Gavin McInnes

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Gavin McInnes (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and far-right political commentator known for his advocacy of violence against political opponents.

McInnes, a born in Hitchin, England, immigrated to Canada at a young age before heading to America to pursue his political dreams.

He holds both British and British citizenship.

He is the co-founder of Vice Media and Vice magazine and the host of Get Off My Lawn, formerly on Conservative Review Television.

He is a contributor to Taki's Magazine and a former reporter to The Rebel Media, and he appeared on Fox News and TheBlaze as a leading figure in hipster culture when at Vice, being dubbed the "godfather" of hipsterdom.

Since leaving the company in 2008, he became well-known for his far-right political views.

He is the maker of the Proud Boys, a neo-fascist men's group classified as a "general hate" group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

McInnes has ruled out this classification, saying that the group is "not an extremist group and [does] not have links with white nationalist organisations or hate speech."

Early life

Gavin Miles McInnes was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, the son of Scottish parents James McInnes, who later became Vice President of Operations at Gallium Visual Systems Inc. – a Canadian defence company – and Loraine McInnes, a retired business teacher. When McInnes was four years old, his family immigrated to Canada, settling in Ottawa, Ontario. He attended Earl of March Secondary School in Ottawa. McInnes, a teen, was a member of Anal Chinook, an Ottawa punk band. He graduated from Carleton University.

Personal life

McInnes was on a green card in the United States. Emily Jendrisak, the daughter of Native American activist Christine Whiterabbit Jendrisak who describes herself as a liberal Democrat, married her in 2005. McInnes spoke about his wife's ethnicity and their children together, saying, "I've made my reservations about Indians very straightforward." I like them. I actually like them so much that I made three of them." They live in Larchmont, New York.

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Career

Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi co-founded Vice in 1994. The magazine was launched as the Voice of Montreal with government support. The founders' intention was to provide both work and a social service. When the editors wanted to break up with Alix Laurent, they bought him out and changed the name to Vice in 1996. In the late 1990s, Richard Szalwinski, a Canadian software millionaire, purchased the magazine and relocated the operation to New York City.

By WNBC, McInnes was referred to as the "godfather" of hipsterdom and as "one of hipsterdom's top designers" by AdBusters during his tenure. He occasionally contributed articles to Vice, including "The VICE Guide to Happiness" and "The VICE Guide to Picking Up Chicks," as co-authored two Vice books: Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs, Rock and Roll, and Vice Dos and Don'ts: ten years of VICE Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques.

McInnes said in a New York Times interview in 2002 that he was delighted that most Williamsburg hipsters were white. McInnes later wrote to Gawker that the interview was conducted as a prank intended to ridicule "baby boomer media like The Times." Vice apologized for McInnes' remarks after being the object of a black reader's letter-writing contest. McInnes' political views were outlined by the Times in a 2003 New York Times article about Vice magazine; "closer to a white supremacist's."

In 2006, he appeared in The Vice Guide to Travel with actor and comedian David Cross in China. He left Vice in 2008 due to "creative gaps," he said. McInnes' 2013 interview with The New Yorker, he explained that his break with Vice was due to the increasing vigour of corporate ads on Vice's pages, adding that "marketing and editorial being enemies had been the company plan."

McInnes' website, StreetCarnage.com, was launched in 2008. He also co-founded Rooster, where he worked as creative director.

In Season 3 of the Canadian reality television show Kenny vs. Spenceny as a judge, McInnes appeared in the "Who is Cooler?" series. The episode was a hit on television. In the short-lived Aqua Teen Hunger Force spin-off Soul Quest Overdrive, McInnes was approached by Adult Swim and asked to play as part of Mick, an anthropomorphic Scottish soccer ball. Six episodes of Soul Quest Overdrive were ordered after losing a 2010 pilot competition to Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge, with four of them airing in Adult Swim's 4 AM DVR Theater block on May 25, 2011 before quickly being cancelled. McInnes smacked the show's demise on the other cast members (Kristen Schaal, David Cross, and H. Jon Benjamin) for not being "as funny" as him.

