Talk:Lauren Southern

Semi-protected edit request on 27 July 2023
Lauren is not alt-right. That’s defamation 66.113.12.68 (talk) 06:49, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template.

Per the article, sources describing Southern as "alt-right" include:
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Sources describing Southern as "far-right" include:


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Sources describing Southern as "right-wing" include:


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Some academics and journalists have described Southern as a white nationalist, Sources discussing Southern in relation to white nationalism include:



If you have a problem with reliable sources, please take it up with those sources, or at least explain the issue in more detail. Grayfell (talk) 07:25, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * My only issue with these sources is that they are all outdated. They all take place before her "transformation." Do sources still refer to her as alt-right? Since 2020, it appears that she genuinely has become a different person. However, I do acknowledge that policy is not on her side if no recent sources merely describe her as "conservative". I no longer feel that "alt-right" is an accurate descriptor of her current views (I was and still am genuinely disgusted by her past worldview). Is there any way we can replace these outdated references with newer ones. I have been struggling to find any. Scorpions1325 (talk) 00:13, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The issue here is not about reliable sources, but that Wikipedia labels Southern as "alt-right" in the encyclopedic voice. The choice to do this shows editorial bias, is counterproductive, and brings Wikipedia into disrepute. The editorial decision here would be analogous to the article on Kamala Harris beginning "Kamala Devi Harris... is a woke[a] American politician..." with the superscript citing all the reliable sources who have described Kamala Harris as "woke", and then saying to readers "if you have a problem with that, take it up with these sources". Wikipedia should never present opinion or labels as fact, but should instead contextualize. Here it would be better to say something like "described as alt right by many mainstream media outlets and social scientists".
 * Imagine someone coming to this article to find out more about Southern, having enjoyed some clip of her on youtube. They will read Wikipedia saying she is alt-right (citing a bunch of liberal sources), conclude that Wikipedia is biassed, leave the page, and look for information elsewhere. So you have actually deterred this person from reading legitimate criticism of Southern, and also given them reason to bad-mouth Wikipedia to their friends. Lose-lose. Geometry guy 21:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If you think Wikipedia shouldn't be describing individuals known for their political views in wikivoice from the left <-> right spectrum, you're going to need much broader consensus than you'll be able to achieve at one single article talk page, because this is extremely common practice when a person's political views are widely described in RS. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 21:41, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This is not describing political views but applying a pejorative label that the person does not accept. If you claim this is widely acceptable in the wikivoice by broad consensus, please point me to the policies and discussions which support your position. Also can you give some examples where a pejorative label is applied in the wikivoice to a living left wing politician. Geometry guy 13:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Does Southern now reject the label of alt-right? She's identified with it in the past. Her tweet also demonstrates that the term isn't necessarily a pejorative. Pokerplayer513 (talk) 22:03, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't know. It would help a lot if we could find something more recent than her piling on to a hashtag in 2016. "Altright", like "woke", can be pejorative or not, depending on who is saying it when, and with what meaning they intend. A sex positive feminist might proudly identify as "slut", but that does not necessarily mean we should use that label in the wikivoice. My impression is that "woke" and "altright" are both trending in the pejorative direction as the political debate becomes more polarised. All of this means an NPOV encyclopedia should be even more careful how these labels are used in articles. Geometry guy 21:16, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * , besides her 2016 tweet there's also all the RS that was provided above and the fact that there doesn't appear to be any sources denying that she is alt-right. So it seems like it's ok to leave in. And she just seems to hold the alt-right ideology or do you disagree? How would you characterize her (regardless of RS)? And alt-right is a political movement with specific criteria and people who self identify with the label. "Woke" is an adjective with a loose definition and isn't a clearly defined political movement. Same with slut. They don't seem like the same thing. Also any political label can be pejorative if applied to the wrong person and that definitely goes for the altright label. Southern has self identified with the altright label in the past so it seems accurate until RS with due weight contradicts it. Pokerplayer513 (talk) 01:13, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I disagree that "alt-right" is pejorative. It's a descriptor of a specific ideology, not unlike "far right". GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 22:57, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
 * You disagree because you yourself are a leftist, and it is convenient for you to pretend it isn't a pejorative. That's all there is to it.
 * As for her being "far right", that's equally pejorative. It's literally a meme on her channel now because she's been accused of it for so long. She even made an entire video mocking the idea of her being far right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQrnH20sVHk&t=261s Winnzy (talk) 13:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 October 2023
Libertarians are not alt-right. Please remove the slander claiming she is alt-right unless there is verifiable proof. Disagreeing with the extreme left does not qualify. 24.158.139.90 (talk) 01:24, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * There is a little superscript "[a]" beside that claim in the lead, that displays a list of many reliable sources describing Southern as alt-right. HiLo48 (talk) 01:33, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: As above, per sources. No consensus, setting request to answered. Grayfell (talk) 02:12, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Lauren Southern dated Andrew Tate. Request for Addition to Personal Life?
About a year ago or so, Tommy Robinson, a former associate of Lauren Southern, claimed in a video titled: "Fake Rape Allegations: Andrew Tate The Truth" on Rumble.com, that he witnessed her in a relationship with Andrew Tate back in 2018, either early or mid 2018. He said he, Caolan Roberton and Lauren spent some time in Romania at Tate's house and got a lay of the land, so to say.

