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Faith J. Goldy
Faith Goldy on InfoWars.jpg
Born Faith Julia Goldy
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Education Havergal College
Alma mater University of Western Ontario
Trinity College, Toronto (B.A.)
Occupation Political commentator, reporter
Known for Former reporter for The Rebel Media
Awards Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award

Faith Julia Goldy-Bazos[1] is a Canadian political commentator. Goldy's views have been described as far-right[2][3], white nationalist,[4] and neo-Nazi,[5][6] though she disagrees with these labels.[7] She previously wrote for The Rebel Media, including her former program On The Hunt with Faith Goldy, and her live coverage of events surrounding the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.[8][9][10] On August 17, 2017, her contract with The Rebel Media was terminated after she appeared in an interview on The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website.

On July 27, 2018, Goldy announced her candidacy for mayor of Toronto in the 2018 Toronto mayoral election.

Life and career

Goldy was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a family of partial Ukrainian and Greek origin.[11] She received her formal education at Havergal College, a K12 private school, and studied at Huron College at the University of Western Ontario. She later graduated in politics and history from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, minoring in philosophy and physics. She also began a Masters of Public Policy at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance. Goldy is a Christian, of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.[12]

She has been employed by a number of press and broadcast media organizations, including The Catholic Register, the Toronto Sun, TheBlaze, Bell Media, Zoomer Media, and the National Post. She is a former reporter with the Sun News Network and was employed by The Rebel Media, a Canadian far-right anti-Muslim website,[13] where she presented political commentary in regular YouTube videos and a weekly show called On The Hunt with Faith Goldy.[14] On August 17, 2017, The Rebel Media fired Goldy for being interviewed on The Krypto Report, a podcast produced by the neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer.[15][16]

As of June 15, 2018, her independent journalism YouTube channel has over 60,000 subscribers.[17]

Views

Fourteen Words

Goldy has supported the Fourteen Words,[18][19][20] reciting the most commonly used slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children",[21] and has stated that "I don't see that as controversial... We want to survive."[22] After being banned by Patreon for her advocacy of the slogan, Goldy defended her views. This included gathering signatures on a public petition, which replaced "white children" with "aboriginal children", to supposedly prove the slogan was not hate speech.[23]

White genocide

Goldy believes in the white genocide conspiracy theory.[24][25] She linked the topic with the removal of Confederate statues, claiming they were being replaced "because [white] people are being replaced".[26] While it has been reported to have significantly raised her profile outlining the "terrible truths of white genocide",[27] her belief in the subject has resulted in criticism, including a petition to rescind her Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award,[28] as well as contributing to her dismissal at The Rebel Media.[29] GQ labelled her as "one of Canada's most prominent propagandists" of the theory.[30]

Controversies

Goldy drew criticism in March 2017, when she posted on Twitter a video of herself in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, expressing shock that she could hear an Islamic call to prayer in the city, and suggesting that "Bethlehem's Christian population has been ethnically cleansed".[31]

In June 2017, she broadcast on Rebel Media "White Genocide in Canada?", analyzing the Canadian government's foreign immigration policies with regard to the Third World, and the effect of those policies on the demographic composition of Canadian society. She posited that the European population in the country was being replaced as a result.[32] In response to the broadcast, several corporate entities withdrew their financial support from Rebel Media.[33]

According to Winnipeg Free Press columnist Dan Lett, Goldy seemed to be working to provide mainstream respectability to the far right demonstrators in the course of her reporting on the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, arguing that they suggested a wider "rising white racial consciousness" in America and referring to a manifesto by white supremacist Richard Spencer, which Lett described as including "calls to organize states along ethnic and racial divides and celebrates the superiority of 'White America'", as "robust" and "well thought-out".[4] These broadcasts, together with her interview on The Krypto Report, were central to the resignation of Brian Lilley from The Rebel, and Goldy's own subsequent dismissal.[4]

In May 2018, Goldy was banned from the crowdfunding site Patreon after she recited the white nationalist slogan Fourteen Words.[5] In July 2018 she was also banned from the online payment system PayPal, also in connection with her recitation and defense of the Fourteen Words. Separately, she learned that Freestartr, an alternative crowdfunding system through which she had been receiving contributions after losing her Patreon account, had itself been shut out of PayPal, leaving her unable to receive payments.[34]

Municipal politics

On July 27, 2018, Goldy registered to run for Mayor in the 2018 Toronto election.[35] She has indicated that, if elected, her mayoral agenda will include the re-instatement of the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS) and carding, affordable housing for millennials born in Toronto, the refusal of new illegal immigrants, as well as major repairs to Toronto's roads.[36]

