TY - JOUR AU - Tynes, Robert PY - 2021/01/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Gavin McInnes’s hate machine JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 26 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v26i2.11424 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/11424 SP - AB - <p>At first, the Proud Boys were a seemingly innocuous white boys club that sprouted from the banter and riffs of online talk show host, Gavin McInnes. But the far right group grew into a nation-wide white supremacist organization. The group came about, thanks to McInnes and his <em>The Gavin McInnes Show</em> (<em>TGMS</em>). The Proud Boys and Gavin McInnes are a prime case study of the problem of free speech and the Internet. Here we see hate speech hiding behind the protective cloak of free speech. The conundrum becomes: How do we deal with fascist politics in the democratic space of the internet? The study conducts a frame analysis of over 32 hours of <em>TGMS</em>, utilizing Stanley’s (2018) rubric of fascist politics. By analyzing McInnes’s online discourse — his hate machine — we obtain a deeper understanding of how fascist politics gently slides into the mainstream and becomes a threat to peaceful political action.</p> ER -