Lauren Southern

. As far as I’m concerned, Hitler was just a SJW who happened to get freaky amounts of power and actually implement his #KillAllJews (the predecessor to #KillAllMen) worldview. Lauren Southern is a Canadian (possibly former) white nationalist and far-right activist  from British Columbia who, in March 2018, was banned from entering the UK for distributing leaflets saying "Allah is a gay god", which in the UK is considered incitement to religious hatred against Muslims. The political views she espoused were in staunch opposition to Islam, liberalism, multiculturalism, and feminism, while being in favor of paleoconservatism, cultural nationalism, and the right to keep and bear arms. She has immigrated to Australia, despite being a fervent anti-immigrant advocate during her career. Since her return to public life, Southern has returned to film-making, while being an anti-masker on SkyNews. Despite claiming in her famed "Why I Left, Why I'm Back" video that she has "changed", Southern has unsurprisingly shown to be the exact same person she was when she left the internet. This became evident in November of 2020 when she threw a tantrum on her Wikipedia page that refers to her as a white nationalist — despite the fact that this labeling is just one of the many consequences of her actions. So much for personal responsibility.

Southern was described as alt-right by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Southern contributed to The Rebel Media, a hard-right wing Canadian online political and social commentary media platform owned by conservative political activist Ezra Levant, where she hosted the talk show Stand Off with Lauren Southern.

Southern, a former member of the Libertarian Party of Canada, considers herself a cultural libertarian. However she holds many reactionary and nationalist views that seemingly oppose libertarianism. She has expressed support for Donald Trump and for Nigel Farage.

Early life and education
Southern studied political science at the University of Fraser Valley for two years before dropping out, calling the program "a waste of money to pay for knowledge she could get on her own." During her time there, she was heavily political to the point that most of her peers either saw her views as absurd or simply believed it better not to discuss politics with her due to how unpleasant she could get, and described herself as being into the kind of "Ayn Rand bitch style of libertarianism." She applied to be a military intelligence officer after leaving the university, but would become a poster child of the alt-right after attending a Toronto conference headed by Ezra Levant.

Immigration
If only you read a history book you'd know opening your gates to the barbarians leads to the downfall of great civilizations 👌🏻 On 15 July 2017, Southern published the video "The Streets of Paris", which featured footage of Paris that included nonwhites (gasp!) and this hilarious description:

Southern later expressed linguistic horror on behalf of the French:

On 3 July 2017, Southern published the video "The Great Replacement", which featured Southern narrating statistics over chaotic footage of migrants. Southern describes the Great Replacement as "a very simple concept: you have one people and in the space of a single generation you have a different people" and claims that "the future of Europe looks pretty halal". Southern lists several reasons why the Great Replacement is occurring: The Christchurch terrorist referenced this conspiracy theory during the shooting.
 * First, "white people hate themselves" because "many white people feel that replacing themselves will relieve guilt of past crimes" and "unlike almost every other culture in the world, that wants to preserve itself and remain homogenous, Europeans actively invite the destruction of their tradition".
 * Second, "replace-ism", the idea that all people are interchangeable and can be replaced without consequence. (We wonder what ideology would suggest different human groups are not interchangeable.)
 * Third, birth rates: the West "tax[es] people into oblivion to the point where they can't afford to get married, buy a house, or have lots of kids, then we spend their tax dollars importing people and paying their welfare for their large families". This is, of course, absurd: the is the cause of reduced birthrates, not taxation, and immigrants are net economic contributors. Also, most white people in the West who "can't afford" to start a family cite low wages, high debt (especially medical and student loan debt in the U.S.), and high living (especially rent) costs in the U.S. as disincentives and barriers to having children, not taxes.

Southern pretends that she's not racist, but on a Sky News interview, she considered that it would be easy for a white non-migrant to come to Europe if he wanted to as long as he puts some "bronzer" and gets on a "dinghy boat".

White genocide
On 25 June 2018, Southern published a video "FARMLANDS (2018) | Official Documentary" which claims that South African farm attacks constitute an ongoing or impending genocide against whites. This is a (false) common talking point for white nationalists. Southern previously interviewed the a group of "race war preppers" headed by Simon Roche. Roche frequently appears as a talking head without Southern mentioning his extremist views or links to Identity Evropa and the League of the South.

Nationalism
Southern believes that people should consider their nation as their extended family — which is literally fascist rhetoric — and also supports "pan-Western nationalism", which is a fancy way of saying "white nationalism":

Islam
Southern thinks, pointing to Ben Shapiro's video "The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority", that a majority of Muslims in the world hold views that "do not align with Western values", and she states that she does not want such Muslims in the West, "changing the base culture of the West".

