Mike Enoch

Mike Peinovich, commonly known by his pseudonym Mike Enoch, is an American white nationalist blogger and podcast host. He founded the alt-right media hub The Right Stuff and podcast The Daily Shoah.

In January 2017, Peinovich's personal information was leaked, revealing that his wife was Jewish. Peinovich's career, livelihood and reputation were seriously threatened, although he has remained active since then.

The Right Stuff

First launched in 2012, The Right Stuff describes itself as "a political and cultural blog" covering topics such as nationalism, political correctness and race relations which was founded on a core principle of ethnic nationalism.[1][2][3] It has been described as "a major hub for the dissemination of alt-right materials",[1] and the blog also hosts and maintains a lexicon defining jargon used by its own publications as well as the wider alt-right movement.[4] The website is funded primarily by donations from its audience.[3]

The Right Stuff was one of the first websites to make use of the term "cuckservative", long before the epithet attracted mainstream attention.[5][6] The Anti-Defamation League notes that The Right Stuff, like other similar organizations including Identity Evropa and Vanguard America, has also coalesced into a network of regional groups to coordinate activities in the real world, such as posting fliers promoting "white heritage" in various cities and universities in the United States.[7]

The Daily Shoah

First broadcast in August 2014 and published weekly (and later twice weekly),[8] The Daily Shoah's name is a parody of The Daily Show and uses the Hebrew language word referring to the Holocaust.[9] According to Mike Enoch, he originally created it to be "an edgy libertarian podcast". He recalled that he first began to understand issues of Jewish influence on society around Episode 19 after reading The Culture of Critique by psychology professor Kevin B. MacDonald.[10][11]

On the show Enoch, along with co-host Seventh Son and a rotating panel of co-hosts and guests (known as "the Death Panel") has addressed topics such as immigration, white nationalism, race relations, feminism, Zionism, anti-globalization and political correctness.[2]

The podcast is widely credited with creating the triple parentheses meme, also known as (((echo))), an antisemitic symbol that has been used to highlight the names of individuals of a Jewish background or Jewish faith.[12][13][14]

As of January 2017, The Daily Shoah reportedly had an audience of 100,000 listeners.[3]

Doxxing incident

In January 2017, users of the imageboard website 8chan leaked the identities of several of its key contributors, including Peinovich, and revealed that his wife was of Jewish ancestry.[15][16] Other information released included the names of his family members, his job as a software developer, home address on Manhattan's Upper East Side neighborhood, and his hometown of Montclair, New Jersey.[17] After initially attempting to deny the reports, Peinovich later admitted that the allegations were true.[3] Though Peinovich initially planned to leave the network, he quickly changed his mind and vowed to continue his activities.[18]

In an audio statement released on their podcast, Daily Shoah co-host Seventh Son announced that Peinovich and his wife were separating.[18][10] The revelation was met with mixed but mostly supportive reactions from fellow alt-right leaders, including David Duke,[19] and Richard B. Spencer.[18]

Political activities

After U.S. Congressman Steve King tweeted praise for Netherlands political candidate Geert Wilders's strong stance against further immigration to Europe, Peinovich joined other alt-right voices in approval of King's position, stating "King doubles down. Great job. Take note cucks, this is how you *actually* fight the left."[20]

He had expressed support for Donald Trump during the presidential election and the first months of his term, but has disavowed him after Donald Trump ordered airstrikes in Syria. On March 9, Enoch took part in an anti-war protest opposing the 2017 Shayrat missile strike, in which 59 Tomahawk Cruise missiles were launched by the United States against the Shayrat Airbase controlled by Bashar al-Assad and his forces.[21][22] The protest, organized by Richard B. Spencer, was counter-protested by anti-fascist activists.[21][22] On the next episode of The Daily Shoah, Enoch and Spencer railed against the perceived attitudes of mainstream conservatives, especially Baby Boomers, and spoke about the growing (and, in their opinions, undue) influence of Ivanka Trump and Senior Adviser Jared Kushner on President Donald Trump,[23][24] as well as neoconservative and Zionist elements in the United States Government.[25] He also commented that the alt-right was now "the only legitimate anti-war movement in the United States," and that the antifa counter-protesters supported Trump and the military strike by virtue of counter-protesting an anti-war demonstration.[25]

