Brett Stevens

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Brett Stevens edits the blog Amerika.org, a far-right site that describes itself as a "more extreme" version of the neo-Nazi forum Iron March and which helped facilitate the LD50 conference. Stevens inspired and expressed admiration for Anders Breivik, the far-right terrorist who killed 77 in Oslo in 2011.

Amerika.org[]

The logo as seen on the homepage of Amerika.org

Stevens edits the blog Amerika.org, a far-right site that describes itself as a "more extreme" version of the neo-Nazi forum Iron March. Iron March was an explicitly fascist and neo-Nazi forum that the SPLC has linked to over a hundred hate murders. A year after Iron March was shut down, an unknown source leaked user information from the site, including email addresses. Stevens used these emails to reach out to former Iron March users, suggesting that, "If you liked the Iron March forum, you might find Amerika.org to be even more extreme.... We are Nietzschean, pro-Western, and anti-egalitarian. While our approach is more traditionalist than National Socialist, it is uncompromising." The Daily Dot describes Amerika.org as a site promoting the establishment of a caste system, the expulsion of US citizens to their ancestors' countries, the end of global immigration and trade, and support of what the site terms a "new hierarchy" that places a small number of people at the top of society. As for the writing on the site, The Daily Dot describes it as long-winded and nonsensical.[1]

LD50[]

Stevens presented a talk titled 'The Black Pill' at the 2018 LD50 arts conference and helped promote and gatekeep the event on Amerika.org. The title of Stevens' talk references the term used in manosphere and anti-feminist circles inspired from the term in The Matrix. In these contexts, "the red pill" means accepting truth of these ideologies, beyond which Stevens drew a further boundary with "The Black Pill", describing this further pill as rejection of every possibility of 'illusion' and 'positive action' in a manner amounting to total nihilism. Stevens presented alongside Iben Thranholm, VDARE founder Peter Brimelow, Mark Citadel, and neo-reactionary Nick Land.[2][3]

Influence and influences[]

Anders Breivik, the neo-Nazi, who murdered 77 in a 2011 terrorist attack in Oslo, described Stevens' writings as inspirational. Following the attack, Stevens described himself as "so honored to be so mentioned by someone who is clearly far braver than I".[3][2]

Stevens says that the alt-right as a whole philosophically descends from deep ecology, and Stevens fuses deep ecology ideology with his white supremacist writings and perspectives. For instance, he translates and merges deep ecology ideas of species extinction and habitat loss into facets of the Great Replacement conspiracy such as white genocide and the replacement of 'indigenous' white people with 'invasive' foreigners.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Reed, Jason (8 November 2019). "The neo-Nazi data dump has been a boon to Nazi recruiters". The Daily Dot.
  2. ^ a b Gogarty, Larne Abse (April 2017). "The Art Right". Art Monthly. No. 405.
  3. ^ a b Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (22 February 2017). "Art gallery criticised over neo-Nazi artwork and hosting racist speakers". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Forchtner, Bernhard (10 September 2019). The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-10402-9.
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