you last get drafted ?
TL; DR my “enlightenment” at his oh-SO-enlightened keyboard:
YAWWWWWWN.
@Sinkable John:
Sexbots? They so long for these, apparently. 😉
‘Less alimony = more sexbots’, Somfink like that…
@Sinkable John:
Never but he does like playing with his tin soldiers!
“Step right this way! Youse boys look like a bunch of smart young men!”
“Yeah?”
“Sure! Logic rational men.”
“You think?”
“Ab-sol-utely! Why, your masculine logical reason makes you much harder to trick than those dames with their emotions, right fellas?”
“Well, you have a point…”
“So since I know how clever you all are, it would be downright foolish of me to try and con youse, right?”
“That goes without saying.”
“Great. So when I offer youse all a fifty-one per cent stake in the Brooklyn Bridge, why, surely I have to be on the up-and-up?”
“Hell yeah!”
This was my exact reaction. Like… ever- and omni-present? How many hours must that take out of every day? How much effort and frothing must it take to keep up this kind of spewing? What would his life be if he had just used that time to learn how to build wooden ships?