The Right Stuff is a white nationalist blog 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. It is part of the broader alt-right movement in the United States.
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Beliefs
The website supports white nationalism and is a supporter of the belief of racialism, believing that races have different strengths and advantages, including in intelligence and strength. The website opposes miscegenation, along with favoring a return to a form of monarchy or fascist government to preserve what they see as racial purity of the white race. The blog in the past has voiced opposition to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, preferring for the United States of America to move to a white-only immigration policy, along with a ethnic cleansing to make America a white ethnic state. The website is an extensive opponent of Zionism and the existence of the nation of Israel, and considers Jewish influence the main reason for social liberalism and decline of the white population in the United States. The site also supports white supremacism, and Neo-Nazism.
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. It has been described as "a major hub for the dissemination of alt-right materials", and according to owner Mike Enoch had a core principle of ethnic nationalism. The blog also hosts and maintains a lexicon defining jargon used by its publications as well as the wider alt-right movement.
The Right Stuff was one of the first websites to make use of the term "cuckservative", long before the epithet attracted mainstream attention. 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 the conservative website Breitbart posted the video, it was subsequently promoted by other commentators as well, such as former Republican Representative Michele Bachmann and radio host and Washington Times columnist Steve Deace.
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) is a weekly podcast co-hosted by Jazzhands McFeels and Marcus Halberstram. 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 Chuck Johnson, congressional candidate Paul Nehlen and television personality Tila Tequila. They also include a regular segment known as The Europa Report, which presents news concerning the ongoing European migrant crisis, in addition to musician White Hot Takes singing popular songs with lyrics rewritten to contain white nationalist and white supremacist themes. As of August 2016, Fash The Nation was the number one on the up-and-coming list of News & Politics podcast on SoundCloud.
After the doxxing of many prominent members of the network, Fash the Nation was permanently shut down and its website taken offline.
The Daily Shoah
First broadcast in August 2014 and published weekly, The Daily Shoah (whose name is a parody of The Daily Show and mocks the Holocaust) has addressed topics such as immigration, white nationalism, race relations, feminism, Zionism, anti-globalization and political correctness. 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. 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. The Anti-Defamation League has listed the Echo on its database of hate symbols.
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.
Doxxing incident
Parts of the website briefly ceased operations on January 15, 2017 after information was leaked to media sources revealing the real name of website owner Mike Enoch, and that he was, at the time, married to a Jewish woman. After the incident, some followers reacted angrily, including creating offensively edited images and leaving the website in response. Andrew Anglin of The Daily Stormer, an alt-right website, expressed support for TRS while reporting on the incident.
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. On the show, Enoch stated that he was of partial Serbian descent.
Alt-right
The website has significant ties to Andrew Anglin's The Daily Stormer and the blog has collaborated extensively with it. During the doxxing of several members of the site, it defended the website in significant ways.
Daily Wire
Michael Knowles of the conservative website The Daily Wire criticized the website, saying it asks "conservatives to trade God for racial identity" and that it's the "flip-side of the leftist identity politics that conservatives have so long decried."