Yiannopoulos’ book is hardly ‘ Dangerous’

Litany of why ( fill in the blank) hates him grows monotonous

Oh, Milo. You’ve done the impossible. Written a book that’s largely … boring.

Booted by major publishing house Simon & Schuster, controversial right- wing provocateur and incendiary quipster Milo Yiannopoulos now has selfpublished his socalled Dangerous manifesto ( Dangerous Books, 288 pp., eeEE out of four).

Simon & Schuster, already under fire for signing a “hate speech” book deal with the British bad boy and self- proclaimed “Dangerous Faggot,” unceremoniously dumped Yiannopoulos in February after a podcast emerged in which he seemed to condone sex between men and boys. He resigned from Breitbart News amid the uproar.

He relives this unpleasant episode right off the bat, bashing S& S and assuring his “enemies” that he has not been “vanquished.” But if you’re looking for clarity, good luck. He says he was the “victim of sexual abuse” ( he had what apparently was consensual sex with a priest when he was 13) while refusing to be a victim, because, you know, he loathes the victim culture. But he does say: “I do not condone, in any way, pedophilia.”

Anyway, a look at the table of contents seems promising, whether you love or hate the guy, although judging by his chapter headings, just about everybody hates him. (“Why the Progressive Left Hates Me,” “Why the AltRight Hates Me,” “Why Twitter Hates Me,” “Why Feminists Hate Me,” “Why the Media Hates Me,” “Why Black Lives Matter Hates Me,” “Why Muslims Hate Me.”)

Yes, Yiannopoulos can be very funny, in that flamboyant, bitchy, post- Oscar Wilde manner he laments is going the way of the closet. ( See “Why Establishment Gays Hate Me.”)

When he’s preening about how good- looking he is and boasting about his “massive” ego, he’s al- most endearing in a little- boy- lost kind of way. But too often he tosses wit aside for insipid earnestness: He wants Dangerous to be taken seriously as a how- to politically incorrect “textbook” for his college fan boys.

He throws around statistics and name- drops historical figures ( Marx, Nietzsche, Thomas Aquinas) like he’s trying for an A on a term paper. The rest of the time he rehashes old feuds ( Leslie Jones, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer) and justifies his farright political views about “ugly” women, fat people, Muslim migrants, black criminals and the “fake news” mainstream media.

Same old Milo, practicing a brand of free speech that’s a license to offend and demean. # Sad, even if one agrees that today’s babyfied, “safe space” campuses are just as loony and dangerous on the opposite extreme.

If there’s a bright spot here, it’s Yiannopoulos’ adoration for fellow Internet troll ( his words) Trump. The English expat is hilarious on the subject of the American president he worships and calls “Daddy.”

Trump, Yiannopoulos writes, is a “fabulously camp cultural figure. He’s the drag queen president! It’s easy to see why so may gays I know secretly adore him. All that pizzazz and bluster!”

Now, 288 pages on that amusing topic might even land him a legit publisher and a callback from Bill Maher.

He could title it: My Big ‘ Daddy’ Issues.