Alright, so all the other posts I’ve made so far aren’t as controversial for the Grove City College audience, but this and the next one might be rocking the boat a little bit. All the other people Ive wrote posts about are conservatives, but just in case people see Lauren Southern as a little too far to the right, keep in mind that actual alt-right people criticize and mock Lauren Southern, even calling her the enemy, and she distances herself from them. The documentaries she has made are her reporting, as a journalist activist, on things going on in the world that she backs up with evidence and that she has given a humanitarian and moderate argument about, rather than something ideological. Also keep in mind that the groups she is interacting with in these documentaries are non-violent, don’t claim that any group of people is better or worse than any other, and don’t express any hatred. If anyone reading this feels like something is radically far to the right in a bad way, keep the above in mind and think about the situations being described in terms of people treating other groups of people in a bad way, rather than people of this specific group treating people of that specific group in a bad way. If all you look at is the action being done, and not who is doing the action or who it is done to, and you agree that it isn’t racist to say no person should do that or be subject to that, then the race of the person doing it and the race of the person it is being done to doesn’t change that. What is racist is when someone feels uncomfortable that someone is saying that a group of people can be victims of something despite those people happening to be of a certain race.

Lauren Southern is a self-employed and self described “activist journalist” from Canada who seeks to report on and show people information that would help people adopt her political opinions. Unlike mainstream media companies, she tells you that she has a bias, that bias doesn’t cause her to edit, add, crop, distort or lie in any way that would change the information being shown, and she is on the political right. Her youtube channel has 700,000 subscribers and 54 million views, and she has many more viewers than that across various other social media platforms. She has done many things from report on the far left to interview the philosopher Alexander Dugin, but the main focus of this post is that she has created the documentary Farmlands and is currently wrapping up her second documentary, Borderless.

Farmlands is about how she traveled to South Africa to investigate claims that a major South African political party, the “Economic freedom fighters” called for the genocide of white people and sung a song about shooting white people, and that the president of South Africa, the head of the African National Congress, publicly sung that song afterwards in a not so ironic manner. Traveling through South Africa, interviewing South African families that had family members that have been victims of racially motivated killings, police officers, members of the government, and various other people and groups, the documentary exposes a corrupt, communistic country slowly descending into racially oriented civil war. The documentary shows how the situation is nearly identical to the lead up to the Rwandan genocide, where formerly Tutsi ruling class of Rwanda were nearly completely exterminated in horrific crimes against humanity by the Hutu majority of the population. However, the mainstream media across the world doesn’t cover the large numbers of racially motivated crimes that have already happened in South Africa and in fact attacks anyone who claims that anything is going on at all is a evil Nazi conspiracy theorist. As the documentary shows, modern liberal institutions and viewpoints can tolerate things like this when the victims are white, and Lauren Southern calls for an end to the idea that any crime is any more or less justified based on the race or group that the victims or perpetrators are of. Some people who watched it called it an eye-opener that isn’t afraid to be controversial to call for Martin Luther King Jr. style racial unity of not judging people by the color of their skin but by the content of their character(or their actions), while other people claimed that it is racist and a right-wing conspiracy theory movie because it calls the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela’s party, a corrupt and evil communist party that changed from committing terrorism during apartheid to now discriminating against the Afrikaner (white) minority of South Africa more and more, heading down the path towards genocide. Lauren Southern posted the documentary to her youtube channel, where it has over 2 million views and a 24:1 like to dislike ratio, and where you can judge for yourself if it calls for the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. or if it is literally Neo-Nazi propaganda like the mainstream media claims.

The documentary that Lauren Southern is still working on, Borderless, is about the migrant crisis in Europe. She has done filming for the documentary while traveling with Identity Europa, a organization of millennials dedicated to protecting western culture. That group, and other groups mentioned in previews and trailers for the documentary, reject claims that they are racist and say that they are defending the culture of the west from being attacked and destroyed from violent, authoritarian cultures that hate western ideas. Identity Europa has previously shown to the world that Non-governmental organizations were violating international law by working with Libyan human traffickers to bring economic migrants from sub-saharan Africa to Italy, and the Italian government has perused actions against those NGO’s. A preview recently released shows another NGO being caught on camera admitting to teaching migrants in turkey how to lie and pretend they are victims of persecution so that the government of Greece will let them in. Presumably the documentary will talk about how many NGO’s receive taxpayer money from aid they receive from various countries national governments, the terrorist attacks and other crimes that have happened across Europe, the rise of populist political parties opposed to the migration policies of the European Union, and much more than that.

Pretty much everything Lauren Southern has ever done or said has offended a number of people, and her political stunts that she did more frequently in the beginnings of her youtube channel were pretty bold and blunt. The things she does for a living would stress out most people far too much, but its her living. That attitude, drive towards creating hard to make things as well as that boldness and bluntness is something that I believe I should have and hopefully do have for the non-profit I hope to found as an entrepreneur.