Lauren Cherie Southern was born on 16 June 1995 and is a Canadian alt-right YouTuber, political activist and commentator.
45 Facts About Lauren Southern
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In 2015, Southern ran as a Libertarian Party candidate in the Canadian federal election.
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Lauren Southern worked for Rebel Media until March 2017, when she began to work independently.
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In May 2017, Lauren Southern supported Defend Europe in their efforts to obstruct search-and-rescue operations of refugees from North Africa in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Lauren Southern was briefly detained by the Italian Coast Guard for blocking a ship embarking on a search-and-rescue mission.
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Lauren Southern was demonetized by YouTube and banned from GoFundMe.
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Lauren Southern promoted the Great Replacement conspiracy theory via her YouTube video of the same name, released in July 2017; the video was reported to have helped to promote the white nationalist viewpoint, having garnered over 600,000 views by March 2019.
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Lauren Southern has been described as an advocate of the white genocide conspiracy theory for her documentary Farmlands, in which she suggested the imminence of a race war in South Africa in response to South African farm attacks.
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Lauren Southern announced her retirement from political activism on 2 June 2019, but returned to YouTube on 19 June 2020.
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Lauren Southern has rejected the "far-right" label and said she is not a racist, preferring to be described as a conservative.
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Lauren Southern studied political science at the University of the Fraser Valley, but left after two years.
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Lauren Southern was briefly removed by the party as a candidate but was reinstated with support from Breitbart News and The Rebel Media.
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Lauren Southern has been widely described as alt-right, far-right and right-wing.
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Lauren Southern rejects the label "far-right", preferring to be described as a conservative.
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Lauren Southern had been impressed by the questions she had asked the speakers and asked her to audition.
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Lauren Southern moved to Toronto to work in the website's offices.
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Lauren Southern worked regularly with Milo Yiannopoulos and Faith Goldy while at Rebel Media and made multiple videos with both of them.
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In October 2016, Lauren Southern had some documentation of her gender legally changed to male as part of a video produced for The Rebel Media to show the ease of Ontario's new gender ID laws.
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In December 2016, Lauren Southern self-published a short book Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation.
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In March 2017, Lauren Southern announced she would be leaving The Rebel Media.
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Lauren Southern has appeared on Lana Lokteff's program Radio 3Fourteen.
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Lauren Southern has called the Black Lives Matter movement a "terrorist organisation", and a "divisive, violent movement that has fascistic tendencies", which she has falsely claimed has caused more deaths in 30 years than the Ku Klux Klan.
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Lauren Southern has asked whether a multicultural society would require witch doctors at medical conferences, and has claimed that "multiculturalism will inevitably fail unless 50 per cent of the population believes in Western culture".
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Lauren Southern released a YouTube video under this title in July 2017, which was credited with helping to promote a white nationalist viewpoint.
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Lauren Southern has described the theory as: "You have one people and in the space of one generation you have a different people".
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Lauren Southern believes in a white ethnostate, he doesn't believe in whites being superior.
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Lauren Southern has been described as a proponent of the white genocide conspiracy theory.
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In 2018, Lauren Southern produced a documentary called Farmlands which falsely claimed that racially motivated farm attacks in South Africa may represent an impending genocide, a common talking point for white nationalists.
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Lauren Southern supported similar actions by Defend Europe, which chartered a vessel to track and stop what it claimed was collusion between non-governmental organizations and human traffickers.
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In July 2017, Lauren Southern reported Patreon had deleted her account citing concerns about her "raising funds in order to take part in activities that are likely to cause loss of life".
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Lauren Southern denied these allegations, stating that Defend Europe's actions were likely to save lives and that none of her funding went towards the group.
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In November 2018, Lauren Southern released a video that appeared to show an NGO worker admitting that she had coached asylum seekers on how to speak to immigration officials in order to gain refugee status.
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Lauren Southern said transgender people have a "genuine delusion", adding "It's body dysmorphia and that is a mental illness".
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Lauren Southern criticised legal recognition for changing one's gender, because people doing so might be dishonest.
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Lauren Southern has spoken in opposition to feminism and has said that women are "not psychologically developed to hold leadership positions", and "not going to be as great being CEOs".
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Websites for crowdfunding and business services barred Lauren Southern from using their services.
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In March 2018, Lauren Southern was denied entry to the United Kingdom while waiting in Calais.
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Lauren Southern was questioned under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
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Lauren Southern intended to charge $79 for a basic ticket and up to $749 for an "intimate dinner".
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In Brisbane, Lauren Southern mentioned bombing the Australian city of Melbourne, citing and expanding upon the Bible story about finding good people in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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In July 2018, Lauren Southern applied for a travel visa to visit New Zealand for a speaking tour with Canadian podcaster and YouTuber Stefan Molyneux.
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Lauren Southern's husband is part Asian and is credited with introducing her to his Catholic faith.
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On 2 June 2019, Lauren Southern announced her retirement from political activism on her website.
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Lauren Southern stated that her reasons for leaving were that she needed to move on and find fulfillment in a more private capacity.
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On 19 June 2020, Lauren Southern announced in a YouTube video her return and new plans, expressing some remorse for her previous hardline stances.