Gavin McInnes

Gavin McInnes
McInnes hosting his show in 2015
Born Gavin Miles McInnes
(1970-07-17) 17 July 1970
Hitchin, England
Residence New York City
Citizenship Canadian
Occupation Writer, comedian, actor, commentator, columnist
Home town Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)
Emily Jendrisak (m. 2005)
Children 3
Gavin McInnes
100,000 subscribers 2016

Gavin Miles McInnes (/məˈkɪnɪs/; born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, actor, and comedian. He is the co-founder of Vice Media and Vice Magazine[1][2][3] and host of Get Off My Lawn on Conservative Review. He is a contributor to Taki's Magazine and a former contributor to The Rebel Media, and was a frequent guest on television programs on Fox News and TheBlaze.[4]

McInnes was a leading figure in the hipster subculture while at Vice. After leaving the company in 2008, he became increasingly known for his far-right political views. He is the founder of the Proud Boys, a western Chauvinist men's group. McInnes personally identifies as "new right".[5]

Early life

McInnes was born in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England, to Scottish parents, James and Loraine McInnes.[6] His family immigrated to Canada when McInnes was four.[7] He attended Ottawa's Earl of March Secondary School.[8] As a teen, McInnes played in the Ottawa punk band Anal Chinook.[9] As an adult, McInnes immigrated to the US from Canada.

Career

McInnes co-founded Vice in 1994 with Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi.[2] During his tenure there he was described as the "godfather" of hipsterdom by WNBC[10] and as "one of hipsterdom’s primary architects" by AdBusters.[11] He occasionally contributed articles to Vice, including "The VICE Guide to Happiness"[12] and "The VICE Guide to Picking Up Chicks",[13] and co-authored two Vice books: The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll,[14] and Vice Dos and Don'ts: 10 Years of VICE Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques.[15]

In an interview in the New York Press in 2002, McInnes said that he was pleased that most Williamsburg hipsters were white.[16][17] McInnes later wrote in a letter to Gawker that the interview was done as a prank intended to ridicule "baby boomer media like The Times".[18] After he became the focus of a letter-writing campaign by a black reader, Vice apologized for McInnes's comments.[17] McInnes was featured in a 2003 New York Times article about Vice magazine expressing his political views.[17]

In 2006, he was featured in The Vice Guide to Travel with actor and comedian David Cross in China.[19] He left Vice in 2008 due to what he described as "creative differences".[1] In a 2013 interview with The New Yorker, McInnes said his split with Vice was about the increasing influence of corporate advertising on Vice's content, stating that "Marketing and editorial being enemies had been the business plan".[20]

In 2008, McInnes created the website StreetCarnage.com. He also co-founded an advertising agency called Rooster where he serves as creative director.[21] In 2009, McInnes convinced a journalist at The Village Voice that he had been knocked out after losing a challenge to an MMA fighter.[22] The footage was actually an outtake from a failed TV pilot.[23] In 2010, McInnes convinced a journalist at Gawker that he had eaten a bowl of urine-soaked corn flakes after not winning their "Hipster of the Decade" competition.[24] The footage was actually an outtake from a collection of comedy sketches called Gavin McInnes Is a Fucking Asshole.[25]

McInnes was featured in Season 3 of the Canadian reality TV show Kenny vs. Spenny, as a judge in the "Who is Cooler?" episode. In 2010, McInnes was approached by Adult Swim and asked to play the part of Mick, an anthropomorphic Scottish soccer ball, in the short-lived Aqua Teen Hunger Force spin-off Soul Quest Overdrive.[26] After losing a 2010 pilot contest to Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge, six episodes of Soul Quest Overdrive were ordered, with four airing in Adult Swim's 4 AM DVR Theater block on 25 May 2011 before quickly being cancelled. McInnes jokingly blamed the show's cancellation on the other cast members (Kristen Schaal, David Cross, and H. Jon Benjamin) not being "as funny" as him.[27]

In 2012, McInnes wrote a book called How to Piss in Public.[28] In 2013 he directed The Brotherhood of the Traveling Rants, a documentary on his tour as an occasional standup comedian.[29] For the film, he faked a serious car accident. Also that year, McInnes starred in the independent film How to Be a Man, which premiered at Sundance Next Weekend.[30] He has also played supporting roles in other films including Soul Quest Overdrive (2010), Creative Control (2015) and One More Time (2015).

