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The Proud Boys are not white supremacists.

“Anti-racist” is brand of explicit racial discrimination dressed up as civil rights activism.

And no, "we" would not "all be so much better off" for having licked Kendi's boot instead of upholding the sanctity of basic civil rights that enable the very activism (good or bad) that you're talking about.

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jacquesm|5 years ago

> The Proud Boys are not white supremacists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys

Covzire|5 years ago

The leader isn't even white, nor are most of their members. He was on a youtube podcast recently, with Tim Pool I think, something definitely doesn't make sense between what the media is constantly parroting about them and what they actually are.

djsumdog|5 years ago

Wikipedia might be good for small, factual articles. But for anything remotely controversial, it leans hard-left. Larry Sanger's blog post gets it head on:

https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/

The Prod Boys are too new, but whenever you look at an older controversial topic, ALWAYS read the Talk page first, and also, go back 10 years in the history and read that version of the article and the first version.

microcolonel|5 years ago

If you're referring to the sentence containing “several members have been affiliated with white supremacy”, it kinda doesn't jive with the fact that their highest leadership position is filled by an afro-cuban man, and the fact that there is no official or de-facto-official Proud Boys public communication of anything regarding white supremacy other than condemnation of it, nor any official or sanctioned actions taken against visibly non-white groups or people.

I mean, if there were white supremacists in the Proud Boys, something that isn't even alleged in that article, surely they would not continue once the group was being led by a man who is like 25-75% black.

The only reason they are being framed so aggressively as white supremacists now, is that Joe Biden mentioned them on the debate stage. Rather than accounting for Joe Biden's ignorance or malice, the media preferred to alter public perception to justify his comments; and it looks like it sorta worked!