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Original releaseDecember 2012; 11 years ago (2012-12)
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The Right Stuff is a neo-Nazi[1][2][3] and white nationalist[4] blog and discussion forum and the host of several podcasts, including The Daily Shoah. Founded by American neo-Nazi Mike Enoch, the website promotes Holocaust denial,[5] and coined the use of "echoes", an antisemitic marker that uses triple parentheses around names to identify Jewish people.[6][7][8]

Content

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The site promotes white supremacy,[9] neo-Nazism,[1] antisemitism, Holocaust denial, and the white genocide conspiracy theory.[4] It cites the work of Kevin B. MacDonald, a former professor of psychology and antisemitic conspiracy theorist, known for claiming there is a Jewish plot to control the world to undermine the interest of white people.[10]

Much of The Right Stuff's content is devoted to Holocaust denial, including denying the Nazi's genocidal policies against Poles, Russians, and other Slavic peoples, known by neo-Nazis as "untermenschen". To justify their denial of Nazi atrocities, contributors to The Right Stuff promote the conspiracy theory that the documentary record establishing those genocides was forged by unspecified Jewish people or agents of Jews.[5]

In December 2012, The Right Stuff described itself as "a political and cultural blog" which aimed to unite the "alt-right" and to troll liberals and progressives.[11][non-primary source needed] Over time, its podcasts became more radical, and the blog adopted a conspiratorial neo-Nazi ideology.[12] The blog eventually developed a lexicon, defining jargon used by its publications and the wider alt-right movement.[13]

The website achieved general notoriety through its promotion of the triple parentheses or (((echo))). In 2014, The Daily Shoah began to use a distortion effect when the names of Jewish people were mentioned during a segment called the "Merchant Minute". The meme was adapted to text through the use of parentheses, and in the summer of 2016, it became known through a New York Times column on the topic.[14] The Right Stuff was also one of the earliest websites to make use of the term "cuckservative".[9][15]

The blog was an early proponent of the propaganda film With Open Gates, which attacks multiculturalism and Middle Eastern refugees in Europe and promotes the conspiracy theory that Jews are transporting refugees to harm white people.[16][17]

The blog has seen a steady decline from its peak in 2017. In September 2021, a Southern Poverty Law Center report found that the website had declined in traffic by 87.5% since February 2017, coinciding with a decline in the total number of cast members appearing on The Daily Shoah. In February 2019, The Right Stuff founder Mike Enoch responded to a data subpoena related to the Sines v. Kessler civil lawsuit by stating that TRS had "lost regular listeners", and that many users had "cancelled their accounts and stopped visiting the site".[18]

Doxing incident

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In early 2017, Mike Enoch was doxed by fellow neo-Nazis, who revealed that his real name was Mike Peinovich. They also released biographical information which they believe contradicts his professed ideology.[19][20] The dox revealed that Enoch's wife was Jewish and that their wedding had featured traditional Jewish rites and chanting. Enoch was mocked by other neo-Nazis for his Serbian surname; historically, Nazi Germany had classified Serbs as a subhuman race and the Croatian Ustaše puppet regime had perpetrated a genocide of Serbs.[5]

After the doxing, some of Enoch's followers reacted angrily to the information that had been revealed. They circulated forged images of him and his wife which derided their ethnicities.[1] Salon journalist Matthew Sheffield posited that Neo-Nazi podcast listeners speculated that Enoch was Jewish, "controlled opposition", or otherwise disingenuous in his beliefs.[19]

Alex McNabb

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Alex McNabb is a former emergency medical technician (EMT) who appeared on The Daily Shoah under the pseudonym "Dr. Narcan". He was fired from his job as an EMT after racist comments that he had made on The Daily Shoah came to light, including comparing black patients to animals and claiming to have tortured a young black boy using a catheter needle.[21]

National Justice Party

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Not to be confused with National Justice Party (Peru).
National Justice Party
ChairpersonMike Peinovich
FoundersMike Peinovich, Joseph Jordan, Tony Hovater, Michael McKevitt, Gregory Conte, Warren Balogh, Alan Balogh[22]
FoundedAugust 15, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-08-15)[22]
DissolvedDecember 2023
Ideology
Political positionFar-right
National affiliationPatriot Front[25][23]
Colors    black, red and white
Website
nationaljusticeparty.com (defunct)

The National Justice Party (NJP) was an antisemitic white supremacist political organization in the United States[4] that promoted neo-Nazism.[24] It was not a registered party for purposes of electoral politics.[26]

The Right Stuff announced the National Justice Party in August 2020, to be led by Mike Enoch, with a platform based upon the white genocide conspiracy theory. The party platform also incorporated antisemitic elements, such as calling for mandatory employment discrimination to prevent Jews from working in "vital institutions".[26][27] The chairmen of the party included several prominent white supremacist and alt-right figures, including Joseph Jordan (also known as Eric Striker), Tony Hovater, Michael McKevitt, Gregory Conte, Warren Balogh, and former member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance, Alan Balogh.

