- 29 Oct 2022 19:20
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WE DID IT!
Thanks to you and the thousands of other members who took action, we got Penn State’s planned “Stand Back and Stand By” event, which featured Proud Boys’ founder Gavin McInnes, CANCELLED! We’re proud to stand behind courageous Penn State students who put their own safety at risk to protest the event and fight for what’s right.
The Proud Boys celebrated Trump’s infamously violent instruction to “stand back and stand by,” but most of the country was shocked at the sitting president’s apparent directive for a known white nationalist group to engage in violence on his behalf. Many consider it to be the catalyst for the January 6th insurrection, an attack on our democracy that resulted in the deaths of at least seven people. We know that, when institutional powers indirectly or directly support white nationalists and their dangerous rhetoric, violence is not far behind. Penn State must meet the moment and take steps to permanently ban all those with ties to white nationalist groups from appearing in university-sponsored events.
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