He quit in 2018, but in 2019 sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for designating the organization a hate group. McInnes left “because of creative differences with his partners,” according to The New York Times. Vice was on its way to becoming a darling of media investors that would, at its likely high-water mark in 2017, be valued at $5.7 billion. We need to close the borders now and let everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life.” An unnamed ex-staffer told The New Yorker “hat was the beginning of the end” of McInnes’ time with Vice.īy the time McInnes left Vice in 2008, the company had invested in creating digital video and gained notoriety for its provocative documentaries.
He was also quoted by the Times saying, “I love being white and I think it’s something to be very proud of. After a letter writing campaign by a Black reader, Vice apologized for McInnes’ comment, The New York Times later reported. In a profanity-laced Q&A with New York Press in 2002, McInnes said he was glad that hipsters in Williamsburg, the Brooklyn neighborhood where Vice is headquartered, were White. McInnes, under aliases, wrote much of the content for Vice in its early days before they had a budget for freelancers, according to a New Yorker profile in 2013. They changed the name to Vice and later moved to New York City and expanded the magazine internationally. According to a profile in The Guardian in 2008, the three took control of the magazine after a falling out with the publisher. McInnes, along with Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi, bought Voice of Montreal, a magazine funded by the Canadian government, in 1994.
But he did co-found the alternative magazine that grew into what Vice Media is today, and he worked at Vice for 14 years. McInnes may not have any affiliation with Vice Media now. The email was first reported by The Wrap. What he did after that - including founding the Proud Boys in 2016 - had nothing to do with VICE, our values or our people.” “While the legacy of his role in founding the company swirls up from time to time - I want you all to be assured that any association he had with the company ended more than a decade ago in 2008. Presidential debate, but I wanted to write to you to make one thing clear: Gavin McInnes has no affiliation with VICE,” Dubuc said in her email, which was obtained by CNN Business. “I’m sure we’re all still trying to make some sense of what was said in last night’s U.S. Wednesday night, one day after President Donald Trump failed to disavow the Proud Boys during a presidential debate, instead telling them to “stand back and stand by,” Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc sent an email to her staff to reassure them that the media company has no current connection with McInnes.
Vice Media is once again working to distance itself from its co-founder, Gavin McInnes, who set much of the tone for the company in its early days before going on to found the Proud Boys, the far-right group whose ideology has been labeled “misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic, and anti-immigration” by the Anti-Defamation League.
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