Current Events > An elementary school teacher was moonlighting as a white nationalist writer

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benjamin-welton-white-nationalist-elementary-school-teacher-writer_n_60ae5e89e4b0d45b753140fb

In 2017, a writer named Sinclair Jenkins published an essay for the white supremacist website American Renaissance [Antifar's note: someone on this very board approvingly linked to this site less than a week ago] titled From Wide-Eyed Liberal to Race Realist, which described a series of political awakenings that he had experienced.

Jenkins wrote that his radicalization began in the Navy, where it angered him to see blacks be mean to his fellow white sailors. Later, in graduate school, he grew disgusted over the ingrained culture of anti-white hatred in academia. Also, once I began paying attention to the news, I started seeing why so many people in my hometown took a dim view of blacks, wrote Jenkins, who noted that he grew up somewhere in Appalachia. After Ferguson and Baltimore, I understood that pumping money into the ghetto would never fix things. Later, he said, he discovered writers like John Derbyshire and Ann Coulter, who shared his distaste for immigrants, and websites like American Renaissance and VDare, which shared his firmly held belief in the biological foundations to race, and helped shape his white nationalist worldview.

Near the end of the article, Jenkins noted that he was a teacher, an audacious admission to make in a white supremacist publication.

But Sinclair Jenkins, HuffPost has now confirmed, is really a pseudonym for Benjamin Welton, a 33-year-old Boston University history PhD candidate [Antifar's note: my alma mater!] who, until this week, taught English, social studies and computer science at Star Academy, an elementary school in Massachusetts. When HuffPost contacted the school for comment, Welton was put on leave, and was fired shortly before this article was published.

For years, he has also worked as a freelance writer for major media outlets, including The Atlantic and Vice, for whom he published articles about esoteric spy and detective novels. He also wrote pieces for the The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard, which let him make his racist sympathies clear in print.

He was meanwhile using multiple pen names to secretly author fascist screeds online, in some cases advocating violence to establish a whites-only ethnostate.

No mercy for our enemies. Do not weep, for they are not human, Welton wrote in a pseudonymous social media post on March 31, seven months into his job as an elementary school teacher. Treat those who want to abolish whiteness with the same venom if not more. They deserve medieval punishments.

Like many conservatives, Welton has expressed anger about the teaching of critical race theory in American schools. Last August, shortly before he began teaching at the Star Academy, he tweeted under a pseudonym that a return to American greatness requires defunding critical race theory. Its clear from his pseudonymous writings where his real objection lies: criticism of white people.

I now try to inject race realism into my working life, he wrote as Jenkins in the 2017 American Renaissance article. When I teach my students or write papers, I refuse to engage in cultural Marxism or in anti-white rhetoric.

A group of anti-fascist researchers, the Anonymous Comrades Collective, figured out Weltons double life and shared the details with HuffPost. Many nameless fascists today lead double lives, hiding behind avatars to promote their noxious beliefs online while holding down respectable day jobs in education, military, law enforcement, medicine or the government. But leading an extremist life online carries the risk of exposure and the fear that one day soon it may all come crashing down something it appears Welton may have anticipated.

Welton did not respond to HuffPosts repeated requests for comment. After emailing and direct-messaging him last week, he deleted all of his pseudonymous social media accounts on Twitter, Poa.st and Gab all of which he used to spew racist invective along with his LinkedIn profile, SoundCloud account, two Substacks, a BlogSpot page, and an online magazine hed recently launched for fascist fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

But the content of those pages was already saved and archived by the Anonymous Comrades Collective, who earlier this month showed HuffPost evidence they had collected indicating that Welton was not only the man behind the bylines Sinclair Jenkins, but also Jake Bowyer and Elias Kingston. His writing had started to generate interest among major figures on the far right.
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There is no evidence of Welton indoctrinating his students at Star Academy but a scathing student review posted to Docsity in 2012, while he was teaching at the University of Vermont, offers a glimpse of his teaching style.

A teacher with too many personal opinions and present them as facts, the review begins. Full of himself and misogynistic. A very unpleasant person overall. He cant help himself from spewing his: Proto-Fascist, Libertarian, Anti-Feminist and Neo-Conservative propaganda in front of the class.

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Scary that this kind of trash can infect our educational systems. I wonder how I can join the Anonymous Comrades Collective.

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Guide posted...

Scary that this kind of trash can infect our educational systems. I wonder how I can join the Anonymous Comrades Collective.

It's even more scary that these venomous monsters are all over the place. Their roots run deep, and have infected just about every field out there.

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Guide posted...

Scary that this kind of trash can infect our educational systems. I wonder how I can join the Anonymous Comrades Collective.

I mean look at the one user on here who claims to be a teacher.

Also I'm curious who linked to this site
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Bio1590 posted...

I mean look at the one user on here who claims to be a teacher.

Also I'm curious who linked to this site

Some low karma account whose name I've already forgotten. They may have been suspended/banned after that, not sure

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Intro2Logic posted...

Some low karma account whose name I've already forgotten. They may have been suspended/banned after that, not sure

Oh if it's someone like SMAL I wouldn't be surprised, I thought the implication (and why it was even mentioned) was that it was a (maybe certain) mod >_>
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Bio1590 posted...

Oh if it's someone like SMAL I wouldn't be surprised, I thought the implication (and why it was even mentioned) was that it was a (maybe certain) mod >_>

At the risk of being modded for something they did themselves, it was Ouma77.

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What did the alleged "teacher" say to get suspended/banned? Obviously with a response that doesn't violate the ToS.

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Is that really "moonlighting"? It's not like he was a professional OP-ED writer or something.

Antifar posted...

Near the end of the article, Jenkins noted that he was a teacher, an audacious admission to make in a white supremacist publication.

An audacious admission to make in any controversial place, given how often teachers are fired.

Antifar posted... He also wrote pieces for the The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard, which let him make his racist sympathies clear in print.

Uhhhh... I'm not familiar with the Weekly Standard, but from what I've seen of the Daily Caller it's not a "racist sympathizing" media outlet (and if they're lumping the two together, I'm guessing the far-left HuffPo is just attacking two conservative publications)

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Zeus posted...

but from what I've seen of the Daily Caller it's not a "racist sympathizing" media outlet

You haven't looked hard enough
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/white-nationalist-ousted-at-daily-caller-again/
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/06/many-daily-caller-writers-expressed-white-supremacist-views/

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Intro2Logic posted...

You haven't looked hard enough

Oh he's looked, he's just downplaying
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Glad we always have someone ready to slide in downplaying neo-nazi behavior. Its a tough job being that morally repugnant but hey someones gotta do it.

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