In August 2014, McInnes was asked to take an indefinite leave of absence as chief creative officer of Rooster, following online publication at Thought Catalog of an essay about transphobia titled "Transphobia is Perfectly Natural"[31] that sparked a call to boycott the company. In response, Rooster issued a statement, saying in part: "We are extremely disappointed with his actions and have asked that he take a leave of absence while we determine the most appropriate course of action."[32] McInnes defended the article by saying "All I was saying was transsexuals have a huge suicide rate", and calling the reaction "fake hysteria".[33]

In June 2015, broadcaster Anthony Cumia announced that McInnes would be hosting a show on his network, therefore retiring the Free Speech podcast that he had started in March. The Gavin McInnes Show premiered on Compound Media on 15 June. McInnes is a former contributor to Canadian far-right portal The Rebel Media[34] and a regular on conspiracy theorist media platform Infowars' The Alex Jones Show, and Fox News' Red Eye, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and The Sean Hannity Show. He writes for Taki's Magazine[35] and previously wrote for TruthRevolt,[36] Death and Taxes,[37] The Federalist,[38] American Renaissance,[39] and VDARE[40]. McInnes tweeted in December 2015 that every case of domestic abuse he knows about "was the result of some cunt trying to ruin [a man’s] life"[41]; he had previously written that women "want to be downright abused".[42] In 2016, McInnes referred to Jada Pinkett Smith as a "monkey actress" on his radio show.[43]

On 2 February 2017, in an episode of his YouTube show "The Rebel", McInnes announced his resignation from Fox News.[44]

McInnes left Rebel Media in August 2017, declaring that he was going to be "a multi-media Howard Stern–meets–Tucker Carlson".[45] He later joined CRTV, an online television network launched by Conservative Review. The debut episode of his new show Get Off My Lawn, aired on 22 September 2017.[46][47]

On August 10, 2018, McInnes's Twitter account, as well as the account for the Proud Boys, was suspended by Twitter per their rules on violent extremist groups. The suspension was ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally, and the scheduled 2018 Unite the Right rally.[48][49]

On October 12th, 2018, McInnes participated in a reenactment of the 1960 assassination of Inejiro Asanuma by Otoya Yamaguchi at the Metropolitan Republican Club. After the event, a contingent of Proud Boys were caught on tape physically assaulting protesters outside the venue.[50]

Views

McInnes describes himself as libertarian[51] and part of the New Right, a term that he prefers to use rather than alt-light.[52]

McInnes has referred to himself as a "western chauvinist" and started a men's organization called Proud Boys who swear their allegiance to this cause.[53][54][55][56][57][58] In 2003 McInnes said, "I don't want our culture diluted. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, English-speaking way of life."[59]

Race and ethnicity

McInnes has been accused of racism.[60][61] He has stated alleged racial slurs against Susan Rice and Jada Pinkett Smith personally,[62][63] and more widely against Palestinians and Asians.[64][65] McInnes has said that there is a "mass conformity that black people push on each other",[66] and in 2018, he claimed there was significant "black violence" in the United States, with 8,000 cases a year of black-on-black murder.[67]

Judaism and anti-Semitism

In March 2017, during a trip to Israel with The Rebel Media, McInnes made controversial comments defending Holocaust deniers, accused the Jews of being responsible for the Holodomor and the Treaty of Versailles, and said he was "becoming anti-Semitic". He later said his comments were taken out of context.[68] McInnes also produced a video for Rebel called "Ten Things I Hate about Jews", later retitled "Ten Things I Hate About Israel".[69][41][70]

