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The Right Stuff is an alt-right media hub that hosts several podcasts, including The Daily Shoah. The blog is best known for popularizing the use of "echoes", an antisemitic marker which uses triple parentheses around names used to identify Jews and people of the Jewish faith on social media.[1][2][3] It is part of the broader alt-right movement. [4][5]

Blog and Overview

In December 2012, The Right Stuff described itself as "a political and cultural blog" which aims to create a dialogue uniting the alternative right, as well as deliberately offending what they saw as the regressive left and political correctness.[6] It has been described as "a major hub for the dissemination of alt-right materials",[7] and according to owner Mike Enoch had a core principle of ethnic nationalism.[7] The blog also hosts and maintains a lexicon defining jargon used by its publications as well as the wider alt-right movement.[8]

The Right Stuff was one of the first websites to make use of the term "cuckservative", long before the epithet attracted mainstream attention.[9][10] In addition, the blog was an early proponent of propaganda film With Open Gates, a video which attacks multiculturalism and Middle Eastern refugees in Europe, and implies that Jewish organizations are responsible for both. The video was created by 8chan user Gex and was initially promoted primarily on neo-Nazi and white supremacist sites such as The Daily Stormer, Stormfront, American Renaissance and Vanguard News Network.After Breitbart posted the video, it was subsequently promoted by other commentators as well, such as former Representative Michele Bachmann and radio host and Washington Times columnist Steve Deace.[11]

Podcasts

Fash The Nation

Launched in August 2015, Fash The Nation ("fash" being an abbreviation for fascist and the name being a play on political talk show Face the Nation)[12] is a weekly podcast co-hosted by Jazzhands McFeels[13] and Marcus Halberstam.[12][14] The pair offer political commentary and extensive coverage of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, as well as conducting interviews with controversial political figures such as journalist Charles C. Johnson, congressional candidate Paul Nehlen and television personality Tila Tequila.[15] They also include a regular segment known as The Europa Report, which presents news concerning the ongoing European migrant crisis,[16] in addition to musician White Hot Takes singing popular songs with lyrics rewritten to contain white nationalist and white supremacist themes.[17] As of August 2016, Fash The Nation was the number one on the up-and-coming list of News & Politics podcast on SoundCloud.[18]

After the doxxing of many prominent members of the network, Fash the Nation was shut down and its website taken offline.[19]

The Daily Shoah

See also: Triple parentheses

First broadcast in August 2014 and published weekly,[20] The Daily Shoah (whose name is a parody of The Daily Show and mocks the Holocaust)[21] has addressed topics such as immigration, white nationalism, race relations, feminism, Zionism, anti-globalization and political correctness.[6] 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.[22] This originated in a Daily Shoah segment called The Merchant Minute, in which Jewish-sounding names were pronounced in a cartoonish voice to stand out from other names, as well as having an audial echo effect applied to them.[22] The Anti-Defamation League has listed the Echo on its database of hate symbols.[23][24]

In an e-mail interview with Mic, a TRS editor described the parentheses as symbolic:

The inner parenthesis represent the Jews' subversion of the home [and] destruction of the family through mass-media degeneracy. The next [parenthesis] represents the destruction of the nation through mass immigration, and the outer [parenthesis] represents international Jewry and world Zionism.[1]

Doxxing Incident

Parts of the website briefly ceased operations on January 15th, 2017 after information was leaked to media sources revealing the identity of website owner Mike Enoch and his current marriage to a Jewish woman.[25] After the incident, some followers reacted angrily, including creating offensively edited images and leaving the website in response.[26] Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer, an alt-right website, expressed support for TRS while reporting on the incident.[19]

After initially telling private members that he would be leaving the website, it was later announced that Enoch and his wife were separated, and that he would remain on The Daily Shoah and explain the situation from his perspective.[27] On the show, Enoch described himself as of Serbian descent.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "(((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online". Mic.com. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  2. ^ Joshua Eaton (6 June 2016). "Secret Neo-Nazi Message on Social Media: (((Echoes))) - Anti-Semitism". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Anti-Semitic Chrome extension highlighted Jews for attack online". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  4. ^ Palmer, Ewan (17 January 2017). "Founder of Neo-Nazi blog quits after he was revealed to have Jewish wife". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  5. ^ CNN, Sara Ganim and Chris Welch. "How white nationalists are losing faith in Trump". CNN. Retrieved 18 January 2017. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ a b "About Us". The Right Stuff. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  7. ^ a b Wilson, Jason (23 August 2016). "A sense that white identity is under attack': making sense of the alt-right". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  8. ^ Krieg, Gregory (25 August 2016). "Clinton is attacking the 'Alt-Right' – What is it?". CNN. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  9. ^ "Getting Cucky: A Brief Primer On The Radical Right's Newest 'Cuckservative' Meme | Southern Poverty Law Center". Splcenter.org. 7 August 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  10. ^ Weigel, David (29 July 2015). "'Cuckservative' — the conservative insult of the month, explained". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  11. ^ "the right stuff » ADL Blogs". Blog.adl.org. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  12. ^ a b Yablon, Alex (6 April 2016). "The Trump-Loving 'Alt-Right' Turns to Guns to Piss People Off". Vice. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  13. ^ Krey, Patrick (17 August 2016). "The GOP Factional Divide". The New American. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  14. ^ "Team Members – Fash the Nation". Fashthenation.com. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  15. ^ "Interviews – Fash the Nation". Fashthenation.com. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  16. ^ "The Europa Report – Fash the Nation". Fashthenation.com. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  17. ^ "White Hot Takes – Fash the Nation". Fashthenation.com. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  18. ^ "The most played in News & Politics on SoundCloud this week". 30 August 2016. Archived from the original (screenshot) on 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  19. ^ a b "Here's the Thing". Daily Stormer. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  20. ^ Seventh Son (3 August 2014). "The Daily Shoah! Episode 1". The Daily Shoah. The Right Stuff Radio. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  21. ^ "For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation". The New York Times.
  22. ^ a b Fleishman, Cooper; Smith, Anthony (1 June 2016). "(((Echoes))), Exposed: The Secret Symbol Neo-Nazis Use to Target Jews Online". Mic.com. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  23. ^ Anti-Defamation League. "Echo". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  24. ^ Fleishman, Cooper; Smith, Anthony (6 June 2016). "The Neo-Nazi (((Echoes))) Symbol Is Officially Hate Speech". Mic.com. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  25. ^ "White supremacist outed for having Jewish wife". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  26. ^ "Neo-Nazi blog struggles after founder's wife identified as Jewish". NY Daily News. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  27. ^ Seventh Son (17 January 2017). "The Sorta Shoah". The Right Stuff. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
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