Gavin McInnes Whines His Fellow Rich Neighbors Don't Like Him

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-mcinnes-whines-his-fellow-rich-neighbors-dont-like-him

The self-styled conservative punk lives in a liberal New York enclave where he says he’s the victim of everyone from soccer moms to George Soros.

Online, Gavin McInnes is the gung-ho, ex-punk leader of a hate group who rails against liberal decadence. At home in his wealthy New York suburb, he’s upset that liberals won’t accept him.

“I blame [George] Soros for all of this,” McInnes said during a September broadcast of Infowars, on which he bemoaned what he claimed was his supposedly degraded social status. “Soros is terrorizing me and trying to shut down my fraternal club, the Proud Boys. And he’s paying people to mess with my life, and spread these lies about me, spread fake news.”

McInnes, 48, built his profile as a New York media provocateur. As co-founder of the media company Vice, he was an architect of the ironic hipster culture of the early 2000s, a scene that sometimes gave him cover for racist remarks that he defended as jokes before leaving Vice in 2008. Years later, in 2016, he began a new chapter in life: founding the Proud Boys—a violent, ultranationalist men’s club—and selling his $2.5 million Brooklyn penthouse to buy a home in Larchmont, a tony Westchester County town 20 miles north of the city.

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More than anything, the Proud Boys are anti-leftist. Members talk openly of beating leftist opponents (“commies” and “antifa”) in the streets. Proud Boys at a violent Portland, Oregon, rally wore T-shirts valorizing Augusto Pinochet, a Chilean dictator who murdered tortured and murdered leftist political foes. When a prominent Twitter user made videos mocking the Proud Boys, a member showed up at his home. Members have also variously expressed sexist, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBT views. The ideological flexibility gives some space for members of color; the aforementioned Proud Boy who attended Unite the Right also runs with a primarily Latino skinhead crew. It also gives plausible deniability for figures like McInnes, who constantly toe the line of acceptable hatred.

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. No, your neighbors just don't want a racist pig in their neighborhood.

[violetpastille]

2. Hey McInnes! I'll swap houses!

There are plenty of tattooed, bearded, self-important Hipsters for Trump in my neighborhood. I"m kind of surprised you're not already here?

#nobacksies.

[Raster]

3. Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes: 'We Need More Violence from the Trump People'

https://gritpost.com/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-more-violence/

By: Katelyn Kivel
Justice | October 18, 2018

“Fighting solves everything. We need more violence from the Trump people. Trump supporters: choke a motherfucker. Choke a bitch. Choke a tranny. Get your fingers around the windpipe.”

Those are the words of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.

“If some guy with a slightly punk demeanor comes up to you and says ‘Hey are you Sal? Are you pro-Trump?’ Choke him. Trust your instincts, don’t listen to what he has to say, choke him.”

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Take McInnes’s quotes about choking. He is calling clearly for a measurable and specific crime to occur. He is making a statement to his followers that they ought to take an unlawful action and commit violence against “a motherfucker”, “a bitch” or “a tranny”.

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McInnes is speaking to people known for a tendency of violent action and is telling them to choke people. He is both advocating for imminent illegal activity and doing so with a reasonable certainty that that violence will actually transpire.

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[spooky3]

4. Hey, McInnes, give Dershowitz a call! He's looking for friends too, since he stopped

getting invitations to his neighbors' parties.

[MiniMe]

5. You didn't include the part where he got into an argument with a neighbor and kicked his dog

That would do it for me. Don't kick animals!

[Raster]

6. Yeah, I saw that part too, and that also does it for me...

...I can't stand the guy. Duplicitous and smarmy in a "my hipster shit don't stink" kind of way. Quite frankly, I doubt much of the crap that comes out of his mouth. He's a social demagogue that preys on the lesser intellectual for power and profit.

[Blue_true]

7. I don't know much about him other than his racist shit.

How is he well off financially?

[Raster]

8. He was one of the co-founders of VICE media, which he sold...

...he bought a Jersey "penthouse" for $1.2 mil and sold it for twice that amount. He frequently publishes magazine articles. *I SUSPECT* that this whole Proud Boys thing is a gimmick to embellish his value.