Somehow the Proud Boys are still
a thing and they're actually
keeping busy getting involved in
a bunch of different activities
over the past few months.
They've forged ties with
anti-vaxxers in LA, provided
security to evangelicals outside of
Planned Parenthood in Salem,
Oregon, and
joined Cuban protesters in Miami.
Their attempt to insert themselves
into the discussion over critical
race theory in Nashua though,
is just the latest example of this.
So this is New Hampshire, a second
largest city, and it's become one
of the focal points for the
nationwide culture war fight over
issues like school mask mandates,
a bunch of stuff involving police.
But what we want to focus on
is how they're getting involved in
the conversation around critical
race theory, which isn't taught at
any of the schools that
they're protesting at, but
they're not going to accept that.
And now seemingly there's nothing
about the sort of founding
philosophy of the Proud Boys that
would lead them to be razor focused
on stopping kids from getting a
historically accurate accounting of
systemic bias in the US government
or economy or anything like that.
But they are getting
involved in it.
So let's see, we have local
activist posting photos of
the group loitering by a school
building in Nashua, holding flags,
flashing the OK sign that
totally isn't a thing about racism,
carrying sign saying things like
Marxism has no home here.
After a solitary Proud Boy showed
up earlier this week and
raised alarm bells, the local BLM
called on community members to
rally at the next meeting.
On Wednesday,
about a dozen Proud Boys,
joined by anti-maskers, showed up.
So look, I think that we all get
over the past few months that this
really doesn't have much to do with
kids or their education.
But when you're randomly having a
protest about critical race theory
at schools that don't teach it.
Where are the reinforcements
you get our anti-maskers,
is any of this really about any
particular issue any more than like
the Tea Party was supposedly about
debt and in practice how had
nothing to do with that?
This just feels like a whole bunch
of jumbled up.
I don't like anything
that's going on.
We gotta find something to get
people fired up about.
We're going to offer no
solutions to actual problems.
So I guess it's something about
race or something about freedom,
something vague to help them
organize.
That's what it feels like.
>> Yeah, no but there's so
many amazing parts of this.
First of all, if somebody said to
me, let's go protest at a school
because they're teaching fill in
the blank racism it let's be more
specific anti-Muslim hate, right?
And I said,
okay, my god did that's bad.
Okay, so let's go protest
there, right?
And they're like, by the way,
they're not actually teaching that.
Right, wait, why are we going that?
[LAUGH] >> For the right wing,
they're like, no problem.
Who cares?
They're not actually teaching
critical race theory.
Let's go do it anyway.
And then the second thing I ask is,
hey, are your kids in high school?
No, just a random school.
>> I don't live in the state.
>> But wait, why are you going to
school board meeting if your kids
don't go to that school?
Going to protests critical race
theory, which they don't teach.
But for the right wing all of this
has become normal, intelligence is
not required, right?
And so and then the third part
of it is the mask.
So now everybody's got mask as
coronavirus, ironic with this.
I love this part of the story.
I love this.
Oftentimes, they go to places to
support anti-mask activities.
They all had mask going to protest
the school and sunglasses.
You know why?
because they didn't want to be
identified.
>> Yeah.
>> Because they know
they're racist.
And they might get fired from their
jobs for being racist.
Especially if they're
cops by the way.
And so I don't know if they are,
I'm just saying that's could
be a problem for them.
So they cover up all their face.
And they got all mask like crazy.
Wait, wait what?
Okay, and of course the reason
they're covering their faces the
same reason they've been covering
their face for hundreds of years.
They didn't wear the robes because
they liked white.
Okay, well, partly.
[LAUGH] They weren't because they
were worried about consequences or
embarrassed at
how racist they were.
That was the Klan even back then
they were a little
embarrassed by it.
And that's and
now the client is back, but
it was different colors.
>> First of all, these Proud Boys,
where did they find the time to
show up but all these places
you just said they have jobs.
I thought maybe they
don't have jobs.
Because I am a father, I work,
I'm married, I can't even enjoy it.
I don't have time to join
a softball team, much less
a racist, homophobic organization.
If I were to tell my wife hey babe,
we're going to go protest
progressive issues for
people of color.
And we're going to go
protest gay people.
