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The group's existence was announced in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Magazine. Meetings, McInnes
wrote, "usually consist of drinking, fighting, and reading aloud from Pat Buchanan's Death of the West".
Proud Boy founder Gavin McInnes Getty Images
The Proud Boy initiation rituals are both bizarre and overtly political. In order to be accepted into the first level of the group, men - the group is only open to biological males - must recite: "I am a Western chauvinist and I refuse to apologise for creating the modern world."
The second degree involves getting hit by fellow members while shouting out the names of five breakfast cereals, along with committing to avoid porn and masturbation - the group says they erode traditional relationships. To progress to the third degree, members get a Proud Boy tattoo.
There's also an honorary fourth degree. Various Proud Boys told me that it is bestowed for defending the group, fighting anti-fascists in the streets or getting arrested.
Rob is a third-degree Proud Boy. He credits the group with giving him confidence with women and a new sense of purpose. But it's also caused friction in his family.
"My mom gave me grief," he says, "my liberal brother gave me grief."
Rob shows me around the cannabis farm where he worked the previous summer, amid trees and rolling hills. But now that the harvest is over, he's scraping by on a monthly $900 disability cheque - even though the one of the stated goals of the Proud Boys is to end all welfare.
When we meet Rob's been sleeping in his car, with his cat, its litter box, and most of his other possessions.
The marijuana farm in southern Oregon where Proud Boy Rob works
"We're trying to save the way of life that is freedom," he says, "and not let it turn into some oppressive commie nation."
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The Proud Boys don't seem to understand yet that the more misguided violence they provoke with their racist hate
antics the more oppressive their country will become. And that however they feel they have been unfairly
treated by their mothers, or by whomever, their racist bullshit will only make their situation worse.
One positive in the story was the mention that Rob had resigned from the Proud Boys.
The group's existence was announced in 2016 by Gavin McInnes, a co-founder of Vice Magazine. Meetings, McInnes
wrote, "usually consist of drinking, fighting, and reading aloud from Pat Buchanan's Death of the West".
Proud Boy founder Gavin McInnes Getty Images
The Proud Boy initiation rituals are both bizarre and overtly political. In order to be accepted into the first level of the group, men - the group is only open to biological males - must recite: "I am a Western chauvinist and I refuse to apologise for creating the modern world."
The second degree involves getting hit by fellow members while shouting out the names of five breakfast cereals, along with committing to avoid porn and masturbation - the group says they erode traditional relationships. To progress to the third degree, members get a Proud Boy tattoo.
There's also an honorary fourth degree. Various Proud Boys told me that it is bestowed for defending the group, fighting anti-fascists in the streets or getting arrested.
Rob is a third-degree Proud Boy. He credits the group with giving him confidence with women and a new sense of purpose. But it's also caused friction in his family.
"My mom gave me grief," he says, "my liberal brother gave me grief."
Rob shows me around the cannabis farm where he worked the previous summer, amid trees and rolling hills. But now that the harvest is over, he's scraping by on a monthly $900 disability cheque - even though the one of the stated goals of the Proud Boys is to end all welfare.
When we meet Rob's been sleeping in his car, with his cat, its litter box, and most of his other possessions.
The marijuana farm in southern Oregon where Proud Boy Rob works
"We're trying to save the way of life that is freedom," he says, "and not let it turn into some oppressive commie nation."
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-47332054
The Proud Boys don't seem to understand yet that the more misguided violence they provoke with their racist hate
antics the more oppressive their country will become. And that however they feel they have been unfairly
treated by their mothers, or by whomever, their racist bullshit will only make their situation worse.
One positive in the story was the mention that Rob had resigned from the Proud Boys.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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