Lauren Southern

Lauren Southern (born: ) is a Canadian-Australian author, filmmaker, political commentator and YouTuber known for her political videos.
==Content==
Her first video was uploaded on 15 November 2015 called "Trent Students Don't Know The Definition Of Violence", where she detailed her experience going to the Trent university wearing a sombrero and claimed her gender was an attack helicopterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZS4sQkKj4&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She went to Berkeleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKxq184qmtk&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern with similar intentionshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSMz0pcrM18&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She would also give her opinion on political/trending eventshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdmBqJLYcU&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and would also respond to fellow anti-social justice warriors such as Thunderf00thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh8H6tOQh10&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and Sargon of Akkadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3o6dIzCDEI&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern.
On March 10 2017 she announced that she was going independent and doing freelance journalismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ZRJ0D6zPE&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern, and going after the White House eliteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmSSgtBe-CE&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She has made several anti Islam videoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMCi5jCSQYk&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern, calling the Left hypocrites for defending it as its views on women, homosexuals and Athiests contradict the views the Left holdshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0f6tDoP5Fw&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. At a UK Feminist rally she went around asking them if they cared more about Islam or feminismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHuFah0uds&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She opposes refugeeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfPB9VcPkfY&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and believes that they are faking being refugees and in reality, they are economic migrantshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XhLiiu0is&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She holds the same belief for refugees in countries outside of Canada such as Francehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8LGX8o2fw8&ab_channel=LaurenSouthernhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Js8wntdk4&ab_channel=LaurenSouthernhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=758_eiHzZqE&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and the UKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k62vV8YiyLM&ab_channel=LaurenSouthernhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSe09SGLJfA&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She repeatedly investigates and reports on refugee campshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iMMELu1LHY&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern, which was referenced in her anti-illegal immigration speech at the EUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlM-bkGg08I&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. 
She has promoted The Great Replacement, a conspiracy theory that claims Jews are intentionally flooding Europe with non-white refugees in order to replace white people. However, she did not mention Jews in the video, which is now deleted. Many leftists claim that she inspired the Christchurch shooter which she denied, and debunked in a video uploaded in July 2021. The shooter's manifesto also did not mention Lauren. 
She believes that mainstream culture and third wave feminism give bad advice and are setting up millenials for failurehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35KqVLvZrM&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and unhappinesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxgW4HfMos4&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She is also critical of third wave feminism for their war on fathershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pp-0GcRVKg&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. Despite being Canadian she has professed her support for Donald Trumphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvJgu3ZO3e8&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. She is critical of Justin Trudeau and his policies - in October 2016, Southern had 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. However, she is only legally a man in Ontario. She wrote a book the same year called Barbarians: How Baby Boomers, Immigrants, and Islam Screwed My Generation, which received the endorsement of Ann Coulter. 
Her controversial beliefs got her banned from PayPal and Patreon after pressure by left-wing activists,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtImwK5TI4g&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and YouTube demonetized her channel in 2017. She opened a SubscribeStar account in 2020. 
=== Retirement and Return ===
In 2019, she announced her retirement to return to University but returned a year later. Her retirement and return came under suspicion by Laura Loomer and MILO, who wrote an article accusing her of sleeping with right-wing commentators so they can write scripts for her, as well as spreading rumors regarding Laura. A screenshot resurfaced in 2022 of her asking people to make tweets for her.https://twitter.com/mrtown_/status/1549500059368267778?s=20
Milo also alleged that her cameraman, Caolan Robertson had ties to Hope Not Hate, a British far-left organization, and that him and his boyfriend defrauded Alex Jones, Ezra Levant (He was also extorted), Tommy Robinson while he was in prison, as well as his wife, and Lauren herself. They also leaked travel information regarding Gavin McInnes, and he was stalked at an airport. Lauren denied the accusations. 
She uploaded a video in 2022 that denied some of the allegations against her, and also accused Squatting Slav TV and Paul Joseph Watson of harassing her after she turned down a relationship with them. She claimed that her retirement was forced by the Australian government and that Milo Yiannopoulos took advantage of her silence to defame her.
On an episode of Chrissie Mayr's SimpCast, she and Ashton Whitty claimed that Andrew Tate, Groypers, and many dissident right figures were in a sex trafficking ring. This allegation was mocked by many of Chrissie's fans and by Lana Lokteff. 
=== Documentaries ===
She is outspoken about the South African genocides and has gone into excessive detail about their campshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq0GReiZyKc&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern, the people affectedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcNtdHOPfMM&ab_channel=LaurenSouthernhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMOmQJCtTek&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern, the civil warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7o1cxqBPU&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern and the media's silencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c1eBNKmWls&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. The events of the country have inspired her to make the documentary Farmlandshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONs1gpwkCrk&ab_channel=LaurenSouthernhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwH-sw_Z_i8&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. 
In August 2018 she announced her new documentary Borderlesshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfUW6tqrhc&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern which was about Muslim refugees. The documentary was negatively received by alt-right commentators such as Lana Lokteff of Red Ice TV. 
In 2020, the trailer for her film Crossfire was releasedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0KF4oL1KS4&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern.
In March 2021 she began working on her documentary Empty Nesthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0jx162c82E&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern. 
== Personal Life==
Southern was born in Surrey, British Columbia. She studied political science at the University of the Fraser Valley, but after two years decided to leave. 
She is currently residing in Canada with her husband and their child. She has stated that her husband is not white.
In 2017, she was threatened with legal action after falsely accusing Laura Loomer, a Jewish journalist, of rape.
==Trivia==
*She has a pet hedgehog
* Her views got her banned from the UK along with her best friend Brittany Sellner
*She rescues pigeonshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOwF0hDrHS4&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern
*She is anti-nihilisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ-YDYL-zzs&ab_channel=LaurenSouthern
*She has co-authored a children's book with George Alexopoulos called "The ABCs of Morality"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091DYSFGY
*She is an anime fan
==Gallery==
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==References==
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