9/13/2023 0 Comments Post election meltdown“Watch out leftists,” Chapman posted on Sunday. Those words apparently weren’t enough for Chapman, who mocked them on Telegram. “We’re rolling out,” Tarrio posted on Sunday. Shortly after most news outlets declared Joe Biden to have won the race, Tarrio threatened to mobilize the group. The group’s social media pages have relentlessly argued that Trump actually won re-election (he did not) and that Democrats are involved in massive voter fraud (they are not). He subsequently drifted away from a visible leadership role with the Proud Boys, but still posts the group’s propaganda on social media.Īfter Trump’s defeat, however, Chapman and the Proud Boys began acting more erratically online. Like many Proud Boys, he was convicted for violence at these far-right brawls, taking a plea deal related to the brawl that made him famous. The group’s founder, Gavin McInnes, told The New York Times that he’d considered bringing Chapman onboard as the Proud Boys’ new president, but decided instead to put him in charge of the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights, a subgroup intended as the Proud Boys’ paramilitary wing.Īs FOAK leader, Chapman embodied some of the Proud Boys’ bloodiest and most bigoted tendencies, leading brawls, urging fans to “smash on sight,” railing against Muslims, and encouraging the lynching of politicians. But his antics won him the admiration of the group, who set up a fund to pay his bail. At the time, he wasn’t a member of the Proud Boys. Still, his announcement hinted at recent upsets in Proud Boy circles, as well as a bigoted tendency that keeps surfacing among Proud Boys despite the group’s insistence that they’re not racist.Ĭhapman made his fame as “Based Stickman” after he was filmed hitting anti-fascists with a bat during a 2017 demonstration in Berkeley, California. And indeed, Chapman’s standing in the group has fallen since its peak several years ago. (The proposed group’s name, the Proud Goys, was a nod to anti-Semites’ embrace of the word “goy,” which is Yiddish for a non-Jewish person.)Įnrique Tarrio, the current head of the Proud Boys, told The Daily Beast the putsch wasn’t going to succeed. The announcement carried on in racist terms, claiming the organization’s new direction would be more explicitly white supremacist, and (unlike the current group) opposed to gay members. Going forward we will now be known as PROUD GOYS. “Our logo will forthwith be changed to reflect the core beliefs of Proud Boy members. “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,” he wrote on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram.
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