We're going to go protest
everything. That's good.
I'll see you later tonight.
My wife would be like you're
doing what?
Have you fixed the toilet?
It's leaking.
You got to fix the toilet first.
Have you washed the dishes?
Did you walk the dog?
Did you tutor your kids on their
homework?
Where are you finding the time to
go out and
protest at the wrong school?
It's the wrong school.
You damn stupid idiots.
Do some research.
There's no research involved
anymore Cenk.
I'm getting messages from my
Conservative friends this guy sends
all of his research from someone's
Facebook page.
I don't know who the person is.
He quotes this person.
He sent me something saying in
England they're now no longer
mentioning the Holocaust because
they don't want to offend Muslims,
I got what?
I just googled it.
It turns out in 2007 somebody
started the stupid rumor to go
against Muslims.
I go dude, did you Google what
you just send me?
Or you just sending it?
So these Proud Boys should Google
first of all, just go on Google and
be like does this school teach
critical race theory because I'm
going to go protest it, number one.
Number two, the thing with critical
race theory, what kind of world
do we live in where people
are afraid of the full story?
It's like having your mom
date somebody who's abusive, but
he's great at magic.
You're like,
he's just a great magician.
Yeah, pretty beats,
pretty beats mom.
You're like,
have you seen his card tricks?
He beats your father, yeah, but
the card tricks.
Don't say what I'm saying,
that's what people aren't.
They don't want
to hear the full story of what we
did as Americans, amen.
And nobody is in school by the way,
this always they say this to go,
they're going to be telling white
kids, this is your fault.
I don't think there's any teacher
who's looking at raw gold
like chips stand up for a second,
you caused all this.
I mean, what kind of teachers do
that if that if a teacher is
doing that, then that teacher will
get fired, all right?
And I'm telling you, these people
are out of their minds.
We all know that.
And I hope they have spouses that
starts to catch on to the fact that
these guys are going to
these stupid rallies.
And they're going, dude,
I can't do this anymore.
You need to go,
just get out of my life.
I mean, they need to really see
the consequences.
They need to start losing loved
ones because people right
they can't all be as stupid
as the actual Proud Boy.
There's got to be somebody smart in
the family.
I'm thinking, I don't know, but
maybe I'm being a bit hopeful here,
wishful thinking.
>> Okay boss, you kill me brother.
[LAUGH] >> Have you seen
his card trick?
[LAUGH] >> And
then the I love the idea of, honey,
I don't have time to tutor the kid.
I'm going to go protest some other
kid's school.
Is there any wife that would let
you get away with that?
That's crazy.
Okay, now on a serious note,
some of the Republican states,
a lot of Republican states have
already passed this law.
It's an actual law that says, you
are not allowed to tell people that
they are responsible for everything
because of their ethnicity.
Mission accomplished,
nobody's saying that.
In fact, if they said white people
are responsible for everything,
Timmy, you're responsible for
everything.
We would be against that because
that would be racist.
We're against racism, okay?
That's not what it's saying at all,
it's just saying yes other than
the card trick.
Yeah, we did racism in this
country, right?
We did have slavery.
These are historical facts.
So since and guys the reason I
mentioned that nobody teaches
critical race theory.
Is that that's not their specific,
that's not their actual ask.
Their actual ask is we don't want
to teach that America
was ever racist.
Well, that's like saying I
don't want you to teach history.
I mean, did we or
did we not have slavery?
Of course, was it based on racism?
Of course, was it vicious?
Of course, right?
No, freedom of speech except
the things that are true.
Okay, and
then finally, they're Proud Boys.
That's why they
cover up their faces.
[LAUGH] >> You sure you're proud?
Because it doesn't look like you're
proud, okay?
>> By the way, one last thing real
quickly if they're
afraid of Timmy being blamed for
all of America's fault.
As an Iranian American,
I'll tell you, I've experienced it.
Tell Timmy to call me.
I'll tell you what it's like to
have nothing to do with
the something when the hostage
crisis happened.
And they were blaming me in
Northern California.
I'm just trying to play kickball.
They're like,
the hostage crisis of like,
I'm eight years old.
I didn't do anything.
Tell Timmy to call me,
I can console him.