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We continued to report on the violence that's come to define the hate group Proud Boys in 2018, who shouted anti-immigrant & homophobic slurs as they beat up counter-protesters outside an event in New York in October. #SPLCWinterReadingList bit.ly/2PRG94E
Following the attack, only 6 New York City officials spoke out about the Proud Boys' violence. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
The Proud Boys' founder Gavin McInnes has used an anti-LGBTQ+ slur for years. That slur was hurled by the Proud Boys and skinheads who beat up counter-protesters earlier this year. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…
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“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Rep. Steve King said last week.

To be clear, white supremacy and white nationalism have always been “offensive.” nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/…
This was far from King's first time signaling support for white nationalism. He made white nationalist comments on CNN less than a year ago; praised an anti-Muslim figure convicted of hate speech; retweeted a neo-Nazi; and called Mexican immigrants “dirt.” cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
Rep. King’s tenure in office has been marked by racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, bigoted words and deeds. But he’s not the only one. Just 24 hours before King was kicked off his committees, Trump put out a blatantly racist tweet about Native Americans. splcenter.org/hate-white-hou…
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We’re here at the @Ctr4CHR joining the @NAACPGA, @NAACPAtlanta, @NationalSCLC and several other orgs ahead of the Georgia General Assembly calling for necessary, long overdue change—that begins with the takedown of Confederate monuments throughout the South.
There are 159 counties in Georgia. Ninety-two of them have Confederate monuments.
“This is a momentous occasion, but this is just the beginning.

“We cannot have a united country until we remove the symbols that divided this country.” —First Vice President of @NAACPAtlanta Gerald Griggs
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President Trump spoke tonight about "illegal aliens," but no human is illegal. #NoBanNoWall splcenter.org/news/2018/12/1…
It’s a myth that immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than native born Americans. It’s a myth that they hurt the economy. For the president to spread these fears tonight is not only inaccurate, but immoral. tolerance.org/magazine/sprin…
There is a humanitarian crisis at the border — one that this president’s relentless war on asylum seekers and his refusal to comply with the law have manufactured. #PresidentialAddress splcenter.org/news/2019/01/0…
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According to Gavin McInnes' account of founding the Proud Boys, America constituted an exclusive "Nation of Clubs" before feminists like Gloria Steinem disrupted the hierarchy where society assumed that white culture, militant jingoism, and restrictive gender roles were the norm.
McInnes purposely makes the distinction btw. cultural superiority and racial superiority ambiguous; here he euphemistically calls white supremacists like Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor "western chauvinists" and "nationalists". He refers to the Proud Boys under the same terms.
When America was a "Nation of Clubs", men's organizations like "The Know Nothings" existed, which McInnes favorably mentions. "The Know Nothings" brutalized immigrants and lobbied for immigrant bans and quotas.
smithsonianmag.com/history/immigr…
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Will Sommer
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I’m covering today’s far-right rally in Philadelphia. Some Proud Boys — and plenty of antifa with Gritty signs — are expected to show.
The far right rally doesn’t even start for an hour and one counter protester has already been arrested. Philly Police are using their bikes to push people across the street.
Gritty has made an appearance at the Proud Boys protest
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Nadine van der Velde
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THREAD: A handy NOVEMBER 6th GUIDE to GOP bigots, Islamophobes, Homophobes, Nationalists, Self-described Nazis and White Supremacist candidates all across the country and their DEM challengers.

#VOTEBLUE #VoteDemocrats
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FL GOV Rick Scott is a cog in the bigoted Florida GOP machine. Here he is with Enrique Tarrio the Miami leader of hate group Proud Boys...

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"Maybe nobody loved you when you were young
Maybe, boy, when you cry, nobody ever comes"
"proud boys" is more like "self-hating peter pans"
seriously how many of these people still get money from their parents?
If they ARE on the parental dole, then do Mommy & Daddy know what they've been getting up to?
What do Mom & Dad think?
Are Mommy & Daddy #proud of their little self-hating homophobic/homoerotic incel peter-pan sons?
Or will they cut off the money spigot, reprimand, and disown?
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Caroline O.
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Thank you, @NewYorkStateAG. And to anyone who was in NYC last night when the Proud Boys violently attacked individual citizens while yelling homophobic slurs (or anyone who can help identify the attackers in the video, which I'll post below), please make use of this phone #... 👇
Video (credit: @sandibachom) of the Proud Boys violently attacking individual citizens on the streets of NYC last night. All while yelling homophobic slurs, which should classify this as a hate crime.

If you can identify any of the assailants, NY AG wants tips: 1-800-577-TIPS.
Worth noting that Gavin McInnes is a UK-born Canadian who crossed international borders to start a violent extremist group in the United States. Seems like that might be relevant to someone like @NYPDTips but what do I know.
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David Neiwert
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1) I’m amused to see @JonahNRO scrambling for higher ground amid the insane tide of nutjob conspiracism that has overtaken the Right in the age of Trump. Amused, because Goldberg had no small role in conjuring up that tide, and still does. Thread follows.

nationalreview.com/g-file/nationa…
2) In addition to his role as editor of National Review’s online presence, Goldberg also has been living, ideologically speaking, from his book written a decade ago, ‘Liberal Fascism.’ I had a brief to-and-fro with him regarding its veracity at the time:

dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/libera…
3) I also organized a group of historians who actually specialize in fascism and put their essays together in a project at History News Network, to which Goldberg also responded (see links to all pieces at bottom of this intro):

historynewsnetwork.org/article/122469
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