nov 7, 2017 - Alt-right figure Lauren Southern

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Brendan Joel Kelley
​Fliers began appearing on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus in late October featuring the school’s mascot, Goldy Gopher, wearing a sweatshirt with an anti-fascist symbol and hoisting a flag with a crossed-out swastika —“Punch a Nazi? Gopher it!” the flyer read, advertising a “Rally against alt-right hate” on Wednesday, October 25.....


Like the Proud Boys, Southern claims to reject racism while embracing the supposedly palatable elements of the so-called “alt-light,” offering observations like “Black people are convinced by the media that they’re living in a system where everything white people do is trying to oppress them,” as she told a Vice reporter early this year.

Southern is a one-time Libertarian candidate for Canadian Parliament and former writer for Canada’s alt-right media hub, The Rebel, and a self-published author, who’s glommed on to the extremist right scene in her home country’s southern neighbor and found internet fame and controversy while becoming the movement’s white, blonde goddess of the moment (since Taylor Swift never returned the neo-Nazis’ affections).

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