{"id":111751,"date":"2017-01-16T09:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111751"},"modified":"2017-01-16T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T17:05:33","slug":"the-alt-right-eats-its-own-neo-nazi-podcaster-mike-enoch-quits-after-doxxers-reveal-his-wife-is-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=111751","title":{"rendered":"The alt-right eats its own: Neo-Nazi podcaster \u201cMike Enoch\u201d quits after doxxers reveal his wife is Jewish"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The loosely knit group was shocked to the core Saturday night when one of its most influential leaders \u2014 a man known to his online followers as \u201cMike Enoch,\u201d a virulent racist and anti-Semite \u2014 was revealed to be a New York website developer named Mike Peinovich, who has said that his wife is Jewish. Although the motivations behind Peinovich\u2019s apparent deception are not clear, his operation presumably generated some modest cashflow from true believers in the alt-right crusade.<\/p>\n

As one chagrined poster on Enoch\u2019s website put it, \u201cIt\u2019s pretty bad for your WN [white nationalist], fourth reich, neo-nazi, facist [sic] movement when one of the head guys happens to be married to a Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enoch\/Peinovich is the creator of the popular neo-Nazi website The Right Stuff (TRS). For several years, he has also co-hosted a podcast called \u201cThe Daily Shoah,\u201d a deliberately offensive pun on the Hebrew term for the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

In his online persona, Peinovich routinely cracked jokes about killing Jewish people and forcibly deporting Muslims and people of African descent. The weekly program had roughly 100,000 regular listeners, many of whom regularly sent in financial donations by PayPal or bought merchandise from the site.<\/p>\n

Peinovich\u2019s wife appears to have been aware of the entire situation. She even appeared on \u201cThe Daily Shoah\u201d several times, including a special holiday-season segment in 2015 where she read a neo-Nazi parody of \u201cThe Night Before Christmas.\u201d Introducing the clip, which can be found online, Peinovich said his wife was \u201cvery proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peinovich\u2019s doxxing \u2014 a term referring to revealing someone\u2019s private information online \u2014 was largely the work of anonymous left-wing users on the Medium blog site, in a post that has since been deleted. Word spread like wildfire throughout the alt-right\u2019s many web forums and message boards over the weekend, as TRS fans and detractors battled over whether the information was legitimate or not.<\/p>\n

That initial report had an air of credibility, since the identities of Peinovich\u2019s fellow \u201cdeath panelists\u201d on the podcast had been revealed earlier in the week. That doxxing was done by members of a rival website called 8chan, who attacked TRS for supporting the principle that non-Jewish white nationalists had common interests with extreme right-wing Israelis, which is anathema to hardcore neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.<\/p>\n

First the 8channers unmasked one of Peinovich\u2019s colleagues, a University of Nebraska philosophy student who called himself \u201cGhoul,\u201d and whose mother was revealed to be married to another woman. After that, 8channers and anti-fascist activists temporarily worked together to dox the rest of the \u201cDaily Shoah\u201d crew. \u201cBulbasaur\u201d was exposed as a corrections officer living in Nashville and \u201cSeventh Son\u201d was revealed as a guitarist in an obscure Goth-rock band.<\/p>\n

The big prize for the doxxers, however, was Peinovich. As the creator of TRS, he was (at least until this weekend) regarded as one of the three most influential figures in the alt-right, alongside Daily Stormer creator Andrew Anglin and Richard Spencer, the co-creator of the \u201calt-right\u201d label.<\/p>\n

Though TRS has not received as much coverage in the mainstream press, it originated or popularized many alt-right pranks and memes, including the practice of identifying Jewish people or those suspected of being Jewish with (((triple sets of parentheses,))) bogus White Student Union schemes at educational institutions, and racist or anti-Semitic song parodies. Peinovich was also reportedly among the people who gave the Nazi salute at the infamous National Policy Institute conference after Trump\u2019s election in November.<\/p>\n

Mike Enoch\u2019s downfall was set in motion in December when a former alt-right vlogger named Mike Cernovich hinted to his viewers that one of his rivals \u201cis morbidly obese and is married to a Jewish woman.\u201d He declined to say whom he meant, but that salacious rumor set the cyber-sleuths to their task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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