Internet's Top Nazi Blogger Quits After People Find Out His Wife Is Jewish
(JTA) — The founder of the popular right-wing blog The Right Stuff resigned over the revelation that his wife is Jewish.
Mike Enoch, who also co-hosts “The Daily Shoah” weekly podcast, was outed over the weekend as Mike Peinovich, a website developer from New York. On the podcast, which has about 100,000 regular listeners, Peinovich as Enoch talked about killing Jews and spouted neo-Nazi invective.
The release of Peinovich’s personal details came after the identities of the other podcast panelists were made public earlier in the week by a rival website called 8chan. The invented surname reportedly is a reference to Enoch Powell, a far-right British politician and Nazi sympathizer.
Enoch was considered one of the three most influential figures in the “alt-right” movement along with Daily Stormer creator Andrew Anglin and Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white supremacist think tank.
Peinovich came clean with readers of The Right Stuff, posting a message in a password-protected forum that was reprinted in part by Salon.
“As I am sure you all know, I was doxxed and an ill advised attempt to fool the media about my identity led me to not talk to you people and to try to simply ride it out by being silent,” he said. “This was irresponsible and a disservice to all of you. Yes my wife is who they say she is, I won’t even bother denying it, I won’t bother making excuses. If this makes you want to leave the movement, or to have nothing to do with TRS, then I understand.
“Don’t lie for me. Don’t try to defend me to those attacking me. Don’t jeopardize your own reputation by defending things that you don’t think you can. I could try to explain my whole life for the last ten years to you but what difference at this point would it make. Life isn’t perfect.”
The Right Stuff has popularized many right-wing memes, as well as the triple parentheses known as the echo symbol used by white supremacists and anti-Semites on Twitter to identify Jews.
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CRUSHING blow for the pre-eminent neo-Nazi blog The Right Stuff. Just absolutely crushing. To find out your hardcore Nazi leader is some New York fancyboy married to a Jew. The guy you envisioned to be a black boot wearing, shaved head, swastika-tatted white supremacist is probably some hipster in skinny jeans and Warby Parkers bouncing around Soho on Sundays getting bagels and lox with his wife. What we have here is an authenticity problem and it’s hard to come back from that as a website. Another big time L for the Nazis.
According to It’s Going Down, this is the fearless internet leader of the neo-Nazi alt-right:
Can’t imagine his wife knew about this right? Like this was a, sneak down to the basement and fire up the desktop computer when she’s asleep to hit up the message boards with Holocaust memes type situation? I mean in an ideal world this dude would get hit by a bus or die slowly in some other fashion, but I can at least take some pleasure in the thought of his wife reading his past few years of blog posts.