Oct. 28, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
06:56
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| All right, everybody, Dennis Prager here. | |
| Speaking to the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio. | |
| So, in a nutshell, I mean, you said you were, the Proud Boys were essentially guys who get together and drink and cuss and et cetera, et cetera. | |
| But what do you stand for? | |
| So, what we simply stand for, it's very easy. | |
| We are a group that is very pro-family, and the way that we promote that is we want to make better men, right? | |
| Whether that means make better brothers, make better husbands, make better fathers. | |
| A statistic that I bring up is, you know, mass shootings are horrible. | |
| And 23 of the past 26 mass shootings have something in common, and it's not what the Democrats have been preaching about. | |
| How they acquired a gun or background checks or anything, 23 of the past 26 mass shooters come from fatherless homes. | |
| It's a cultural problem that you can't legislate your way out of. | |
| So what we do is we promote masculinity is what we do. | |
| We promote the family. | |
| So that's our main purpose. | |
| Now we have members, we have across the world, we have 22,000 members, probably more now after... | |
| Joe Biden's advertisement on the first debate. | |
| But we could stretch ourselves in many different directions, whether it's on the legislative side. | |
| We have Proud Boys that are running for Congress. | |
| We have Proud Boys that are pastors. | |
| I'm currently right in front of the White House. | |
| We do things that typically you don't think conservatives do. | |
| Lafayette Park has been riddled with these BLM signs and last night I came in here with Bevelyn Beattie and we took down all those BLM signs. | |
| This is the first time in six months that you're able to see the front of the White House. | |
| We've essentially just cleaned it all up and I'm watching people right now taking pictures in front of the White House and I'm very happy that we did so. | |
| Like I said, we're a Swiss army knife of politics. | |
| So you are known for showing up where there are BLM protests, or riots for that matter. | |
| And the purpose of your showing up is what? | |
| Well, no, we don't show up. | |
| We didn't show up in any BLM protests when it came to the George Floyd riots. | |
| We actually stayed clear of them. | |
| We actually stayed clear of even Antifa events. | |
| We host our own events. | |
| We throw pretty good rallies. | |
| We did two end domestic terrorism rallies in Portland, and we stayed very far away from the city center, which is the epicenter of what I think where all these riots initially came from, where we see the mayor and the governor do absolutely nothing while their city burns. | |
| To us, and I think to many Americans, the act of violence for political gain is what terrorism is. | |
| And we protest against that. | |
| We protest against censorship of conservatives on these digital platforms. | |
| There's many things that we do, but those are the two focuses I guess right now. | |
| Do you have a website? | |
| Yes. | |
| Proudboysusa.com, and then I run the 1776.shop, which is our merchandise store also, where people can see what the Proud Boys are about. | |
| We have no donation links. | |
| You cannot donate to the Proud Boys, and that's something that we're always going to hold. | |
| We do things out of love, and we don't want to involve anything that has to do with donations to our organization. | |
| So this is interesting. | |
| I just put in, during the break, I put in Google Proud Boys website. | |
| You won't find it. | |
| Right. | |
| I get Proud Boys Wikipedia, which already in the first sentence calls you neo-fascist. | |
| Then I get the hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a bona fide left-wing hate group. | |
| By the way, so I looked even at what the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Group described, and so listen to this. | |
| This is how it begins. | |
| Their disavowals of bigotry are belied by their actions, rank-and-file, proud boys, and leaders regularly spout white nationalist memes. | |
| So I... I looked for what your white nationalist memes are, and I clicked on the word white nationalist, which is a URL. You know, it's underlined. | |
| And all I get is another Southern Poverty Law Center website or page about white nationalism. | |
| It's not about you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Alright, so here's an example. | |
| Okay, so they go down and they quote Gavin McGinnis a lot. | |
| Is he still with you? | |
| No, he's a good friend of mine, but he's no longer with the organization. | |
| He actually stepped down because of our guys being arrested in New York City and going to trial without facing their accuser. | |
| But he stepped down because of that. | |
| But Gavin's still a good friend of mine. | |
| I still watch his show. | |
| Still help him where I could. | |
| He helps me out when he could, but no, he's not part of the organization currently. | |
| All right, so here's a comment that they're all... | |
| All the examples of the haters seem to be attributed, none of them to you. | |
| They're all to Gavin McGinnis. | |
| And so here's an example. | |
| I'm not a fan of Islam. | |
| I think it's fair to call me Islamophobic. | |
| So why is that racist? | |
| I mean, it may be wrong. | |
| It may be a whole host of things, but Islam is not a race. | |
| But it's not a white nationalist issue. | |
| All right. | |
| Anyway, listen, I'd like to talk to you again. | |
| At least I wanted to make acquaintance with you and have my listeners know more about Proud Boys. |
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