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Self-proclaimed 'free speech activist' Milo Yiannopoulos has laid down the gauntlet to detractors ahead of his controversial speaking tour.
The 32-year-old ex-Breitbart journalist called out feminist writer Clementine Ford, saying he wants to debate her and Australia's best left wing activists.
Yiannopoulos told Mark Latham he plans to make people laugh and make people angry during his Troll Academy Tour in December.
You have a feminist over there named after a fruit and I can't remember her name, oh, Clementine, Clementine Ford,' Yiannopoulos said on Mark Latham's Outsiders.
'I want to come over and show these people that banning and petitions are not the way, and discussions and dialogue are the way.
'I would love to debate her [Ms Ford] ... I want to see the best Australia has to offer in terms of left wing activists, campus crazies ... to demonstrate to Australians at home you don't need to be scared and cowed into agreeing with these speech codes.'
Yiannopoulos told Mr Latham left wing bullies are 'destroying culture', 'poisoning politics' and trying to shut down free speech.
Ms Ford has lashed out at Yiannopoulos on social media in the past, calling him 'Milo Whinopoulos' and saying he 'can go f*** himself'.
She was not amused at Yiannopoulos pronouncing her name as 'Clementeen' saying, 'It's tyne, like Milo has a tyne-y brain' after he called her a 'professional mischief-maker' who dishes out 'appalling abuse' in a Sky News interview in 2016.
Yiannopoulos pronounced her name the same way on Wednesday night.
Ms Ford has also described Yiannopoulos as a 'liar' and as a threat to women, girls and transgender people and suggested Trump voters would not buy his book because they cannot read.
Yiannopoulos was an outspoken supporter of US President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, and insists on calling him 'daddy'.
While working for Breitbart he wrote a column about the alt-right, a movement from which he has now distanced himself.
When asked about the alt-right by Mr Latham, Yiannopoulos said it has become synonymous with neo-Nazis and he no longer wants to be associated with it.
Dubbed a 'right-wing troll', Yiannopoulos made a name for himself by criticising feminism, Islam and political correctness.
He gained further notoriety after being banned from Twitter when he was blamed for a campaign of abuse directed at Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones.
Yiannopoulos resigned as Breitbart senior editor in February 2017 after comments appearing to condone paedophilia provoked widespread outrage.
His Troll Academy Tour will hit Adelaide, Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast in December.
A petition demanding Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton deny Yiannopoulos a visa has attracted 993 signatures so far.
The self-proclaimed 'most controversial man in the world' called the campaign to stop him 'very lacklustre and disappointing and ineffective,' News.com.au reported.
'I'm almost embarrassed to have such little opposition,' he said.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Clementine Ford for comment.
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