Gavin McInnes



How do you feel, you fucking useless fag? I'm so glad you're too scared to make babies. You represent the worst parts of evolution. "…the embodiment of smoldering ratshit" Gavin Miles McInnes is a British-born Canadian but US-based white nationalist activist, punk rocker, actor,  professional asshole,  and professional troll. McInnes was a cofounder of Vice Magazine in 1994, which he left in 2008. (You can blame him for the hipster "look".) He was also the founder of Proud Boys, a "Western chauvinist" alt-right nofap group noted for violence. McInnes turned over leadership of the Proud Boys to Enrique Tarrio in 2018, but in a 2021 interview McInnes was either confused or obfuscating about his ongoing role in the organization.

McInnes has regularly appeared on The Alex Jones Show, The Rebel Media, Fox News (from which he resigned in 2017), Ben Shapiro's TruthRevolt, and The Federalist. McInnes was also fired from Blaze Media for unknown reasons. McInnes has written for racist or racialist online publications: Taki's Magazine (resigned in 2017), American Renaissance. and VDARE.

Multiple people who have been directly acquainted with McInnes regard him as narcissistic or "profoundly narcissistic", with some claiming that he has narcissistic personality disorder (though they likely didn't have the qualifications to make such a clinical diagnosis). He has admitted to using Adderall and cocaine and has been accused of abusing Adderall by a former colleague; excessive use of either drug can lead to paranoia and psychosis. He has made statements indicating that he has a persecution complex ("I am the most misunderstood person in America."), which he blames on liberal persecution. For his part though, he has tried to normalize bigotry as "basic dad politics" ("racism is not a thing", "America was not built on slavery", "gay marriage is a scam").

White nationalism
Well, at least they're not fucking niggers or Puerto Ricans. At least they're white. McInnes later called this "an antiracist joke from several years ago that becomes reversed when taken out of context (in The NY Press [who conducted the interview] we were all dressed as skinheads except for Suroosh [Alvi] who was wearing a suit. We were all covered with fake blood and bruises to imply a fight had just finished of course without the photo the quote becomes venomous)."

In 2003, McInnes expressed his white pride:

In 2016, trying to change his image, McInnes claimed that the Proud Boys were just "Western Chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world" and nothing more. On his blog, "Street Carnage", he claimed that he had been described as a white nationalist because "demand for racists doesn't meet the supply so" the media has "to fabricate them out of thin air". McInnes continued:

In 2017, McInnes repeatedly espoused the white genocide conspiracy theory. In particular, he claimed that white abortions and immigration are leading to "white genocide in the West", that South African whites are victims of genocide, and that the media is pushing genocide on whites.

Anti-trans bigotry
In a 2014 article titled "Transphobia Is Perfectly Natural", McInnes wrote what can only be called a screed about trans people. A sampling of the screed reads:

Bigotry and denialism
McInnes plays a duplicitous rhetorical game: rejecting white nationalism and, in particular, the term "alt-right" while espousing some of its central tenets. For example, McInnes has himself said it is fair to call him Islamophobic. McInnes and the Proud Boys have been banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for violating policies of use related to promoting violent extremist groups and hate speech.

McInnes has frequently said outrageously-racist things and then later when confronted about them, claimed that they were taken out of context or that they were meant as 'jokes', but those could just as easily be dog whistles to fellow racists or a bullying tactic (along the lines of 'Can't you take a joke?' ).

What McInnes seems to admit to: transphobia, Islamophobia and misogyny ("I believe that 95 percent of women would be happier at home. I'm fine with being perceived as a misogynist.)

In November 2018, McInnes claimed to have cut ties with the Proud Boys two days after it was revealed that the FBI had designated the group as "an extremist group with ties to white nationalism". Nonetheless, he felt compelled to bring a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center in February 2019 because they designated the Proud Boys as a "general hate" group.

McInnes labelled African Americans  and  with the racist terms 'dindu nuffin', 'monkey actress' and  respectively. He wants you to know however that he's not a Nazi; otherwise, his followers will harass the fuck out of you.

