“Fags,” was another response, from “Can’t stand gay people.should be illegal.” “ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?” wrote one user, in reply to the screenshot. Enrique Tarrio, the Proud Boys’ chairman, said in a separate Parler post that the left was attempting to turn the group’s name into “a slur” and that the gay pride campaign with #proudboys was an attempt “to drown out the voices of our supporters.”Ī screenshot posted on Parler of the tweet from the Canadian Armed Forces in the United States received some of the strongest reaction and was widely shared on Parler. Much of the action was carried out by the Proud Boys’ official account on the app, which has 60,000 followers. The Proud Boys took none too kindly to this, filling up Parler with the type of hateful messages that got them kicked off Twitter in the first place. And it’s their absence on Twitter-the result of toxic and abusive language-that allowed the gay activists to seize control of #proudboys on Sunday. The Proud Boys have no official presence on Twitter since the social media site banned them in 2018, so they have spent the last few days in gleeful celebration over their newfound, Trump-fueled fame on Parler, a two-year-old social media app popular among conservatives.
