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Behind the Aegis

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Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:24 AM Nov 2020

(Jewish Group) A Proud Boys leader is rebranding the group as explicitly anti-Semitic and...

A Proud Boys leader is trying to rebrand the group as explicitly white supremacist and anti-Semitic

One of the leaders of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate, is trying to rebrand the organization as explicitly white supremacist and anti-Semitic.

Kyle Chapman, the founder of a “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys known for engaging in street violence, claimed in a message on the encrypted chat app Telegram that he has staged a “coup” against the current leader of the Proud Boys — a Black man named Enrique Tarrio.

“We will confront the Zionist criminals who wish to destroy our civilization,” Chapman wrote after using other bigoted language. “We recognize that the West was built by the White Race alone and we owe nothing to any other race.”

Chapman also wrote that he has renamed the group the Proud Goys, referring to the Jewish term for non-Jews that neo-Nazis have tried to appropriate and use to symbolize their anti-Semitism.

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Interesting, his choice of words for Jews; I am sure he didn't mean "all Jews", of course. Isn't that the standard?

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(Jewish Group) A Proud Boys leader is rebranding the group as explicitly anti-Semitic and... (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Nov 2020 OP
Oh this should get interesting. Will the infighting cause them to implode? I sure hope so tulipsandroses Nov 2020 #1
Let's sit back and watch the rest of PBs reject him. Grokenstein Nov 2020 #2
Chapman staged a "coup"? I thought Nazis called it a "putsch." sop Nov 2020 #3
is Proud Boys leader a person of color? Afro-Cuban? keithbvadu2 Nov 2020 #4

tulipsandroses

(5,122 posts)
1. Oh this should get interesting. Will the infighting cause them to implode? I sure hope so
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:04 AM
Nov 2020

Did Enrique think that he was going to be loved forever as as an Afro Cuban in a white supremacist world? He provided cover for them to say, no we are not a racist group. They have no problem declaring themselves as such now it seems.


keithbvadu2

(36,769 posts)
4. is Proud Boys leader a person of color? Afro-Cuban?
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:53 PM
Nov 2020
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212402180#post10

is Proud Boys leader a person of color? Afro-Cuban?

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214529994

Civil war brewing inside Proud Boys as top leader says he's done pretending he isn't a Nazi

“Due to the recent failure of Proud Boy Chairman Enrique Tarrio to conduct himself with honor and courage on the battlefield, it has been decided that I Kyle Chapman reassume my post as President of Proud Boys effective immediately,” Chapman wrote. “We will no longer cuck to the left by appointing token negroes as our leaders. We will no longer allow homosexuals or other ‘undesirables’ into our ranks. We will confront the Zionist criminals who wish to destroy our civilization.”
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