Justin Ward
1 min readJun 4, 2020

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With all due respect, it’s difficult to take you seriously when you’re trying to present Gavin McInnes, the founder of a fascist street gang, as being somehow unfairly maligned.

If you think my characterization of the Proud Boys as a “fascist street gang” is somehow unfair (I’m sure you do), then you should read up on JL Van Dyke, the Proud Boys’ lawyer and former member of its “council of Elders,” who was briefly positioned to take Gavin’s place when he quit.

Anyways he was recently arrested for trying to enlist some Proud Boys to beat up and possibly murder one of his critics. I also have screenshots of him talking about doing the same to me.

But yeah, sure, Gavin McInnes isn’t an extremist. He just founded a club full of them?

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Justin Ward
Justin Ward

Written by Justin Ward

Journalist and activist. Founder and co-chair of DivestSPD. Bylines at SPLC, The Baffler, GEN, USA Today. Follow on Twitter: @justwardoctrine, @DivestSPD

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