Islam

McInnes is anti-Islam.[62][71] Claiming that "Muslims are stupid", he has stated that "the only thing they really respect is violence and being tough."[72] He also has equated Islam with fascism, stating "Nazis are not a thing. Islam is a thing."[73] In April 2018, Mcinnes labelled a significant section of Muslims as both mentally ill and incestuous, claiming that "Muslims have a problem with inbreeding. They tend to marry their first cousins... and that is a major problem [in the U.S.] because when you have mentally damaged inbreds – which not all Muslims are, but a disproportionate number are – and you have a hate book called the Koran... you end up with a perfect recipe for mass murder."[74][75]

Gender

McInnes has been accused of sexism by various media outlets including Chicago Sun-Times,[76] Independent Journal Review,[77] Salon,[78] Jezebel,[79] The Hollywood Reporter,[80] and Slate.[81] In October 2013, McInnes said during a panel interview that "people would be happier if women would stop pretending to be men", and that feminism "has made women less happy".[82] He explained that "We've trivialized childbirth and being domestic so much that women are forced to pretend to be men. They're feigning this toughness, they're miserable."[83] A heated argument ensued with University of Miami School of Law professor Mary Anne Franks.[84]

White genocide

McInnes has espoused the white genocide conspiracy theory saying that white women having abortions[85] and immigration is "leading to white genocide in the West".[86][87][88][89] In 2018, regarding South African farm attacks and land reform proposals, he said that black South Africans were not "trying to get their land back – they never had that land", instead claiming there were "ethnic cleansing" efforts against white South Africans.[90]

Personal life

In 2005, McInnes married Manhattan-based publicist and consultant Emily Jendrisak.[6]

