Welcome to Snapper Fridays, a new column at L.A. Taco suggested by L.A. Taco member Julio Trejo. In this emerging column, we make an exception to our generally positive posts and call things out for the greater good. For our second installment, our contributor snaps back at the Los Angeles Magazine profile of Gavin McInnes, the founder of the “anti-white guilt” group: Proud Boys.

I’m not just coming for the writer of this vile article that attempts to humanize the alt-right trash bag, Gavin McInnes. I’m coming after the whole publication and every editor and higher up that looked at this dumpster fire and thought: “Hmm, this is fine and acceptable.” Hell, I might even be coming for the social media editor that tweeted this ratioed tweet.

Gavin McInnes’s disdain for PC culture helped turn Vice into a media colossus—two decades later, it’s made him a virtual pariah. Inside his rise as the clown prince of the far right https://t.co/wSVtzveBnO pic.twitter.com/aN2bRId6iy — Los Angeles Magazine (@LAmag) October 3, 2019

Last month, a gunman open fired in a Texas shopping center with the intent of killing as many people of color as possible. Migrant children have been dying in concentration camps at the border due to filthy conditions. Migrants have been left in horrific conditions and told to drink out of toilets. We have a president that wants border agents to shoot folks at the border and install a border wall with electrical wires and sharp points to “cut flesh” complete with a snake-filled moat. In other words, systemic white supremacist violence.

And still, Los Angeles Magazine chooses to profile alt-right [neo-nazi] provocateur Gavin McInnes. Not someone fighting for migrants at the border, not civil rights defenders, not even people who work to rehabilitate white supremacists like Gavin.

I shouldn’t have to tell a news outlet to not give a man who has been notoriously associated with racism, misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, transphobia, and homophobia a platform, much less humanize their advocates and depict them as social ‘pariahs.’ Yet alone, try to charm us with the tired ‘sensitive bad boy’ bullshit.

Los Angeles, the city this magazine insists it represents is nearly 50 percent Latinx, eight percent Black, and 12 percent Asian American. Spoiler alert, as seasoned reporter Dennis Romero pointed out in his tweet, LA Magazine’s new editor, Maer Roshan, comes from New York’s magazine scene.

I shouldn’t have to tell a news outlet to not give a man who has been notoriously associated with racism, misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, transphobia, and homophobia, a platform—much less humanize advocates of that hate and depict them as social “pariahs.” Let alone, try to charm us with the tired “sensitive bad boy” bullshit.

Gavin McInnes is a rich man valued at 10 million dollars and is hardly being ostracized. In fact, his ideology is right at home with a white pride xenophobe conference happening right here in LA.

McInnes is both the co-founder of Vice Media and the founder of the Proud Boys hate group, known for being violent, and promoting misogynistic, racist and xenophobic views. We caught them slipping in our hometown last year. McInnes himself is no stranger to using his media presence to share his dangerous beliefs. He already has a huge platform. There is absolutely no need to amplify him more.

The sheer amount of uncensored racial and transphobic slurs—the n-word is used in full four times—shows just how little LA Magazine cares about marginalized communities.

It is irresponsible to have a writer say that she laughed at McInnes’s jokes and almost wanted him to like her. My community and countless others that have been attacked, dehumanized, and denigrated by McInnes, are not jokes. The sheer amount of uncensored racial and transphobic slurs—the n-word is used in full four times—shows just how little LA Magazine cares about marginalized communities. We weren’t surprised when the magazine changed the headline and its metadata to “How Gavin McInnes Went from Vice to the Far Right.” (The original headline was “Gavin McInnes, Founder of Vice and the Proud Boys, Bares His Soul.”) Take your screenshots now, before the article is removed entirely.

This should be the graph where I say “news outlets have a responsibility to the public and should blah blah” but that is so 2016 and we’re over that. Everyone should just unfollow LA Mag until they stop giving neo-nazis a platform and give some cold hard cash to anti-hate groups or civil rights defenders because normalizing white supremacy creates more white supremacists … surprise, surprise. Advertisers, do you want to be affiliated with a publication that promotes white supremacy?

I know I’ll hear the inevitable: “But what about the editorial staff with families?” Frankly, after seeing horrific reports of what’s happening in detention centers, pictures of bodies, countless reports of white supremacist violence across the nation, I don’t give a single fuck.