Summary of Andy B. Campbell's We Are Proud Boys

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview:

#1 I hate politicians, I hate the media, I hate comedy, and I hate cucks (or cuckold). The Proud Boys are men who love me. Gavin McInnes loves two things: hating black people and mocking women. He loves America, but hates what it has become. He is a reactionary who’s always been against—and he hates losing power. The Proud Boys at one point had a song about McInnes: I’m Gavin McInnes and I’m proud to have a phallus. The Proud Boys are a loose-knit group of men who identify with McInnes’ politics, and they have their own website, the ProudBoys. com forum, and regular meetups around the nation. They’ve become perhaps the most controversial political movement in half a decade—one that sees its members arrested on a regular basis at protests, rioters, and clashes with Antifa (the so-called antifascist). -> The origins of the Proud Boys can be traced back to one reactionary bigot behind a microphone who hated a child he figured was a fatherless Puerto Rican.

#2 The Proud Boys are a group of men who identify with McInnes’ politics, and they have their own website and meetups.

#3 In the 1990s, McInnes began to look at his own brand of counterculture as a business venture. He started a zine in Montreal about his life experiences, which was widely panned by local critics but became infamous after he sent a series of threatening letters splattered in his own blood to the writers who gave him negative reviews.

#4 A group of men who identify with McInnes’ politics have their own website and meetups. They’ve become perhaps the most controversial political movement in half a decade.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350032024

IRB Media

With IRB books, you can get the key takeaways and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.

Book preview

Insights on Andy B. Campbell's We Are Proud Boys

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Proud Boys name originates from the musical number Proud of Your Boy from the Broadway musical Aladdin, which McInnes watched as a twelve-year-old with his wife. He hated it, and the phrase proud of your boy became a running gag on his show.

#2

McInnes is a comedy talk show host, and his show resembles The Howard Stern Show in how it pokes fun at guests and plays to its audience’s base instincts. But behind the scenes, McInnes is building a movement, and he wants his followers to know it.

#3

McInnes built himself into a character, the last of a dying breed of free and proud Western patriots, and sold it to an audience of angry and anxious men. He told them that their masculinity and patriotism were under attack, and that they should fight back.

#4

In 1994, the trio rebranded the magazine into Vice, a national lifestyle and counterculture rag that they gave out for free at record stores and streetwear shops. It was sleazy and apathetic, and it was immediately popular among young people in Montreal.

#5

McInnes’s career continued to flourish after his departure from Vice. He helped build a brand that young people liked, and now he was back on the market. There was still an audience for his hypermasculine trash, and he set out to capture it.

#6

McInnes began his comeback by launching a show on