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Line 19: }} '''Gavin McInnes''' ({{IPAc-en\|m\|ə\|ˈ\|k\|ɪ\|n\|ᵻ\|s}}; born 1970) is a ~~British-~~Canadian writer and [[Far-right politics\|far-right]] political commentator noted for his promotion of violence against political opponents.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Why are the Proud Boys so violent? Ask Gavin McInnes \|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/18/why-are-proud-boys-so-violent-ask-gavin-mcinnes \|accessdate=23 September 2019 \|work=Hatewatch \|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center \|date=18 October 2018 \|language=en \|quote=McInnes has a well documented and long-running record of blatantly promoting violence and making threats. “We will kill you. That’s the Proud Boys in a nutshell. We will kill you,” he said on his Compound Media show in mid-2016. His followers often repeat his calls for violence and seemed especially emboldened this past summer as they participated in a number of large-scale “free speech” rallies across the country.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Coaston \|first1=Jane \|title=The Proud Boys, the bizarre far-right street fighters behind violence in New York, explained \|url=https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17978358/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-manhattan-gop-violence \|accessdate=23 September 2019 \|work=Vox \|date=15 October 2018 \|language=en \|quote=It’s that violence that the Proud Boys have become best known for, with the group even boasting of a “tactical defensive arm” known as the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (or “FOAK”) reportedly with McInnes’s backing. McInnes made a video praising the use of violence this June, saying, “What’s the matter with fighting? Fighting solves everything. The war on fighting is the same as the war on masculinity.”}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Aquilina \|first1=Kimberly M. \|title=Gavin McInnes explains what a Proud Boy is and why porn and wanking are bad \|url=https://www.metro.us/news/gavin-mcinnes-speaks-out-after-nyu-protest-cancels-event/zsJqbh---FxD2szu1meZg \|accessdate=23 September 2019 \|work=www.metro.us \|date=9 February 2017 \|quote='People say if someone’s fighting, go get a teacher. No, if someone’s f---ing up your sister, put them in the hospital.'}} </ref> Born in [[Hitchin]], England, McInnes immigrated to Canada at a young age, before moving to America to pursue his political career. He holds both Canadian and British citizenship.{{r\|"Far-right frontier"}} He is the co-founder of [[Vice Media]] and [[Vice (magazine)\|''Vice'' magazine]],<ref name="Pareene" /><ref name="gakwertwo">{{cite news \|work=[[Gawker]] \|title=The 'Vice' Boys Are All Grown Up And Working For Viacom \|url=http://gawker.com/324484/the-vice-boys-are-all-grown-up-and-working-for-viacom \|date=19 November 2007 \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407104804/http://gawker.com/324484/the-vice-boys-are-all-grown-up-and-working-for-viacom \|archivedate=7 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/28/terry-richardson-porn-chic-moulded-look-era-fashion-industry-photographer\|title=How Terry Richardson created porn ‘chic’ and moulded the look of an era\|first=Richard\|last=Benson\|date=28 October 2017\|accessdate=29 October 2017\|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> and host of ''Get Off My Lawn'', formerly on [[Conservative Review\|Conservative Review Television]]. He is a contributor to ''[[Taki's Magazine]]'' and a former contributor to [[The Rebel Media]], and was a frequent guest on television programs on [[Fox News]] and [[TheBlaze]].<ref>{{cite news \|last=Stephens \|first=Chase \|date=12 February 2016 \|title=McInnes: Dear Feminists, Men Have It Worse In All Areas Including Being Raped \|url=http://www.dailywire.com/news/3335/dear-feminists-men-have-it-worse-all-areas-chase-stephens \|website=The Daily Wire \|access-date=7 August 2016}}{{better source\|reason=Only really supports that he was a one time guest on Fox news.\|date=February 2019}}</ref>

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