WHO'S WHO IN THE DISSIDENT RIGHT: JOSH NEAL

by Colin Liddell

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Born 1986. Real name Joshua Dietz. A well-educated, well-spoken, and personable Alt-Righter, who is nevertheless perfectly aligned with all the usual anti-Semite positions, victim mentality, and conspiritardery of the TRS wing of the Alt-Right.

He became prominent in the Dissident Right due to his association with Richard Spencer, with whom he presented some podcasts during Spencer's most Nazitard phase, the McSpencer Podcast around 2019. His real name has a rather "Semitic" resonance, as do his looks. My guess is that he is possibly quarter or half-Jewish, which is often the case with many anti-Semites (see Weev, Mike Enoch, John Daly, Frank Cohen, Kevin Wilshaw, etc).

He started out as a psychology teacher at public and private universities in New York City, which also sounds less than WASPy. He had a hypnotism practice and played in a band, which, according to doxxers, also contained a transvestite, a Black, and (another?) Jew in it.

So, there are definitely plenty of red flags for anyone who wishes to doubt the sincerity of Dietz's Neo-Nazi views.

He has published a book, called American Extremist: The Psychology of Political Extremism, which I have not read, but apparently it claims that liberals are the "real extremists." This idea is hardly original.

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