Notable filmography

References

  1. 1 2 Alex Pareene (23 January 2008). "Co-Founder Gavin McInnes Finally Leaves 'Vice'". Gawker. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 "The 'Vice' Boys Are All Grown Up And Working For Viacom". Gawker. 19 November 2007. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Benson, Richard (28 October 2017). "How Terry Richardson created porn 'chic' and moulded the look of an era". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Stephens, Chase (12 February 2016). "McInnes: Dear Feminists, Men Have It Worse In All Areas Including Being Raped". The Daily Wire. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "@gavin2000 on Twitter".
  6. 1 2 "Emily Jendriasak and Gavin McInnes". Gawker.com. Gawker. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Shaidle, Kathy (27 December 2013). "10 Great Things About the Brits - Taki's Magazine". Takimag.com. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  8. ↑ McInnes, Gavin (2013). The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781451614183. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes on Montreal junkies, Fox News and the death of cool". Nightlife.Ca. 14 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Mawuse Ziegbe. ""Vice" Founder Gavin McInnes on Split From Glossy: "It's Like a Divorce"". NBC New York. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  11. ↑ Douglas Haddow (29 July 2008). "Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization". Adbusters. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  12. ↑ "The VICE Guide To Happiness". Vice. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "The VICE Guide to Picking Up Chicks". Vice. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  14. ↑ "The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll". Goodreads. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "Vice Dos and Don'ts". Goodreads. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "Vice Rising: Corporate Media Woos Magazine World's Punks". New York Press. 8 October 2002.
  17. 1 2 3 "The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand". The New York Times. 28 September 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  18. ↑ Gavin McInnes. "Letter to Gawker from Gavin McInnes". Gawker.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  19. ↑ Gavin McInnes (2 August 2007). "DAVID CROSS IN CHINA (part 1)". Youtube.com. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  20. ↑ Widdicombe, Lizzie (8 April 2013). "The Bad-Boy Brand". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  21. ↑ Braiker, Brian (20 June 2011). "Creating Ads For People Who Hate Ads". Adweek. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  22. ↑ Baron, Zach. "Gavin McInnes Gets Knocked the Fuck Out," Village Voice (5 May 2009).
  23. ↑ "The Immersionist with Gavin McInnes," Relevant Pictures. Accessed 5 April 2011.
  24. ↑ Kamer, Foster. "Hipster of the Decade Loser Gavin McInnes Accepts 'Award' by Eating Bowl of Pissed-In Cereal," Archived 8 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Gawker (2 January 2010).
  25. ↑ "Gavin McInnes Is a Fucking Asshole DVD". Street Carnage. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  26. ↑ "ADULT SWIM – SOUL QUEST OVERDRIVE". Rooster. 27 May 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  27. ↑ "SOUL QUEST OVERDRIVE: WATCH THE WHOLE SERIES HERE". StreetCarnage.com. 27 May 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  28. ↑ "Gavin McInnes: An In-depth Interview With "The Godfather of Hipsterdom"". Thought Catalog. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  29. ↑ Grant, Drew. "Gavin McInnes Wrecks Car, 'Loses' Best Friend in An Attempt to Win Back Dignity After Observer Punking (Video)," The Observer (27 March 2012)
  30. ↑ von Zurmwall, Nate (August 11, 2013). "Day 3: Gavin McInnes' Errant Life Tips in How To Be A Man; James Ponsoldt's Advice to Filmmakers". Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original on August 15, 2013.
  31. ↑ McInnes, Gavin (12 August 2014). "Transphobia is Perfectly Natural". Thought Catalog. The Thought & Expression Company. Click "Continue" link at the very bottom of the warning page to view original article.
  32. ↑ Monllos, Kristina (15 August 2014). "Rooster CCO Gavin McInnes Asked to Take Leave of Absence Following transphobic Thought Catalog essay, boycott". Adweek. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  33. ↑ "Fired Writer Gavin McInnes: Politically Correct Outrage Is Like The Mob". The Daily Caller. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  34. ↑ "Rebel Media meltdown: Faith Goldy fired as politicians, contributors distance themselves". National Post. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  35. ↑ Theodoracopulos, Taki. "Taki's Magazine - Contributors". Takimag.com. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  36. ↑ "Gavin McInnes". TruthRevolt. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  37. ↑ "Guest Article: Gavin McInnes Discusses Roman Polanski And Child Predators". Death and Taxes. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  38. ↑ "Why Your Top 10 Reasons For Not Having Kids Are Stupid". Thefederalist.com. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  39. ↑ "Gavin McInnes, Author at American Renaissance". American Renaissance.
  40. ↑ "Gavin McInnes | VDARE - premier news outlet for patriotic immigration reform". Vdare.com. Retrieved 10 March 2016.
  41. 1 2 Marcotte, Amanda (March 16, 2017). "Bad boy gone worse: Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes slides from right-wing provocateur to the neo-Nazi fringe". Salon.com.