McInnes wrote How to Piss in Public in 2012. He produced The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants, a film about his stay as an occasional stand-up comedian in 2013. He faked a serious car accident in the film. McInnes appeared in the independent film How to Be a Man, which premiered at Sundance next weekend. He has appeared in several films including Soul Quest Overdrive (2010), Creative Control (2015), and One More Time (2015).

Following the publication of an essay on transphobia that caused a call to boycott the company, McInnes was asked to take an indefinite leave of absence as chief creative officer of Rooster in August 2014. Rooster released a statement in response, including: "We are extremely dissatisfied with his behavior and have requested that he take a leave of absence while we determine the most appropriate course of action."

Anthony Cumia, a broadcaster from San Francisco, revealed in June that McInnes would host a show on his website, thus ending the Free Speech podcast, which he had started in March. On June 15, the Gavin McInnes Show premiered on Compound Media. McInnes is a former contributor to The Rebel Media and a former contributor to conspiracy theorist media site Infowars' The Alex Jones Exhibition, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and The Sean Hannity Exhibition are among the exhibits on the Wall Street website. On his radio show, McInnes referred to Jada Pinkett Smith as a "monkey actress."

McInnes left Rebel Media in August 2017, announcing that he would be "a multi-media Howard Stern Stern–meets–Tucker Carlson." He joined CRTV, a Conservative Review-funded online television network. Get Off My Lawn's debut episode on September 22, 2017 aired on September 22nd, 2017.

McInnes' Twitter account, as well as the Proud Boys account, was permanently barred from Twitter on August 10, 2018, due to their laws against violent extremist organisations. The suspension was ahead of the unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the small Unite the Right 2 Washington march in August 2018, which the Proud Boys attended.

McInnes was involved in a reenactment of socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma's assassination by Otoya Yamachi at the Metropolitan Republican Club on October 12th. After a leftist protester threw a plastic bottle at them, a group of Proud Boys was caught on tape beating a protester outside the venue.

McInnes said on Monday, "this is absolutely a legal act, and it is completely about reducing sentencing," shortly after news broke that the FBI had reportedly classified the Proud Boys as an extremist group with links to white nationalists, and that removing him from the courtroom would help the nine members convicted of the October incidents, "it is 100% a procedural gesture, and it is entirely about lowering sentencing." The FBI's Oregon office's Special Agent in Charge of the entire group said it had not intended to label the entire group as "extremist," only to mention the potential danger faced by some members of the organization in this manner.

McInnes was planning to fly to Australia with Milo Yiannopoulos and Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon's pseudonym), but Australian immigration authorities informed him that "he was judged to be of bad character" and would not be granted a visa to enter the country. An online petition called "#BanGavin" was opposed to issuing a visa to McInnes, receiving 81,000 signatures.

Conservative Review Television (CRTV), on which McInnes had anchored the Get Off My Lawn initiative, joined Glenn Beck's TheBlaze's television arm, Blaze Media, on December 3rd. McInnes was supposed to host his program for the new company, but McInnes, McInnes' co-president, described him as "a comedian and provocateur, one of the many voices and viewpoints on Blaze Media sites," according to McInnes. McInnes had no longer be associated with Blaze Media less than a week ago, although there were no details given as to why.

McInnes, who had previously been barred from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, had been barred from YouTube for "multiple third-party allegations of copyright violation" two days later. When asked to comment on his firing and bannings, McInnes said he had been victimized by "lies and propaganda" and that "there has been a concerted attempt to deplatform me." McInnes wrote to Huffington Post that "Someone very influential decided long ago that I shouldn't have a voice." I'm now out of forums and unable to protect myself. We no longer live in a free world. In an interview with ABC News program Nightline, McInnes also admitted to some personal responsibility for the situation. "I'm not guilt free in this." There's culpability here. I shouldn't have said, "You know, violence solves everything or something like that," without making the context clear, and I regret saying stuff like this." "This ship has sailed," McInnes said rather than apologizing or even retracting his previous remarks.

