The millennial mascot of the alt-right was forced into a confusing set of contradictions Thursday on live television. 

Breitbart News writer Milo Yiannopoulos was interviewed by Channel 4 News in the UK about his past statements that women offended online should just "log off" the internet and his assertion that, actually, Islam is the real culprit of rape culture.

When journalist Cathy Newman challenged him on the empty and unsettling claim that Muslim immigration is somehow linked to rape culture, Yiannopoulos retorted with just, "Am I wrong about that?" 

And, rather than defending his words, he mostly tried to laugh them off. Newman wasn't having it.

"Are we supposed to just soak that up and take it all as just one big joke?" she asked him.

"You're supposed to treat it as it's intended and not wrench it from context," he replied, not explaining what the context was.

Then, he switched strategies. He went back to calling it all a joke, or better yet, a "provocation."

"You know perfectly well that it is a provocation designed to make people think and perhaps to make them laugh."

Hmm ... well, this is where it gets interesting.

Newman then asked Yiannopoulos about his boss, alt-right extremist and Breitbart chairman-turned-chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, who led Breibart as it grew increasingly radical with headlines like, "Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy."

"What does it mean that someone who delighted in offending people, who delighted in having a laugh at Muslims and women, is now at the center of power?" Newman asked Yiannopoulos.

"I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency — I think that needs to come to an end," Yiannopoulos responded.

Bannon shouldn't be worried about people's feelings, he added. And why is that?

"Because America has been ruled for 30 years by people who are too worried about what other people feel, not what other people think. And too worried about feelings versus facts," he continued, saying "social justice warriors," feminists and the Black Lives Matter movement are "preoccupied with feelings first and facts later."

"They spread conspiracy theories and propaganda about the wage gap and campus rape culture," he said with a cringe. "This stuff isn't real."

Well, actually, those things are real. Unfortunately, research has shown that at least one in five female college students has faced sexual abuse or assault (and many cases go unreported). And the wage gap is very real, with women earning consistently less — from 58 cents to 87 cents for every dollar earned by a man.

Challenged again by Newman, he followed up the non-facts with this:

"I care about facts," he said. "I don't care about your feelings."

"Just telling the facts are no longer enough."

And then things got more confusing. Newman brought up another past statement of his, in which he said we're living in a "post-fact universe."

And then Yiannopoulos was like, actually, facts aren't everything.

"Just telling the facts are no longer enough," he responded. "You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore."

What a tangled web we weave.