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  43. ↑ Campbell, Jon (15 February 2017). "Gavin McInnes Wants You to Know He's Totally Not a White Supremacist". Village Voice.
  44. ↑ "10 Secrets About Fox News (Now That I've Quit)". Therebel.media. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  45. ↑ "The REAL reason I left The Rebel". therebel.media. 25 August 2017.
  46. ↑ "Get Off My Lawn Debut Episode | Part 1 - CRTV", Crtv.com, retrieved 2017-09-22
  47. ↑ "Get Off My Lawn Debut Episode | Part 2 - CRTV", Crtv.com, retrieved 2017-09-22
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  52. ↑ McInnes, Gavin, Alt Light is a gay term that sounds like a diet soda in bed w Alt Right. We're "The New Right."
  53. ↑ Mike Carter, Seattle police wary of May Day violence between pro- and anti-Trump groups, Seattle Times (1 May 2017).
  54. ↑ Colleen Long, 11 arrests at NYU protest over speech by 'Proud Boys' leader, Associated Press (3 February 2017): "a far-right men's organization"
  55. ↑ Tasker, John Paul. "Head of Canada's Indigenous veterans group hopes Proud Boys don't lose their CAF jobs". CBC. CBC.
  56. ↑ Elizabeth McMillan (4 July 2017). "Forces members who disrupted Indigenous rally face 'severe consequences'". CBC.
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  58. ↑ Gavin McInnes. "The Proud Boys are Western Chauvinists - that's it". streetcarnage.com. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
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  60. ↑ "Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes heading to Australia in November". news.com.au. 21 August 2018.
  61. ↑ "Right-wing activist heading to Australia". The Queensland Times. 21 August 2018.
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  63. ↑ "The alt-right's Proud Boys love Fred Perry polo shirts. The feeling is not mutual". The Washington Post. 10 July 2017.
  64. ↑ "We need to talk about Chelsea Manning". The Verge. 15 February 2017.
  65. ↑ "New "Fight Club" Ready for Street Violence". Southern Poverty Law Center. 25 April 2017.
  66. ↑ "The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers: 2 controversial groups involved in major protests". ABC News. 19 July 2018.
  67. ↑ "Gavin McInnes on Childish Gambino's This Is America: "Black violence is a bonfire"". Media Matters. 14 May 2018.
  68. ↑ McInnes, Gavin (12 March 2017). "What Gavin McInnes really thinks about the Holocaust". The Rebel Media.
  69. ↑ Sparks, Riley (15 March 2017). "Rebel Media is defending contributor behind 'repulsive rant' that was praised by white supremacists". Nationalobserver.com. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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  71. ↑ "Controversial Proud Boys Embrace 'Western Values,' Reject Feminism And Political Correctness". Wisconsin Public Radio. 26 November 2017.
  72. ↑ "Inside Rebel Media". National Post. 16 August 2018.
  73. ↑ "Gavin McInnes: 'Nazis Are Not A Thing. Islam Is A Thing'". Right Wing Watch. 18 August 2017.
  74. ↑ "Proud Boys". Southern Poverty Law Center.
  75. ↑ "37 Organizations and a Regional Organization Representing Over 50 Tribes Denounce Bigotry and Violence before Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys Rally in Portland on August 4". The Skanner. 3 August 2018.
  76. ↑ Sutton, Scott (15 May 2015). "Gavin McInnes might be the most sexist man on the planet". National. Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18.
  77. ↑ Bonk, Lawrence (20 May 2015). "Gavin McInnes Explains 'Sexist' Comments That Ruffled Feathers...By Totally Doubling Down on Them". Independent Journal Review.
  78. ↑ Marcotte, Amanda (16 March 2017). "Bad boy gone worse: Is Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes flirting with a dangerous fringe?". Salon (website).
  79. ↑ Davies, Madeleine (22 October 2013). "Vice Co-Founder Throws Epic Tantrum About Women Defying Gender Roles". Jezebel (website).
  80. ↑ "Vice Co-Founder Gavin McInnes on Trolling Feminists: I'm Not Andy Kaufman; This Isn't a Joke". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  81. ↑ Marcotte, Amanda (31 October 2013). "Most Women Work Because They Have To". Slate.com.
  82. ↑ "Gavin McInnes: 'Feminism has Made Women Less Happy'". ABC News. 22 October 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  83. ↑ Buxton, Ryan (21 October 2013). "Gavin McInnes Launches Expletive-Laden Tirade About Women In The Workplace (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  84. ↑ Ciara LaVelle (24 October 2013). "UM Law Professor Mary Anne Franks Issues Epic Feminist Beatdown on Vice Founder Gavin McInnes". Miami New Times. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
  85. ↑ "Neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and internet trolls: who's who in the far right". The Guardian. August 17, 2017.
  86. ↑ "Do You Want Bigots, Gavin? Because This Is How You Get Bigots". Southern Poverty Law Center.
  87. ↑ "How Hate Goes 'Mainstream': Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys". Rewire.News. August 28, 2017.
  88. ↑ "Proud Boy lawyer demands alt-weeklies not call "western chauvinist fraternity" alt-right". Baltimore City Paper. October 25, 2017.
  89. ↑ ""Proud Boys" Founder Wants to "Trigger the Entire State of Oregon" by Helping Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson win the Oregon Person of the Year Poll (Updated)". The Portland Mercury. December 12, 2017.
  90. ↑ "With Trump's South Africa tweet, Tucker Carlson has turned a white nationalist narrative into White House policy". Media Matters. 23 August 2018.
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