References

  1. ^ "University of Toronto Alumni Demand Ex-Rebel Media Host Be Stripped of Prestigious Leadership Award". PressProgess. March 19, 2018. 
  2. ^ "The 'Charlottesville' Effect on the Canadian Far Right". 
  3. ^ The Alt-Right A Reference for the Far-Right Political Movement by Corey Tillerson
  4. ^ a b c Lett, Dan (19 August 2017). "Rebel Media's meltdown and the politics of hate". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 28 August 2017. 
  5. ^ a b Holt, Jared (May 29, 2018). "Faith Goldy Defends Her Recital Of '14 Words'". Right Wing Watch. Retrieved May 29, 2018. 
  6. ^ "Lessons from the Great Right North". The New Republic. Retrieved 2018-07-28. 
  7. ^ Faith Goldy on Rebel Media's YouTube channel
  8. ^ ‘That’s just racist’: Ezra Levant distances The Rebel from alt-right as contributors resign. http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ezra-levant-distances-the-rebel-from-the-alt-right-as-contributors-resign/wcm/e1b829fe-6a31-4eac-851e-c7efffb71b62
  9. ^ Is this the beginning of the end for Canada's Rebel Media. https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/canada/2017/08/15/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-canadas-rebel-media-tim-harper.html
  10. ^ Weigel, David (August 13, 2017). "Fear of 'Violent Left' Preceded Events in Charlottesville". PowerPost. Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  11. ^ 'Young, Gifted & Ukrainian', 'New Pathway', interview with Faith Goldy, 16 January 2017. https://www.newpathway.ca/young-gifted-ukrainian-faith-goldy-rebel-media/
  12. ^ Profile of Faith Goldy on 'The Rebel Media' (2017). https://www.therebel.media/faithgoldy
  13. ^ Yang, Jennifer (22 October 2017). "A Toronto imam was accused of hate-preaching against Jews. But that wasn't the whole story". The Toronto Star. 
  14. ^ "On The Hunt With Faith Goldy". The Rebel. 
  15. ^ "Rebel Media meltdown: Faith Goldy fired as politicians, contributors distance themselves". 18 August 2017. 
  16. ^ "A fight over a four-bedroom house: The Rebel Media meltdown and the full recording at the centre of the controversy". 
  17. ^ Faith J Goldy profile on SocialBlade.com
  18. ^ "How badly is the Bundy case screwed up? Media gear up for voting-rights assault; Faith Goldy recites, embraces the '14 Words'; and more". Southern Poverty Law Center. 21 December 2017. 
  19. ^ "Open letter petitions U of T to rescind Faith Goldy's student leadership award". The Varsity. 26 March 2018. 
  20. ^ "Why We Can't Welcome Faith Goldy". Arthur (newspaper). 27 March 2018. 
  21. ^ "Ann Coulter Retweets White Nationalist Charlotesville Leader Who Attacked Trump With Syria Conspiracy Theory". Newsweek. 16 April 2018. 
  22. ^ "How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists". GQ. 8 May 2018. 
  23. ^ "Faith Goldy Defends Her Recital Of '14 Words'". Right Wing Watch. 29 May 2018. 
  24. ^ "Stop Faith Goldy From Having A Platform At Wilfrid Laurier University". HuffPost. 20 April 2018. 
  25. ^ "Faith Goldy's talk at Wilfrid Laurier was cancelled. And a damn good thing, too". Toronto Star. 21 March 2018. 
  26. ^ "Faith Goldy Took Too Many Red Pills". Right Wing Watch. 16 October 2016. 
  27. ^ "Free speech isn't fair. So what?". Maclean's. 23 March 2018. 
  28. ^ "Open letter petitions U of T to rescind Faith Goldy's student leadership award". The Varsity. 26 March 2018. 
  29. ^ "Peter Dutton's offer to white South African farmers started on the far right". The Guardian. 16 March 2018. 
  30. ^ "How Free Speech Warriors Mainstreamed White Supremacists". GQ. 8 May 2018. 
  31. ^ Malek, Cate. "Bethlehem Is Struggling to Protect the Church of the Nativity". Newsweek. 
  32. ^ "Faith Goldy: White Genocide in Canada?". Rebel Edge. 
  33. ^ "Advertisers bow to pressure to pull ads from The Rebel". 
  34. ^ Barnes, Luke (July 23, 2018). "3 more prominent far-right accounts get de-platformed by PayPal". ThinkProgress. Retrieved July 28, 2018. 
  35. ^ https://www.thestar.com/news/toronto-election/2018/07/27/toronto-council-hopefuls-staying-the-course-despite-uncertain-election-future.html
  36. ^ "Faith Goldy on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-07-29. 

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