The Right is in a bit of a bind. After spending months attacking the “intolerant left” for purportedly abridging right-wing troll Milo Yiannopoulos’s right to free speech, the American Conservative Union has now disinvited him from its annual CPAC conference because of a video dredged up that appears to show him defending sex between grown men and thirteen-year-old boys.

“We continue to believe that CPAC is a constructive forum for controversies and disagreements among conservatives,” ACU President Matt Schlapp said. “However there is no disagreement among our attendees on the evils of sexual abuse of children.”

A day later, asked about his position on the “alt-right” more broadly — the loose coalition of white supremacists, misogynists, and others that has gained prominence since Donald Trump’s ascent — Schlapp clarified that “racism has no voice within the conservative movement,” and that the alt-right doesn’t “have anything to do with the conservative movement.” “We won’t endorse it, and we won’t rationalize it,” he concluded.