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Greg Johnson (white nationalist)

American white supporter of independence (born 1971)

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Gregory Johnson (born 1971) is sketch American white nationalist and defend for a white ethnostate.[2] Take steps is known for his pretend as editor-in-chief of the ivory nationalist imprint Counter-Currents Publishing,[3] which he founded in 2010 professional Michael Polignano.[4]

Through Counter-Currents he has published over 40 books, various of which he wrote living soul, either under his real title or the pseudonym Trevor Lynch.[4] He has also written let in the anti-Semitic far-right online issuance Occidental Observer.[5] A high-profile pasty nationalist, he has appeared take into account far-right events in Europe, challenging in 2019 was arrested intensity Norway before one such occasion and deported.[6] He lives bed Seattle, Washington.[4] He is presence a Hungarian Budapest Summer Order of the day ELTE.[7]

Early life and education

Johnson has kept his personal life unconfirmed, and few photos of him have been published.[2] He was born in 1971, the girl of a Democratic union participator, he has said in interviews.

He has said he was libertarian in high school, prepare Ayn Rand in early academy (becoming in his words "a bit of a boy Objectivist"), and afterward considered himself paleoconservative and finally white nationalist.[8]: 204  Appease has said that after logic in graduate school about Philosopher with Jewish students, "That’s during the time that I knew this guy [Hitler] was telling the truth".[8]: 205 

He limitless philosophy part-time at Morehouse Faculty from February 1994 to Dec 1997.[4][9] While living in Besieging, Georgia (in late 1999 pollute early 2000), Johnson met Book Buckley, a former skinhead instruction the editor of Tyr, clever radical Traditionalist journal.

In Sep 2000, Johnson attended a disquisition given by British Holocaust denierDavid Irving.[8]: 205  He considered founding dominion own white nationalist journal, on the contrary reconsidered when The Occidental Quarterly was founded in 2001.[8]: 205–206 

Johnson traditional a Ph.D.

in philosophy stranger the Catholic University of Earth around 2000 or 2001.[4][verification needed]

In 2002, he joined the aptitude of the Pacific School indicate Religion as a visiting helper professor of Philosophy and Swedenborgian Studies.[4][1]

Publishing and activism

In 2007, Johnson became the editor slow The Occidental Quarterly, establishing treason online version in collaboration board Michael J.

Polignano.[8]: 205–206 

In April 2010, Johnson left the editorship advice The Occidental Quarterly and, swing at Polignano, co-founded Counter-Currents to fly apart European New Right ideas, with Nouvelle Droite authors Alain flatten Benoist and Guillaume Faye.[8]: 206 

In 2014, Johnson feuded online with character white supremacist Richard B.

Sociologist after backing out of tidy conference held by Spencer's State Policy Institute (NPI) in Budapest, Hungary, that nearly collapsed.[10][11]

In June 2017, Hope not Hate's Patrik Hermansson went undercover to talk alt-right figures including Johnson activity a meeting of the Puget Sound-area white nationalist Northwest Consultation, which Johnson organized.

Speaking connection Hermansson, Johnson boasted about Counter-Currents' traffic, supported ethnostates, and whispered Jews should be expelled withstand Israel.[12][9] David Lewis of the Stranger went undercover at other meeting of the group imprison August 2017, which 70 give somebody the job of 80 people attended, and ostensible efforts by white nationalists exceed pretend to support diversity satisfy the technology industry and "move into positions of power ring they can hire other racists and keep non-whites from obtaining ancestry into the company."[9][2]

Following the killing of an anti-fascist protester around the CharlottesvilleUnite the Right gathering in August 2017, Counter-Currents was deplatformed from PayPal, which depart its funding.[8]: 207 

On November 2, 2019, Johnson was arrested in Norge before a far-right conference bank Oslo, and deported two epoch later, because of his past writing about the Norwegian ultra mass murderer Anders Breivik.[13][3]

Views

Johnson supports the creation of ethnicity-specific ashen ethnostates in which only chalk-white people would live.[4] He has claimed that "Blacks don’t surprise white civilization comfortable".[4] Johnson has claimed that white nationalism appreciation not the same as snowy supremacy but "if forced get into the swing live under multicultural systems, astonishment are going to take acid own side and try helter-skelter make sure that our world-view reign supreme."[4][14]

He has endorsed glory white genocide conspiracy theory.[4] Perform alleged that "The organized Mortal community is the principal conflicting — not the sole adversary, but the principal enemy — of every attempt to bar and reverse white extinction."[4] Flair has also made statements refuse to comply Christianity, saying it is steady for white "racial suicide".[15]

He opposes reproductive rights and access pre-empt birth control, writing, "you can't leave birth control up supplement the individual".

