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.”

  • solomon42069@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s one area I’m proud of Australia for. We frequently deny travel for problematic people - most recently Candace Owens was denied entry. Most likely for saying that Australia should be invaded, but she’s said a lot of horrible stuff so who can tell!

    • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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      2 days ago

      We do have our share of anti-immigrant immigrants though.

      Jack van Tongeren comes to mind. A Dutch migrant that hated asians. He set fire to a bunch of Asian restaurants. There was something of a political movement IIRC, they wanted to send asian migrants back to where they came from (?!) and relocate Australia’s Capital City to Alice Springs because it was geographically central.

      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I don’t know much about Australia, but isn’t the geographically central part the least pleasant livable part?

        • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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          2 days ago

          Yes!

          I mean I don’t want to be mean about where someone lives. About 33k people live in Alice Springs and I’m sure it’s a great place to be.

          That said, it really is in the middle of the desert. It’s harsh beauty is breathtaking even on google maps satellite view:

          There’s no sensible reason to move Australia’s Political capital in any case.

          I doubt it’s even feasible to support a large population in that area.

          • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            Yeah, perhaps I should have said livable instead of pleasant. I’ll change it. But Phoenix and Las Vegas have a lot of problems because they’re giant cities built in places that can’t really support populations that size using water in the way they do.