Separately, this Caolan Robertson, who is definitely associate of Lauren and Tommy's and his/her former camera man, also hinted in a post about Lauren, though not naming her specifically, that she was sexually assaulted by Tate at some point on the same day he went on a tour throughout Tate's house, all in Romania. He said this in a tweet on twitter that was deleted on or around 30th December 2022, about a year ago now.

I wonder, is this information relevant enough for her article? The relationship has not been confirmed by Lauren, but she's been radio silent on Andrew Tate regarding any mention of him, which is surprising for her content - since she talks about men in the alt-right/right-wing sphere occasionally. Tommy Robinson is a witness to a relationship that isn't commonly known by most people. However, Tate is a well known public figure and so is she, so is it possible someone here can edit her article to include this information in the section on her personal life? If I provide the Robinson video where he makes the claim, would that make an edit more likely? 176.61.110.190 (talk) 01:26, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Any such claim would require high quality reliable sources, not firsthand rumors in Rumble videos. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 14:44, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * It's not a rumor, it was literally said by a man who was with her in Romania. Caolan Robertson was also with her and indirectly referred to her in a tweet that she was involved with Andrew Tate.
 * An article from The Atlantic is referenced in her personal life section quoting Daniel Lombroso supposedly quoting Lauren saying "She kept telling me she had grown more 'compassionate,' but whenever I asked her pointedly if she regretted her past work, I got obfuscation and tactical apologies." something she hasn't said in a video or a tweet and it's allowed to stay, even though it's just something he claimed she said - but two associates of Lauren's both saying in different ways that she was with Tate translates as a rumor? 176.61.110.190 (talk) 01:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * "...indirectly referred to her in a tweet..." Okay, so what are we supposed to do with that? Does a reliable, verifiable source (meaning a published source) say that Caolan Robertson tweeted about this, and does that reliable, published source explain why this is anything more than gossip? Grayfell (talk) 04:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I'll quote the tweet Caolan Robertson posted on 31st December, 2022 and deleted shortly after.
 * "Andrew showed me his webcam room where he forces women against their will to make porn and sexually assaulted someone close to me. Both in the same day." There are screenshots of that tweet. No interview with Caolan was conducted about the tweet and not many people know about the tweet or even Tommy Robinson's video claim about seeing her being in a relationship with him. Lauren doesn't identify as "Alt-right", yet it's at the top of her page as if she self-identified with that label, just because a bunch of news outlets with opinion pieces called her as such.
 * If a New York Times opinion piece claimed Lauren was a dog, would you believe them just because they're considered a "reliable, verifiable source" every other time? 176.61.110.190 (talk) 18:12, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
 * So in other words, the answer to my question is "no". If no reliable source has mentioned this, neither should we. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia articles mainly summarize reliable sources.
 * If, instead, this is all just a convoluted argument to remove 'alt-right' from the lead, the talk page already has many past discussions of this, and again, Wikipedia mainly summarizes reliable sources. Grayfell (talk) 18:38, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Libertarians aren't "Alt-right"
Stop spreading misinformation because of your political bias 162.235.56.28 (talk) 04:10, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Some libertarians are alt-right, some are not. GorillaWarfare (she/her • talk) 14:45, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Lauren Southern isn't part of the Alt-right, she's part of the dissident right
Dissident right is a range of people on the right unsatisfied with the neocon status quo that covers more populist views all the way to the alt-right, alt-right is a fringe idea within the dissident right. Lauren has criticized capitalism on numerous occasions. She's actually more of a socially conservative libertarian social democrat. Lauren supports Russia and is a fan of Alexander Dugin, someone who many American communists (Caleb Maupin, Jackson Hinkle, Haz al-Din) are fans of. She was friends with some people who were friends with Nazis (like Brittany Pettibone, not a Nazi herself but chummy with some of the more "moderate" ones like Lana Lokteff who for some reason affiliates with Nazi scumbag David Duke). If we run through the transitive property, then isn't most of BreadTube part of the alt-right because after all, shoe0nhead, a BreadTuber, is friends with Lauren Southern. 72.72.201.226 (talk) 13:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Please reference some credible sources that identify her as part of the "dissident right", we'll be able to make the change. Robincantin (talk) 23:59, 30 May 2024 (UTC)