Residents of Larchmont, Westchester, where McInnes lives, launched a "Have Has No Home Here" campaign in response to the Proud Boys rally in October 2018, which involved the placement of the slogan on lawn signs around the neighborhood. "We stand as a community, and hatred and bigotry are not tolerated here," one resident said. Several days after the signs began, McInnes' wife sent emails to their neighbors complaining that the media had misrepresented McInnes.

Amy Siskind, a writer and blogger who lives in Mamaroneck, announced on Facebook that she was planning an anti-hate vigil. McInnes and his family arrived at the Siskind's door without invitation or warning; she called the police after a local newspaper carried an article about it.

McInnes wrote a letter at the end of December, which was dropped off at his neighbors' houses, which was still on display. He begged them to "become anti-Semitic" after a trip to Israel, or even saying that transgender people are "gender niggers" in it, and said he threatened them to remove their signs, characterized as "an anti-gay, homophobic, anti-Semitic, or intolerant" in "any of my "state-libertarian" after a trip to Israel, or even referring to transgender people as "beh The Proud Boys were a "drinking club [he] started many years ago as a joke," McInnes said. Despite the letter's formality, McInnes called the neighbour "assholes" and said, "If you have that sign on your lawn, you're a fuck retard."

"I don't care what Gavin says, I've done my study," one Larchmont resident said about him. He incites violence. He uses divisive, racial words. And although he may try to say he disapproves his followers, he is a participant in the epidemic. So when I read his letter, I was like, this is ridiculous."

HuffPost announced that they had seen evidence gathered by some neighbors that McInnes' wife, Emily, who identifies as a liberal Democrat, had harassed and threatened them, many days after the letter was sent out. Her frights were so bad that many neighbors notified the police.

Despite McInnes' breaking with the Proud Boys publicly in November 2018, he pleaded guilty to the Southern Poverty Law Center in February 2019 for naming the Proud Boys as a "general hate" group. In federal court in Alabama, the defamation complaint was brought. McInnes claimed that the hate group designation is inaccurate and motivated by fund-raising fears, and that his career has been harmed by it. SPLC, according to him, was "deplatformed" by Twitter, PayPal, Mailchimp, and iTunes, according to him.

"McInnes plays a duplicitous rhetorical game: rejecting white nationalism and, in particular, the word "alt-right," the SPLC says on its website, and that the company's "rank-and-file [members] and leaders regularly tweet white nationalist memes and maintain links with known militants. They are well-known for their anti-Muslim and misogynistic rhetoric. Proud Boys have appeared at rallies in Charlottesville alongside other hate groups. "Gavin McInnes has a tradition of making inflammatory remarks about Muslims, women, and the transgender community," the president of SPLC, Richard Cohen, wrote. The fact that he's dissatisfied with SPLC shows that we're doing our jobs exposing hate and bigotry."

Though McInnes was not a witness in the Proud Boys' August 2019 trial for their part in the unprovoking of the victims, the defendants' questioning of the defendants and other Proud Boys continued to involve him, his words, and his position in the trial. "Gavin McInnes is not a harmless satirist," a prosecutor said during closing arguments. McInnes is being "demonized," the defense claims, but it is a hatemonger."

Censored.TV, McInnes' online video portal, was launched in 2019. The platform was originally named FreeSpeech.TV, but it was later changed to its new name for copyright purposes. Cornel West, Candace Owens, Dinesh D'Souza, Roland Martin, Michelle Malkin, and Milo Yiannopoulos appear on his website, as well as Free Speech with Gavin McInnes, which includes influential pop culture and politics such as Cornel West, Candace Owens, Dinesh D'Souza, Renesh D'Souza, Stephan Martin, Robert Stone, Michelle Malkin, and Milo Yiannopoulos. Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, and Soph have all contributed to the website's display and video clips.

Yiannopoulous wrote on Telegram in May 2021 that Censored.TV is "laying off all its employees" and that lacked enough funds to sustain Yiannopoulous's show on the internet. McInnes denied the allegation when announcing the debut of several new shows on his website later this year.

McInnes hosts the video podcast Get Off My Lawn on his own Censored.tv channel.

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