Southern believes that Hitler was simply too friendly to the Muslims:

However, even if Hitler was allegedly an "Islamophile", over 5 million Muslim soldiers volunteered to fight against him and the Nazis in World War II (over 1.5 million died in action and an unknown number were wounded).

Alt-right
Southern rejects the alt-right label despite agreeing with many of its goals. She stated, "It's hard not to sympathize with a lot of the alt-right causes and I do align with a lot of them. I keep a healthy skepticism of any movement that I join or sympathize with, or just talk about. […] and the alt-right certainly deserves a healthy skepticism." When described as an alt-right journalist by Thunderf00t, Southern stated that "[w]hile I certainly have crossover with alt-right on a decent amount of subjects, I don't focus on white identity as one of my main topics. […] And because of this most of the alt-right do not refer to me as alt-right. […] Many people on [the] alt-right would find the description of me [as alt-right to be] inaccurate and laughable".
 * 1) AltRightMeans I don't have to be ashamed of my heritage.

Traditionalism
Despite claiming to dislike feminism and advocating a return to traditionalism, Southern (and other women in the Alt-right) has complained about harassment from male members of the Alt-right for not being married with children at age 22 years old. Gee, the racist and hateful audience that she has amassed are also sexist? Who could have guessed?! In a YouTube video, she argues that it would be more "degenerate" for her to have children now without finding the right man. Regardless of whether she supports feminism or not, we're sure many feminists would respect Southern's right to marry and have children whenever she wants to, as do we.

Religion
When she was asked about her religion, specifically to the question whether she is Christian, she answered she is "searching". She has since converted to Catholicism as a result of marrying a Catholic man.

Political activities
Southern has run as a candidate for the Libertarian Party of Canada. She is the force behind "The Triggering", an event to "defend freedom of speech by posting 'offensive content' on social media". "The Triggering" occurred on 9 March 2016, the day after International Women's Day, which may have been intentional. Needless to say, her fans rejoiced and took part in the event.

She appears to be buddies with British right-wing activist Milo Yiannopoulos, a former senior editor for far-right news and opinion website Breitbart News, as they appeared together in October of 2015 during a Slutwalk to share their "opinions" on rape culture. She did the same thing in a Vancouver Slutwalk in June of that year. Classy. She also attended an Antifa rally with The Rebel Media in London following Brexit and received a hostile reception from protesters.

Southern has accused the left of promoting a culture of decadence and laziness, and wants the youth to resort to a culture of "traditional values".

Far-right connections
Southern has since claimed allegiance to two radical Identitarian, alt-right groups, Defend Europe and Generation Identity (specifically its French branch). Their activities have included interfering with humanitarian vessels trying to rescue migrants by shooting flares at them and yelling hate slogans. In a Twitter video, she called for 4chan's infamous /pol/ board to join the fight.

The groups have been labeled as anti-Islam, anti-immigration factions that wish to protect Europeans from the threat of an invasion. Besides the obvious reactionary claims, they have also justified their xenophobia on the pretense of wishing to stop the alleged human trafficking of refugees drowning in the sea caused by corrupt humanitarian aid workers who supposedly cooperate with smugglers by... trying to sink boats of refugees themselves instead.

As expected, international human rights activists have widely condemned the groups and their actions. Perhaps then it's not surprising that Patreon later deleted Southern's account on the grounds that she was "raising funds in order to take part in activities that are likely to cause loss of life."

When Southern and alt-right dark wizard Stefan Molyneux embarked on a speaking tour of Australia in 2018, they met with the Lads Society, a far right men's only society led by convicted criminal and Neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell. They were also photographed with the group performing white nationalist salutes.

Calling it quits
On June 2, 2019, Southern announced that she was quitting political activism.

Right-wing blogger, podcaster, and Fox News favorite, Allie Beth Stuckey expressed regret about Southern quitting activism. In a reply tweet, she wrote: "This made me sad, but I’m happy for you! I’ve been meaning to message you to say that Borderless was a masterpiece. So much courage and empathy. God bless! ❤️"

On June 19, 2020, Southern uploaded a video, explaining why she returned and touched slightly on how her views had changed. She immediately got in a (now-deleted) Twitter spat with Paul Joseph Watson. She then made a verified account on Wikipedia and unsuccessfully tried to remove from her article the line, "She has been described as alt-right and a white nationalist," and that she had supported "The Great Replacement Theory."

Personal life and hypocrisy
Lauren Southern, in spite of her fervent white nationalist and "traditional values" views, became pregnant by a part Asian man before being married, with their relationship quite at odds toward her racist ideas. Despite this (being in an interracial marriage, with a mixed race baby), she expressed no real regrets over her advocacy, even after pushing vile ideas for years which are inspiration to racist mass murders (one has got to wonder what her husband thinks of all this...). He later left her, according to her since he lost his job over being married to her.