McInnes visited Israel and spouted a bunch of antisemitic shit that was praised by both David Duke and Richard Spencer. Upon listening to the entire video, it's clear that additional context does not make it better. McInnes defended Holocaust deniers: Like at one point, the [Yad Vashem] tour guide goes, 'You know, and there are people who think that this didn't happen.' And I felt myself defending the super-far-right Nazis, just because I was sick of so much brainwashing. And I felt like going, 'Well, they never said it didn't happen. What they're saying is that it was much less than six million and that they starved to death and they weren't gassed.' And he blamed both the Holodomor and World War II on Jews.

Love thy neighbor
If you have that sign on your lawn, you’re a fucking retard. Following the Proud Boys' 2018 largely-unprovoked assaults on counter-protesters in New York City, McInnes' neighbors in suburban Larchmont, New York agreed to put up signs that read "Hate Has No Home Here". The assaults started after a speech by McInnes at a private Republican club and included McInnes' reenactment of the violent 1960 assassination of socialist Japanese politician After 'killing' the socialist in the reenactment, McInnes exhorted, "Never let evil take root." (referring to socialism). McInnes and his wife Emily Jendrisak took offense at their neighbors' innocuous signs, thinking that they were specifically being targeted. Jendrisak threatened to take legal action against the signs and made direct threats to her neighbors as well as threatening lawsuits against them.

Taken as a whole, the McInnes/Jendrisak attack on lawn signs that were not specifically directed at them looks like a friend argument under the guise of a failed publicity stunt (McInnes' open letter to his neighbors contained several lies; Jendrisak worked in public relations ):
 * "I am pro-gay, pro-Israel, virulently anti-racist libertarian of working-class heritage married to a Indian woman. Like most folks in Larchmont, my wife is a proud Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.")
 * "I make my living as a businessman and humorist, and as a political and social commentator. Unfortunately because of who I am and how I express these things, my family and I have become the targets of what we all agree does not belong here: Hate."
 * "The Proud Boys are a drinking club I started several years ago as a joke. There is no racial or ethnic component to its membership, its program or the idea behind it. As it is, I quit my involvement with the group recently and have nothing to do with it whatsoever."

Clarifying and correcting these statements, where they haven't already been clarified above:
 * Jendrisak's mother is Ho-Chunk and her father is presumably Slovak-American based on his surname. But not letting a chance to say something bigoted, McInnes has said elsewhere, "I've made my views on Indians very clear. I like them. I actually like them so much, I made three." and "'Don't let the kids be racist.' Those are going to be her [Jendrisak's] last words. Like I'd say to my little Indian kids, ‘All right, boys, now that she's dead, we can focus on some real nigger stuff. Ha ha! Come on, we’re moving South!'"
 * McInnes' claim to being a businessman is feeble: since he sold his interest in Vice, his primary business is running his blog.
 * McInnes' 'humor' consists primarily trying to provoke outrage, or to 'own the libs'.
 * Jendrisak is actually an unaffiliated voter.
 * Regarding the Proud Boys, McInnes has said, "We will kill you. That's the Proud Boys in a nutshell. We will kill you."

The Larchmont residents are not idiots, however, despite what McInnes thinks. Here's what some of McInnes' neighbors had to say about him:
 * "If you’re so tolerant, then put up a fucking sign in your yard, too, and stop being so narcissistic as to think that this is all about you."
 * "He thinks liberals are stupid and will buy into his B.S. ― as a 'humorist,' he should understand that the joke is on him!"
 * "Their attempts to turn this around are terribly manipulative."

Was it him who changed... or was it Vice?
The final result is really a group effort. It's like a gang bang where I'm the one getting fucked. One thing must be noted: he has always said crap like he says today, even back when he wrote for Vice, probably starting the (by now unconvincing) trend on the far-right that his more obscene statements were made "ironically". And he may have written entire early issues of Vice single-handedly, while definitely setting up the magazine's iconoclastic tone. For example, a noted back in this article, way back in a 2003 profile in The New York Times he said: "I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of. I don’t want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life". It's just that back then the magazine "was either bi-partisan or politically apathetic". It was when it started growing and getting more publicity money that McInnes got the purge, as many ad buyers wouldn't put money alongside "controversial" content, which was mostly written by McInnes. Notably, one of the other two co-founders, Suroosh Alvi, admitted to obsessively reading hate literature before starting Vice and that he moved on from that. TL;DR: Vice was the one who changed; McInnes probably did not.