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Personally, I stopped giving attention to Vice news after learning their founder was a white supremacist. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes#Views

He was one of 3 founders of "Voice of Montreal" in 1994 and was bought out in 1996, when it was renamed Vice. That's...pretty freakin' distant a relationship to object to.

From the Wikipedia article on Vice, at least (and this is all linked to sources), the cofounders -- including McInnes -- bought it back in 2001, and he was actually with them until he left in 2008 due to "creative differences," which I (and others) read as Vice retooling themselves into a more serious news organization while McInnes was retooling himself into an alt-right leader.

Having said that, though, Vice has a pretty clear political slant, and alt-right is definitely not it. So I'm in hard agreement with your conclusion -- I mean, if you object to white supremacist co-founders, Vice kicking theirs out and cutting ties with him would kinda be a net positive, right?

Fair point; I forgot about that. Still, yes, point still stands. They're clearly not alt-right, nor supportive of alt-right causes, nor benefiting alt-righters except the most indirectly (i.e., shareholders/employees, same as any business).

Wikipedia has him leaving in 2008, what am I missing?

I don't know if he still has ownership.

When in doubt, I'd rather not fund this.

I think he has been firmly dissociated in recent years, especially when he went on Fox or CNN and told one of the other panelists who happened to be female that she’d be much happier in the kitchen

That still doesn't answer my questions. He might have nothing to say in the business, allegedly, but might still reap dividends from it.

You're going to have to boycott a whole hell of a lot of businesses if that's the standard. Not saying you'd be wrong to do it, just... godspeed.

Ship of Theseus[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

I recommend Pravda.

Do you genuinely think these weird litmus tests about irrelevant history trivia accomplishes anything? Or between us, is this just a signaling thing.

My first reaction was maybe it's supposed to be satirical of what the commenter thinks "liberals" are like?

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