Daily News | Proud Boys’ only ‘idea’ is violence. Penn State is wrong to give its leader a platform.
The lack of daylight between McInnes and the Proud Boys organization means that Penn State is platforming a fascist-style, increasingly paramilitary type group that criminal investigations are showing was deeply tied to the idea of a violent coup against the U.S. government — certainly on Jan. 6, if not today.
I reached out to the Philadelphia political activist Gwen Snyder, a leading researcher of right-wing, antidemocratic involvement in political activity here in the city and elsewhere. For her work in highlighting the Proud Boys’ activities, group members chose to “” with Snyder over the years by visiting her home, badgering her neighbors, putting up Proud Boys’ stickers outside her home, and finally posting her photo online with the threat that she was “done in Philly.
Exactly. What’s more, it’s hard not to think that McInnes and his allies didn’t choose both their location — State College, on a campus surrounded by the counties that went so heavily for Trump in the last two elections — and the timing with the idea not of winning converts through their “humor,” but with the hope of fomenting even more violence. That would be an awful stain on the Penn State community.
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