It was nearly 70 degrees F and cloudy in Montgomery, AL this afternoon, when Gavin McInnes — one of the founders of Vice, and more recently the founder of the violent right-wing extremist group the Proud Boys — walked up to a small PA system in front of the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and began to speak about how the legal advocacy nonprofit had ruined his life. “It’s a dangerous precedent to set. Because what they do is, they cast this wide net of ‘everyone’s a Nazi’ and they start destroying lives,” McInnes said, after accusing the anti-hate group of changing their mission after raising money to expand their operations. “In a way, the SPLC is terrorizing people by telling them we live in Nazi America.”
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