Benny Johnson’s Selective Outrage

By Rob Redding

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2025, 11 a.m. — Conservative commentator Benny Johnson now says he is “duty bound” to sue Milo Yiannopoulos for claiming he slept with “boys” at political conferences. He invokes family, faith, and the courts. He asks his millions of followers to “pray for healing for some really sick and delusional people.” He promises that “the legal system is about justice.”

But the record tells another story.

When Saeed Jones, a Black writer and commentator, revealed on Bluesky in 2024 that he once made out with Johnson at a BuzzFeed holiday party, there was no lawsuit. There was no call for prayer. There was no righteous defense of family. Jones wrote, “I made out with Benny Johnson in an empty dressing room at BuzzFeed holiday party in 2013. It haunts me to this day.” The internet laughed, speculated, and moved on. Johnson stayed silent.

Now Milo Yiannopoulos, a white provocateur, makes his own explosive allegations on Tim Pool’s podcast. He says, “Everybody knows what went on with Benny Johnson in those lobbies and in those hotel rooms at SAS.” He insists Johnson’s wife was “crying drunk in the lobby three SASs in a row, about how her husband was upstairs with boys.” Suddenly Johnson is ready to unleash the lawyers.

The contrast is striking. The Black man’s words were absorbed into the rumor mill. They were not ignored, but they were not punished. The white man’s words trigger a full‑blown legal crusade.

This is not just about Benny Johnson’s family image. It is about who gets punished for saying what everyone already suspects, and who gets away with saying it first. It is about credibility, race, and the selective outrage that defines scandal in America.

Johnson may be “duty bound” to sue Milo Yiannopoulos. Yet he was not duty bound to sue Saeed Jones. The silence then and the fury now tell us everything we need to know.

(Rob Redding is the author of the forthcoming book Black Power in the Age of Artificial Supremacy Featuring Redding-Shim Kwet Yung out on Jan. 5, 2026. Redding is the No. 1 bestselling author of 17 books. He is the host of Redding News Review Unrestricted and creator of ReddingNewsReview.com. He is also an emerging visual artist, known for his piece “Black Power: Unapologetically Militant,” and he lives and teaches at two colleges in New York City).