Proud Boys founder says ‘corrupt leftwing media’ should apologise for January 6 riot
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Gavin McInnes told makers of BBC Trump documentary that far-right group wasn’t responsible for US Capitol insurrection

Far-right figure blames ‘corrupt leftwing media’ for January 6 attack on US Capitol in new Trump documentary

The founder of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that played a major role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and was memorably instructed by Donald Trump to “stand back and stand by”, has told the makers of a Trump documentary: “We want to make America hate again.”

Gavin McInnes, the UK-born British Canadian citizen who co-founded Vice magazine and was influential in the New York hipster scene of the early 2000s before becoming a far-right militia figure, also claimed to the BBC that his group wasn’t responsible for what happened that day.

“It was you,” he told the makers of the documentary, which has aired on the BBC’s Panorama strand. “If anyone should apologise … it should be the corrupt leftwing media, and I’ll accept your apology now if you want to do it.”

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Can we avoid becoming like the Area 51 raid where only one guy does it and all the chickens say they were just joking?

      For everyone saying eat the rich, launch them into space, guillotine them… How do we figure out when to do that, on which billionaires first? How do we prevent the billionaires from buying the website (or whatever) where it’s planned?

        • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Even then, how can trust scale up? Who makes the call “today is the day” for a huge group without that person getting a knock on their door?

          I forget where I read this, but if the British had just all the metadata we have today, then they could have stopped Paul Revere.