"So who are the Proud Boys and their
banned-from-Twitter leader? Created by McInnes, a “
provocateur” and one of the original co-founders of Vice Media, who has described himself as “
an old punk from Canada”and turned right in 2008 (the same year he left Vice over “creative differences”), the Proud Boys are a strange amalgamation of a men’s rights organization, a fight club and what some may see as a hate group — one that loves Donald Trump, hates Muslims (and Jews and trans people), but permits nonwhite membership.
The group has a magazine where members who win fights are
celebrated with the slogan, “They ****ed around. They found out.” And in the age of concerns about “civility” and worries about political violence surrounding the upcoming midterms, the Proud Boys —
and McInnes, who believes
violence is “a really effective way to solve problems” — are more interested in punching “******s.”
As Jared Holt at Right Wing Watch told me, “The Proud Boys have been the right wing’s enforcers in the streets against those who dissent against them.”
From Vice Media to “cuckmercials”
In 1994, McInnes, alongside Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi, launched Voice of Montreal, which later became Vice Media. McInnes was already the voice of a particular strain of right-wingerdomwithin the company, telling
the New York Times, ‘’I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of.”
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17978358/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-manhattan-gop-violence
These are the people fighting with Antifa on the streets. And they are as much anti-Semitic as they are anti-Islamist. David Duke is a fan...
"His shift to the far right also included espousing anti-Muslim sentiments (“the Muslim world is filled with shoeless, toothless, inbred, hill-dwelling, rifle-toting, sodomy-prone men”) and an embrace of anti-Semitismand anti-Israel sentiments, including a video he made for the far-right
Canadian outlet Rebel Media initially
called “10 Things I Hate about Jews” (or as he would later
tweet, “10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT THE GODDAMN MOTHER****ING JEWS!”). He’s also
argued that historically, perhaps Jews “were ostracized for a good reason.”
These videos, and
some of his others, earned him a host of new fans, including David Duke. And though McInnes has attempted to push aside accusations of racism (which he argues
doesn’t exist), he has written for both
VDare and American Renaissance, the latter the
publication of the “race-realist, white advocacy organization” New Century Foundation.
