118: The Banning of Gavin McInnes—Gavin McInnes
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If you enjoy this show please consider being a supporter. Donate here: www.patrickcoffin.media/donate. Thank you! Our Premium-content website, Coffin Nation, launches on March 15. Doors close again on March 29. If you would like to be part of our community and enjoy other show segments like The Coffin Reports and TransformU episodes as well as our live webinars for members-only, get on the waiting list here: www.coffinnation.com Also we are going to Oberammergau! Check out the pilgrimage here. ******************************************************* Gavin McInnes (muhKINNis) defies any kind of shorthand description. The perpetually lied about McInnes is, inter alia, the co-founder of Vice magazine, the founder of the Proud Boys, a social critic and commentator, a satirist so good his enemies don't get him, a writer, an ex-atheist Catholic convert, and a resolute family man. He's also stinking hilarious, if potty mouthed. (Maybe partly why?) So, potty word alert on this one. Banned from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon—and the sovereign country of Australia owing to his "bad character"—Gavin has also launched a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for slandering him as a "hate group" (ironic, considering what the SPLC doe$ for a living) and damaging is career. After this interview, you will know: * The background to his exit from the Proud Boys group (it's not what you'd think) * Why the Right wants to debate and the Left wants to delete * Why the far Left became allies with militant Islam * What "Western chauvinism" means and doesn't mean * Where his punch-back-twice-as-hard attitude comes from * Why his woke (and rumor has it fictional) brother Miles McInnes is being hired by Rebel Media Resources mentioned in this episode: Get Off My Lawn podcast hosted by Gavin McInnes Defend Gavin website that gives the context and details of the SPLC lawsuit The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood by Gavin McInnes No Hate, he website of Miles McInnes, which Gavin strongly recommends you not visit Question of the week: Why do free-speech advocates assume someone else will always be willing to fight for your right to free speech? **************************************************** Our Premium-content website, Coffin Nation, launches on March 15. Doors close again on March 29. If you would like to be part of our community and enjoy other show segments like The Coffin Reports and TransformU episodes as well as our live webinars for members-only, get on the waiting list here: www.coffinnation.com