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# Face of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1951/
- Published: 2019-05-13T18:30:46.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-07T22:03:25.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

![](https://www.thebfd.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/patrick-paddy-gower-3-NEWSHUB-1120.jpg)

> Patrick Gower: ‘I was ashamed and embarrassed\[…\]  
>  
> \[…\] in 20 years, I’ve not done one story on white supremacy.  
> Honestly, me and many other Kiwi journos didn’t see it as a real threat.  
>  
> \[…\] But, I should’ve known.  
> I should have known there are heaps of uncles, and nephews, and aunts, and sons and while we laughed, they just got stronger. And armed.  
> I should’ve known last year, before sitting down with [Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern.](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/08/livestream-patrick-gower-interviews-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux.html?ref=goodoil.news)  
> [I underestimated them,](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/08/patrick-gower-was-not-destroyed-by-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux.html?ref=goodoil.news) I was underprepared and they steamrolled me.  
> I should’ve known the stuff I’ve heard just the past few weeks.. the voices in white supremacist chat rooms and on far-right podcasts spit this vile stuff with Kiwi accents  
> I should’ve known terms like “Identitarians” or “Replacement Theory” or “Accelerationism”  
> But I didn’t know. Because we didn’t look into it.  
> You’ve should’ve known too and, if you don’t, then I have failed you.  
> It’s time to get this right. It won’t make up for past but might stop future threats coming at us like a freight train.  
> I get it now, and I promise to do better.  
> And to all the young journos: **these guys are a real threat to New Zealand.**  
> Dig in, investigate, and don’t make the same mistakes I did.  
>  
> Do your job.  
> And, I’ll tell you another thing– I’m ready for a rematch with Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern.  
>  
>  
> [newshub](https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/05/patrick-gower-i-was-ashamed-and-embarrassed-i-ve-not-done-one-story-on-white-supremacy.html?ref=goodoil.news)

  
I can’t believe how today’s face of the day has smeared Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux as white supremacists. WHAT A (swear word). As for his contention that there is a seething underbelly of white supremacy in New Zealand… what a work of fiction. This is a reporter looking for a mountain, finding a mole hill and calling it Mt flaming Everest!