{"id":118420,"date":"2017-11-01T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118420"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:14:35","slug":"adl-u-s-representative-brings-holocaust-denier-to-meeting-on-capitol-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=118420","title":{"rendered":"ADL: ‘U.S. Representative Brings Holocaust Denier to Meeting on Capitol Hill’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the ADL<\/a>: <\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) brought Holocaust denier and high-profile alt right troll Charles C. Johnson to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in early October. Rohrabacher and Johnson were reportedly on the Hill to discuss Wikipedia founder Julian Assange with U.S. Sen Rand Paul (R-KY). This comes after Johnson arranged an August meeting in London between Rohrabacher and Assange.
\nJohnson bolstered his credentials as a Holocaust denier back in January during an \u201cAsk Me Anything\u201d (AMA) session on Reddit. Asked for his opinion on the Holocaust and the \u201cJewish Question,\u201d Johnson responded, \u201cI do not and never have believed the six million figure,\u201d adding that he agreed with well-known Holocaust denier David Cole \u201cabout Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real.\u201d In a fashion typical of Holocaust deniers, Johnson recast the Nazi war effort as a defensive action against the spread of communism, and wrote that \u201cGerman fears of [their own] extermination were not misplaced.\u201d <\/p>\n

The AMA was posted in the \u201cAltright\u201d subreddit, a white nationalist online community rife with anti-Semitism, racism, and Holocaust denial. Reddit has since deleted the subreddit, but Johnson\u2019s AMA was preserved by a third party archive site.<\/p>\n

Johnson is best known as an alt right blogger and internet troll. He has been criticized for making unfounded accusations against public figures, for racially charged comments and for doxxing people (publishing reporters\u2019 and others\u2019 private information online). He was banned from Twitter after soliciting for donations on the platform to \u201ctake out\u201d a Black Lives Matter activist, though Johnson claims his tweets were misunderstood.<\/p>\n

Johnson continues to foment controversy with WeSeachr, a website he founded which, among other things, serves as a crowd-funding nexus for members of the alt right and alt lite. A recent WeSearchr campaign solicited cash to support an alt lite rally in Berkeley, CA, and another raised more than $85,000 for the legal defense of Kyle Chapman (aka \u201cBased Stickman\u201d), an alt lite \u201chero\u201d who was charged in August with felony weapons possession. The site also spearheaded a a legal defense fund to support Andrew Anglin, editor of the notorious neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, who is currently being sued by a Jewish woman for allegedly orchestrating a campaign of anti-Semitic harassment against her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather than asking — how do they deny the Holocaust, we should ask — why do they deny the Holocaust<\/a>. “Holocaust denial” or “Holocaust revisionism” isn’t really about body counts. It is denial that the Jews were 100% innocent. <\/p>\n

It’s weird to take someone’s opinion on a part of history and then boil him down to “Holocaust denier.” These dismissals are a common tactic by some Jews and Leftists to remove enemies from the conversation. <\/p>\n

As for my own opinions on the Holocaust, they are entirely conventional. I accept whatever is the scholarly consensus. I believe that somewhere around six million Jews were killed in Europe in World War II and I believe there were gas chambers and other forms of mass killing of Jews and non-Jews. I don’t think people should be put in prison or ex-communicated from polite society for challenging the conventional Holocaust narrative, however. <\/p>\n

Orange County Register Aug. 25, 2017<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s presence at the meeting helped fuel the criticism because he\u2019s been associated with the alt right. Johnson, who runs GotNews.com, was banned from Twitter for life after a 2015 tweet soliciting donations to \u201ctake out\u201d African American civil-rights activist DeRay McKesson.<\/p>\n

A new website launched by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to attack Rohrabacher, dubbed \u201cThe Rohrabacher Conspiracy,\u201d calls Johnson a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d and \u201cHolocaust denier,\u201d citing research by the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Johnson dismissed the DCCC site as \u201cdisgusting and underhanded.\u201d He said he has \u201cno reason to discount\u201d consensus that Nazis killed 6 million Jews and \u201cI am not a white-power fanatic.\u201d He said online quotes attributed him that indicate otherwise have been doctored or taken out of context.<\/p>\n

However, he did acknowledge his belief that there are intellectual differences between the races.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some groups that are smarter than others, but that doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t respect them,\u201d Johnson told me in comments I read back to ensure their accuracy. \u201cWhile it may be true that Jews may be smarter than whites and whites may be smarter than blacks, that doesn\u2019t mean we should dehumanize anybody because of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should never use this to discriminate in hiring or in general.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chuck Johnson did this Reddit AMA about a year ago. Here are excerpts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