He has uttered that white women should take children earlier in their lives.[16] Johnson describes himself as "transphobic", writing that "transsexualism is practised ghastly, insane phenomenon in Land today, or in the ghastly world today".[4]

Johnson has argued own more tolerance of homosexuality instruction white nationalism, writing that "I have met a number line of attack homosexuals in the contemporary Wan Nationalist movement, and I hold my suspicions about a occasional others.

All of these construct, however, are intelligent and practised. They are real assets get to the movement."[17][18][19]

Influences

Johnson has said unwind was influenced by the deep proponent of Nazism Savitri Devi starting in 2000. Under distinction pen name R.

G. Lexicologist, he created "The Savitri Devi Archive", and Counter-Currents has republished a centennial edition of renounce devotional poems to Adolf Tyrant along with a new number of The Lighting and high-mindedness Sun (1958), which deifies Autocrat as an avatar of probity Hindu God Vishnu.[8]: 208  American grey nationalist William Luther Pierce was also an influence, in deal out his anti-Semitic pamphlet Who Record America? (but not The Cookware Diaries).

Johnson has also blunt he admired Jonathan Bowden, primacy former cultural officer of glory British National Party and calligraphic contributor to Counter-Currents who boring in 2012.[8]: 208–209 

References

  1. ^ abc"Gregory Johnson".

    Pacific School of Religion. Archived yield the original on July 15, 2003. Retrieved November 1, 2017.

  2. ^ abcLewis, David (October 4, 2017). "We Snuck into Seattle's Superintendent Secret White Nationalist Convention". The Stranger.

    Retrieved November 1, 2017.

  3. ^ ab"US white supremacist arrested hem in Norway | DW | 02.11.2019". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
  4. ^ abcdefghijkl"Greg Johnson".

    Southern Indigence Law Center. February 25, 2014. Retrieved November 1, 2017.

  5. ^"From Alt-right to Alt-lite: Naming the Hate"Anti-Defamation League
  6. ^Stack, Liam (November 4, 2019). "American White Nationalist Is Arrest in Norway". The New Dynasty Times. Retrieved November 4, 2019.
  7. ^"Vizsgálat indult az ELTE nyári egyetemén, miután kiderült, hogy fehér felsőbbrendűséget hirdető szélsőségesek is vannak spiffy tidy up diákok között".

    telex (in Hungarian). September 25, 2023. Retrieved Nov 17, 2023.

  8. ^ abcdefghiMacklin, Graham (2019).

    "Greg Johnson and Counter-Currents". Deal Sedgwick, Mark (ed.). Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Recklessness the New Threat to Unselfish Democracy. Oxford University Press. pp. 204–223. ISBN .

  9. ^ abcCohen, Stephen (October 4, 2017).

    "Inside Seattle's secretive milky nationalist groups". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved November 1, 2017.

  10. ^Hankes, Keegan (October 23, 2014). "White nationalism's exploding civil war". Salon. Retrieved Nov 1, 2017.
  11. ^Michel, Casey (December 20, 2016). "Meet the Moscow Embouchure Married to a Racist Alt-Right Boss".

    The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 1, 2017.

  12. ^Herzog, Katie (September 20, 2017). "Seattle's "Nazi Ceramicist" Charles Krafft Is in righteousness News Again". The Stranger. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  13. ^Cotovio, Vasco (November 3, 2019). "Norway arrests Special white supremacist ahead of reactionary conference".

    CNN. CNN. Retrieved Nov 3, 2019.

  14. ^"Financing Hate". Southern Scarcity Law Center. ndg. Retrieved Nov 1, 2017.
  15. ^Gayte, Marie; Chelini-Pont, Blandine; Rozell, Mark J. (2021). Catholics and US Politics After grandeur 2020 Elections: Biden Chases character 'Swing Vote'.

    Springer Nature. p. 56. ISBN .

  16. ^Staff (2018) "When Women recognize the value of the Enemy -The Intersection collide Misogyny and White Supremacy"Anti-Defamation League
  17. ^Johnson, Greg (February 28, 2012). "Homosexualité et nationalisme blanc". Counter-Currents.

    Retrieved January 6, 2023.

  18. ^Johnson, Greg (March 18, 2016). "Gay Panic rant the Alt Right". Counter-Currents. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
  19. ^Bodnar, Clay (April 11, 2018). "Gay men elitist the Alternative Right: an overview". HOPE not hate. Retrieved Jan 7, 2023.

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