Irish Proud Boys Try to Hide It, But They’re Just as Racist as Their US Counterparts

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  1. After someone requests to join, the group’s head of security, known as the sergeant-at-arms, runs a background check, and if there are no red flags, the person is added to an online Telegram group where they wait in limbo and chat with other Irish Proud Boy hopefuls.

    “That lasts for six months,” Frank said. “Then they are offered a prospect position at the club where they can take their first degree… which lasts for a year. Then a vote is taken on them on whether they are offered a 2nd degree or not. So all in all, the process to become a voting member can take about 18 months to two years.”

    That made me laugh, sergeant-at-arms.

  2. The founder of The Proud Boys was also a founder of Vice

    This is also interesting:

    > “Proud Boys Eire was so anti-UK that it went nowhere fast, and devolved into a full IRA love fest,” said Frank.

    > But in 2018 the group reassembled, this time as a sub-chapter of the Proud Boys Britannia group

  3. >Yes, we post some spicy shit, but offense is taken, not given. If a picture or meme upsets a person, they need to look at themselves. The world’s a shitty place

    what a fucking clown.

  4. Pure cringe with their 4chan buzzwords and memes.

    Reminds me of last year when the master brewer / co-founder for the Sligo beer company The White Hag unveiled himself to be a big Proud Boys nut.

    The company had to go into damage control and get rid of him because he was dragging the company into his nutty conspiracy rants. (“Only real patriots drink White Hag” or some shite like that)

  5. Remember when their founder shoved a dildo up his hole live on camera in a forever inexplicable attempt to own the libs.

  6. “I am a western chauvinist, and I refuse to apologise for creating the modern world” Jesus wept. What did these lads ever create?

  7. Anyone born and raised here that forms or joins an imported Yank ‘gang’ – Proud Boys or Hells Angels or whatever – is a sad sack of shit that would want to take a good look at themselves. Not that they will, because the first requirement for entry into these homoerotic fanfic clubs is to be a knuckle-dragger with no self-awareness who only gets validation from other guys LARPing as warriors or some shit.

  8. “In 2018 the group reassembled, this time as a sub-chapter of the Proud Boys Britannia group”…. “there are roughly 30 solid guys” ….. what an irrelevant “group” and wildly unrepresentative of the general mood of the country. Ever so slightly worrying maybe, that any of this makes sense to even a few people.

    “There are too many other militant white supremacist types here in Ireland for the Proud Boys to gain any traction” I must be getting old, but this statement makes no sense to me. This article and the “group” give me a pain in the head.

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