* I’m of the view that Donald Trump is an economic, cultural and political figure.
\nI supported him after he forced Obama to reveal his fake birth certificate. I wouldn’t say we are terribly close but I did watch all of the Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice and I’ve come around to him as a political figure.
\nI placed a bet on him and Ted Cruz in London but I honestly never expected the Republican Establishment to be as weak as it wound up being.<\/p>\n

* From a macroeconomic perspective Trump is the return of the alpha male. Whenever you see societies that are collapsing you’ll see a return of alpha males. That’s why people like Mike Cernovich are coming to dominate the Twitterverse and why people like Ben Shapiro and the other cucks are starting to fall apart.<\/p>\n

* One day the country will know what I know about Barack Obama.
\nYes, he’s gay (not that I care), and yes, his second daughter isn’t his. And yes, his father is Frank Marshall Davis. And if you want to work on this, you should email me.
\nFor the record Obama was born in Hawaii but he’s told two different stories about which hospital. He’s also told three different stories about how he met his wife.
\nOh, and have a look at his hands in this photo<\/a>.
\nAnd while we’re on the topic check out the moles on Obama’s face. That’s a trait only common among West African blacks (think Morgan Freeman!).
\nOh, and another thing. I went to this bridge and I can’t get the angle on the shot they did<\/a>. It’s in Central Park across from the Plaza Hotel.
\nProve it’s fake and I’ve got some other fun projects for you. <\/p>\n

* I’m wearing my Make America Great Again hat right now. One day the public will know all that I did behind the scenes but it is not today. My wife gets mad at me for running around the house yelling “MAGA” in sheer joy.
\nWhen BuzzFeed made up Donald Trump leaving Roy Cohn because he had AIDS that pissed me off. It wasn’t true. Cohn was being investigated by the feds.
\nWhen BuzzFeed — that cat porn site — attacked Donald Trump for backing Mike Tyson — who was wrongly put in prison for rape — I knew he was a great man and that I had to do everything I could to tell the truth about him and his supporters.<\/p>\n

* Don’t tell anyone but Ben Garrison is a great man.<\/p>\n

* Jesus or Socrates or Galileo was the troll I always wanted to be.<\/p>\n

* >When did you first realize you were a glorious shitlord?<\/p>\n

I started (((noticing))) things and read the Bell Curve. I legit hid it under my mattress. Steve Sailer was a huge influence. I used to work in a computer lab in high school and I would read him and delete my history lest anyone found out.<\/p>\n

* I’m not really sure if I’m an Alt Right figure. Okay, fine. I probably am. I did a podcast on the Alt Right awhile back. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YBvq0kUpHio
\nI think I was GamerGate before there was a GamerGate. I used to play an absurd amount of StarCraft, Halo, Gears of War, Call of Duty, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Rainbow Six, and then I got married and had to make money and shit so I stopped playing video games but then I realized Twitter is kind of a video game. So is the news media. Real life has become my video game.
\nYou should read Steve Sailer and Mike Cernovich and Razib Khan at Unz Review.
\nYou should also go to my website and see all the books. You should join my researcher slack where we have a reading list.
\nYou should read the 10,000 Year Explosion; Albion’s Seed; The German War; and, of course, The Blank Slate.
\nYou should buy these books but if you are cheap you should get them at bookzz.org.<\/p>\n

* I think it’s odd that we haven’t seen more political assassinations. You usually expect to see them in economic downturns and perhaps we are due. I think Trump probably has a 5-10% chance of being assassinated. I think oftentimes about what America would look like afterwards.<\/p>\n

* If you want to join us, go over to Gotnews.com and we’ll teach you how to become a better consumer of news and ultimately a producer.
\nThe most important thing everyone can do is “not live by lies.”
\nDon’t teach the SJW bullshit to your children. Don’t pretend you believe it to get laid. Don’t say it to get promoted, etc.
\nJust walk away from the lies. It’ll be hard at first but then you’ll feel so good about yourself that you won’t want to stop.
\nOh, and read this essay which I sort of plagiarized from just as second ago there. www.orthodoxytoday.org\/articles\/SolhenitsynLies.php
\nAlso read this one by Paul Graham to discover when you’re being sold a moral fashion. http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/say.html
\nWork very hard to make your life anti-fragile too so that no SJW mob can come try and lynch you. And if you can’t do that, send me some stories and I’ll write them for you.<\/p>\n