NJP held its inaugural event in Millersville Pike just outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[23] NJP also hosted a meeting in response to the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[26] On July 24, 2021, NJP hosted its fifth party event in the Midwest and released a full-length documentary about the event.[26] NJP members had also organized gatherings in Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Dakota to protest what they claim are "anti-white" killings involving black suspects.[28]

NJP was also connected to Antelope Hill Publishing, which publishes books by Nazis and fascists and sells those books at NJP events and on the internet.[29] In early 2024, their website's SSL certificate expired, leaving the website inaccessible.[30]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Lisi, Brian (January 17, 2017). "Neo-Nazi Blog Struggles After Founder's Wife Is Revealed to Be Jewish". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  2. ^ Marantz, Andrew (October 9, 2017). "Birth of a White Supremacist". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 16, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  3. ^ Hayden, Michael Edison (May 1, 2018). "Anonymous White Nationalists May Have Their Identities Exposed in Lawsuit Over Charlottesville, Virginia, Violence". Newsweek. Archived from the original on November 26, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Graves, Howard; Hayden, Michael Edison (August 21, 2020). "White Nationalist Organization Forms Racist, Antisemitic Political Party". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on May 15, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  5. ^ a b c Marantz, Andrew (2019). Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation. Viking Press. pp. 275–314. ISBN 9780525522263.
  6. ^ Fleishman, Cooper; Smith, Anthony (June 1, 2016). "(((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online". Mic. Archived from the original on August 27, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Joshua Eaton (June 6, 2016). "Secret Neo-Nazi Message on Social Media: (((Echoes))) - Anti-Semitism". Teen Vogue. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  8. ^ Ohlheiser, Abby. "Anti-Semitic Chrome Extension Highlighted Jews for Attack Online". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on August 12, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  9. ^ a b Weigel, David (July 29, 2015). "'Cuckservative' – The Conservative Insult of the Month, Explained". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  10. ^ "Kevin MacDonald" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. November 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 9, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2020.
  11. ^ "About Us". The Right Stuff. Retrieved August 28, 2016.[permanent dead link]
  12. ^ Wilson, Jason (August 23, 2016). "A Sense That White Identity Is Under Attack': Making Sense of the Alt-Right". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  13. ^ Krieg, Gregory (August 25, 2016). "Clinton Is Attacking the 'Alt-Right' – What Is It?". CNN. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  14. ^ Yglesias, Matthew (June 6, 2016). "The (((Echo))), Explained". Vox. Archived from the original on May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  15. ^ "Getting Cucky: A Brief Primer On The Radical Right's Newest 'C---servative' Meme". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. August 7, 2015. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  16. ^ Mayo, Marilyn (November 23, 2015). "'With Open Gates': Racist Anti-Refugee Video Goes Viral". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on June 23, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
  17. ^ Neiwert, David (2017). Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. Brooklyn, NY: Verso Books. p. 251. ISBN 9781786634238.
  18. ^ Squire, Megan; Gais, Hannah (September 29, 2021). "Inside the Far-Right Podcast Ecosystem, Part 3: The Rise and Fall of 'The Daily Shoah'". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on April 21, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  19. ^ a b Sheffield, Matthew (January 16, 2017). "The Alt-Right Eats Its Own: Neo-Nazi Podcaster 'Mike Enoch' Quits After Doxxers Reveal His Wife Is Jewish". Salon. Archived from the original on April 26, 2023. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  20. ^ "White Supremacist Outed for Having Jewish Wife". The Times of Israel. January 17, 2017. Archived from the original on April 26, 2023. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  21. ^ Sidner, Sara; Simon, Mallory (March 12, 2019). "Virginia EMT Who Made Racist Remarks on a White Supremacist Podcast Loses His Job". CNN. Archived from the original on April 26, 2023. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
  22. ^ a b "White Nationalist Organization Forms Racist, Antisemitic Political Party". SPLC. June 20, 2022.
  23. ^ a b c Walker, Carter (January 5, 2022). "A Group of Notorious White Nationalists Met Secretly in Historic Lancaster County Barn in 2020. Why Here?". Lancaster Online. Archived from the original on April 21, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  24. ^ a b Value, Grace (June 20, 2022). "National Justice Party (NJP) Warren Balogh 'White America Needs Hitler'". Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Retrieved May 15, 2023. National Justice Party, a registered political party in the United States has always embraced anti-semitism but is increasingly becoming more enamored with Neo-Nazism.
  25. ^ "White Supremacist "Patriot Front" Rally Exposes Splits On The Far-Right". Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right. June 20, 2022. Archived from the original on January 6, 2022. Retrieved July 16, 2022.
  26. ^ a b c d "National Justice Party". Anti-Defamation League. November 2, 2021. Archived from the original on April 25, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  27. ^ "Our Platform". National Justice Party. June 20, 2022.
  28. ^ Hagen, C.S. (July 5, 2022). "As Dad of Slain Fargo Teen Seeks Justice, White Nationalists Push Their Platform". Inforum. Archived from the original on April 26, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  29. ^ "National Hate Group Monitor Unmasks a Lehigh Valley-Area Publishing Company Peddling Nazi and Fascist Literature". The Morning Call. June 15, 2022. Archived from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  30. ^ . January 3, 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240103140608/https://nationaljusticeparty.com/. Archived from the original on January 3, 2024. Retrieved January 26, 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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