On April 18, 2017, Enoch joined Richard B. Spencer in giving a talk at Auburn University where he expressed that he and the movement were breaking away from the new direction that the Trump administration was taking.[26] While Auburn administration had initially cancelled the planned event, citing safety concerns, Enoch assisted Spencer in filing a lawsuit on First Amendment grounds.[26] United States federal judge William Keith Watkins issued a ruling requiring Auburn to allow Spencer and Enoch to speak.[27]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Wilson, Jason (August 23, 2016). "A sense that white identity is under attack’: making sense of the alt-right". The Guardian. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  2. 1 2 "About Us". The Right Stuff. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Palmer, Ewan (January 17, 2017). "Founder of Neo-Nazi blog quits after he was revealed to have Jewish wife". International Business Times UK. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Krieg, Gregory (August 25, 2016). "Clinton is attacking the 'Alt-Right' – What is it?". CNN. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Getting Cucky: A Brief Primer On The Radical Right's Newest 'Cuckservative' Meme | Southern Poverty Law Center". Splcenter.org. August 7, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  6. ↑ Weigel, David (July 29, 2015). "'Cuckservative' — the conservative insult of the month, explained". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Alt Right Moving From Online to Real-World Activity". Anti-Defamation League. February 13, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017. During the fall of 2016 up until the present, people associated with alt right groups such as Identity Evropa, American Vanguard and The Right Stuff (TRS) have been posting fliers that promote "white heritage" at campuses around the country. TRS is a website but some of its followers have cohered into something like a real-world group.
  8. ↑ Seventh Son (August 3, 2014). "The Daily Shoah! Episode 1". The Daily Shoah. The Right Stuff Radio. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ "For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation". The New York Times.
  10. 1 2 Seventh Son (January 17, 2017). "The Sorta Shoah". The Right Stuff. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  11. ↑ Musonius Rufus (January 18, 2017). "Rebel Shoah 20170118 Fashy Struggle Session". SoundCloud. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  12. ↑ Fleishman, Cooper; Smith, Anthony (June 1, 2016). "(((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online". Mic.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  13. ↑ Anti-Defamation League. "Echo". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ Fleishman, Cooper; Smith, Anthony (June 6, 2016). "The Neo-Nazi (((Echoes))) Symbol Is Officially Hate Speech". Mic.com. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  15. ↑ Sheffield, Matthew. "The alt-right eats its own: Neo-Nazi podcaster "Mike Enoch" quits after doxxers reveal his wife is Jewish". Salon.
  16. ↑ "White supremacist outed for having Jewish wife". The Times of Israel. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  17. ↑ Dan Friedman (January 15, 2017). "Racist Rivals Claim Neo-Nazi Media Kingpin Lives on Upper East Side With His Jewish Wife". The Forward. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  18. 1 2 3 Sheffield, Matthew. "Disgraced Neo-Nazi pundit "Mike Enoch" vows to expand racist podcast network, despite alt-right doxxing war". Salon. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  19. ↑ "Neo-Nazi blog struggles after founder's wife identified as Jewish". NY Daily News. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  20. ↑ "White Supremacists Praise Rep. Steve King’s Racist Tweet". Anti-Defamation League. March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  21. 1 2 Cernovich, Mike (April 8, 2017). "Violence! ANTIFA and Alt-Right Clash During Anti-War Rally, Multiple Arrests Reported". Medium. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  22. 1 2 Wallace, Hunter (April 9, 2017). "Antifa Protest Alt-Right For Protesting Trump’s Syrian Intervention". AltRight.com. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  23. ↑ Baker, Peter; Thrush, Glenn; Haberman, Maggie (April 15, 2017). "Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump: Pillars of Family-Driven West Wing". nytimes.com. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  24. ↑ Dawsey, Josh; Vogel, Kenneth P.; Isenstadt, Alex (April 1, 2017). "Kushner’s privileged status stokes resentment in White House". POLITICO. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  25. 1 2 Seventh Son (April 11, 2017). "THE DAILY SHOAH #146: Soldiers of Foreskin". radio.therightstuff.biz. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  26. 1 2 "The Alt-Right and Donald Trump Get a Divorce". New Republic. April 26, 2017. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  27. ↑ Travis M. Andrews (April 19, 2017). "Federal judge stops Auburn from canceling white nationalist Richard Spencer speech. Protests and a scuffle greet him.". Washington Post. Retrieved May 1, 2017. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday barred Auburn from blocking Spencer, stating there was no evidence that he advocates violence. “Discrimination on the basis of message content cannot be tolerated under the First Amendment,” he wrote in the ruling.
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