* Part of the reason I did a research project on Deray McKesson is that I’m acutely aware of how Silicon Valley fascism teamed up with Black Lives Matter and Obama to try to push this fiction that white cops kill blacks disproportionately. That’s why I fought it so hard and that’s why I will continue to fight to expose those relationships. It’s why I’m so friendly with George Zimmerman.
\nMcKesson is Jack Dorsey’s boyfriend. (Not a joke).
\nYes, I got suspended from Twitter because I insulted a man’s secret boyfriend. It’s fucked up.
\nMckesson is finished. When someone bothers to look into his time at Bowdoin College they’ll find what I found and it’ll all be over.
\nOh, and remember, Donald Trump crushed McKesson when he was running for Mayor of Baltimore.<\/p>\n

* >What inspired you to start up GotNews?<\/p>\n

It kind of started as a joke, like, “Got Milk?” but then moved into something more serious.
\nI started as a researcher for Alan Dershowitz, who is still a good friend and I paid my way through college researching things for corporations, individuals, etc. and playing poker of course.
\nI realized that the way the social justice warriors maintain power is through the narrative and that news — and the way the human brain focuses on novelty — was how they maintained control. You could blow up those narratives and they would be left scrambling. Social justice warriors always lie! And I soon realized that people would come out of the woodwork and give you money to cause trouble. And they still do. gotnews.com\/donate.
\nShameless plug out of the way!<\/p>\n

* >What fact angers the most people in your experience?<\/p>\n

The IQ differential between racial populations.<\/p>\n

* It’s weird how much weed and video games have emasculated some men. I think it’s all about making you become a part of the matrix.<\/p>\n

>What are your personal thoughts on the whole Michelle Fields thing?
\nDo you think it was a deliberate smear attempt due to her feeling like she was not pampered enough by the campaign, or do you think she’s just so spoiled rotten and entitled that she convinced herself she was truly assaulted?
\nAlso if you can’t comfortably answer that – alternate question, what do you think about how Trumps campaign handled the incident and do you feel it was recovered from?<\/p>\n

It was an effort by Michelle Fields to get the limelight once again. She worked with her very rich boyfriend (((Jamie Weinstein))) to hijack the national discourse to promote herself and later her book. I think she is actually mentally ill. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. I just think she is. I think it’s quite revealing that Jamie hasn’t made an honest woman of her yet.
\nThe Trump campaign should have shared more of my articles. You’ll note that when they did the whole story changed. I don’t get why people don’t share my articles more often but I know that they read them. I’m sort of like a Steve Sailer for news! Megyn Kelly — when she wasn’t busy cheating with Brit Hume — even called my website discredited or some such. Naughty, naughty!<\/p>\n

>Confirm some things about Obama.
\nIs he gay? Is his wife really a man\/tranny? Is he really muslim? Is he Kenyan or Hawaiian or other? What are his real political views, since he had close dealings with communism\/socialism in college and while growing up<\/p>\n

Yes, he’s gay and had gay relationships.
\nI’m pretty sure she’s a woman but that she has high levels of testerone which is not uncommon for black women.
\nHe was registered as a Muslim at a Catholic school he attended and I visited in Indonesia.
\nHe is not Kenyan. Frank Marshall Davis is his father.
\nFrank Marshall Davis is a card-carrying Communist who is called Uncle Frank in “Obama’s book”. He was openly gay in Chicago and joined the gay club in 1979 at Occidental College. His boyfriend and he traveled to Pakistan in the 1980s. He’s a leftist, atheist gay guy who got married to a connected black woman to have a political career. He wanted to be mayor of Chicago.<\/p>\n

>what are your thoughts on the Holocaust, WW2, and the JQ in general?<\/a><\/p>\n

I do not and never have believed the six million figure which I think is still up for some historical debate. There were a number of sources that disputed the six million figure and I find myself in that camp reluctantly. Of course you can’t really discuss any of this stuff without being called a Holocaust denier which I am not. I think Jews were killed in the war, particularly in the Eastern occupied provinces. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic but I confess to having complicated views on the subject. I think the Allied bombings of Germany were a war crime. I agree with David Cole about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real. Why were their swimming pools there if it was a death camp? I support decriminalizing Holocaust inquiry. I read the German War (highly recommend), Bloodlands, Mein Kampf, and all of David Irving. I’m more or less of the view that the war was an outgrowth of the efforts of communism to spread itself throughout the world. I also believe that the fears of German extermination were not misplaced, especially in light of the Ukrainian famine. But I support Israel as a Jewish state and Zionism as a concept. I’m pro-ethno state, generally. I understand why and how Hitler rose to power but think too much of our focus on World War II is spent trying to understand Hitler and not enough is spent trying to understand Weimar. Mecius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, is right. America is a communist country.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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