Gavin McInnes (/məˈkɪnɪs/; kelahiran 1970) adalah seorang penulis Inggris-Kanada dan komentator politik kanan jauh yang dikenal karena mempromosikan kekerasan terhadap para lawan politik.[1][2][3] Lahir di Hitchin, Inggris, McInnes berimigasi ke Kanada pada masa muda, sebelum pindah ke Amerika Serikat untuk menjalankan kiprah politiknya. Ia memegang kewarganegaraan Kanada dan Inggris.[4] Ia adalah salah satu pendiri Vice Media dan majalah Vice,[5][6][7] dan pemandu acara Get Off My Lawn, dulunya Conservative Review Television. Ia adalah kontributor Taki's Magazine dan mantan kontributor The Rebel Media, dan tamu tetap di acara-acara televisi Fox News dan TheBlaze.[8]
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^"Why are the Proud Boys so violent? Ask Gavin McInnes". Hatewatch (dalam bahasa Inggris). Southern Poverty Law Center. 18 October 2018. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2019-09-23. Diakses tanggal 23 September 2019. McInnes has a well documented and long-running record of blatantly promoting violence and making threats. “We will kill you. That’s the Proud Boys in a nutshell. We will kill you,” he said on his Compound Media show in mid-2016. His followers often repeat his calls for violence and seemed especially emboldened this past summer as they participated in a number of large-scale “free speech” rallies across the country.
^Coaston, Jane (15 October 2018). "The Proud Boys, the bizarre far-right street fighters behind violence in New York, explained". Vox (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2018-10-17. Diakses tanggal 23 September 2019. It’s that violence that the Proud Boys have become best known for, with the group even boasting of a “tactical defensive arm” known as the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (or “FOAK”) reportedly with McInnes’s backing. McInnes made a video praising the use of violence this June, saying, “What’s the matter with fighting? Fighting solves everything. The war on fighting is the same as the war on masculinity.”
