Gavin McInnes, who co-founded VICE Media but split from the company in 2008, went on to establish the ‘Proud Boys’ in 2016 - a men's rights organisation that has since been labelled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre.
Since then, the men’s rights group/fight club has spread to Canada, the United Kingdom and here in Australia.
The Proud Boys say they’re fighting - quite literally - for a ‘return to western values’.
There are four stages to becoming a Proud Boy:
A loyalty oath, being beat up until you can name five breakfast cereals and promise to quit masturbation, the proud boy tattoo and lastly, getting into a major brawl.
Twitter suspended McInnes and the group from the platform in August saying:
These accounts have been suspended from Twitter and Periscope for violating our policy prohibiting violent extremist groups,
The Proud Boys leader is due to give a speaking tour across the country next month. He’s being brought out by Penthouse magazine boss Damien Costas the promoter behind ‘Mr Brexit’ Nigel Farage and alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos.
Nyadol Nyuon started the change.org petition to stop McInnes entering Australia.
More than 30,000 people have signed an online petition calling on the immigration minister to ban him from entering Australia.
So how far would McInnes’ have to go to be denied entry into Australia?
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