Proud Boys' McInnes Hates No-Hate Signs In Hometown

LARCHMONT, NY — Where does one go after a hard day fomenting racial animus and fighting Antifa? For Gavin McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, some of whom were charged with assault and rioting for attacking protesters in Manhattan in October, it could be a fairly quick Metro-North ride to Larchmont, the upscale New York City suburb on the Long Island Sound.

Now, some of McInnes' neighbors have begun dotting the lawns near his home with signs that read "Hate Has No Home Here."

McInnes, who describes himself in a letter to his neighbors as a "businessman and humorist, and as a political and social commentator," takes issue with the signs and wants them removed, the Daily Beast said.

McInnes co-founded Vice Media and is now known for spouting anti-Muslim and misogynistic beliefs on his podcast "Get Off My Lawn."

He has attempted to distance himself from the Proud Boys after the group was named an extremist group by the FBI in November, the Huffington Post said.

McInnes claims that his neighbors will not find anything in his expressions that anyone could construe as intolerant, hateful, racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic.

According to the Huffington Post, which obtained a copy of McInnes' letter but would not publish it because, HuffPost said, it misrepresents his past actions, McInnes insists that displaying the anti-hate sign, which has a generic message in several different languages, is an attack on him and his family.

He said that if someone considers themselves liberal then loving one's neighbor is where tolerance begins.

However, a recent hour-long "Get Off My Lawn Podcast" by McInnes starts with him saying, "I hate 'Hate Has No Home Here' signs" and continues by saying that the sign is patently false because those who put them up hate the president and that negates the message.

"Why don't you have a sign on your lawn that rape has no home here? That's equally absurd," he said.

And in a tone completely different from the letter he delivered to his neighbors, McInnes said on his podcast, "If you have that sign on your lawn, you're a [expletive] retard," the Huffington Post said.

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Photo: Gavin McInnes takes part in an Alt Right protest of Muslim activist Linda Sarsour on April 25, 2017 in New York City. Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images News/Getty Images.