Yeah, they did - AFTER it happened, anyway... Posted: Oct 1st, 2020 - 3:05 pm In Reply to: Ironically, the Proud Boys disavowed the Unite the Right - rally in Charlottesville and banned
They moved quickly to distance themselves, but really more to protect their organization than because they objected to what happened there.
"Proud Boys have appeared alongside other hate groups at extremist gatherings like the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville.
Indeed, former Proud Boys member Jason Kessler helped to organize the event, which brought together Klansmen, antisemites, Southern racists, and militias.
Kessler was only “expelled” from the group after the violence and near-universal condemnation of the Charlottesville rally-goers..."
"After Charlottesville, in a move to protect the fratty and innocuous Proud Boys’ brand he’s worked so hard to cultivate, McInnes ejected Kessler from the organization and insisted he had never really been a Proud Boy. “I’m suspicious of you, coming to Proud Boys meetings saying you’re not alt-right…and I think you were there to try to recruit guys,” McInnes told Kessler when they spoke on his show two days after the rally.
It was only after the violence in Charlottesville, when any doubts about the true nature of the movement were stripped away, that Mcinnes attempted to earnestly distance the Proud Boys from the alt-right label. Before that, he seemed content to let the Proud Boys brand appear more ideologically ambiguous, profiting off the alt-right’s rising popularity until things got ugly..."
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