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blondebanshee

(353 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:11 AM Aug 2019

U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement, Hatewatch Determines

A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online, Hatewatch has determined.

The official, Matthew Q. Gebert, works as a foreign affairs officer assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources, a State Department spokesperson told Hatewatch. Online, and in private correspondences with other white nationalists, Gebert uses “Coach Finstock” as a pseudonym. Through that alias, he expressed a desire to build a country for whites only.

“[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split,” “Coach Finstock” said on a May 2018 episode of “The Fatherland,” a white nationalist podcast. “That’s all that we need. We need a country founded for white people with a nuclear deterrent. And you watch how the world trembles.”

Gebert joined the State Department in 2013 as a presidential management fellow, according to an alumni update published about him in George Washington University’s GW Magazine that summer. Presidential management fellowships are considered prestigious. The program has a "narrow focus - developing a cadre of potential government leaders," according to a website devoted to the program.


[link:https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/06/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines|

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U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement, Hatewatch Determines (Original Post) blondebanshee Aug 2019 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Aug 2019 #1
Good. Expose this cockroach dalton99a Aug 2019 #2
It doesn't say "former state department official" AJT Aug 2019 #3
This article is really disturbing. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #4
Yes as I stated below underpants Aug 2019 #7
No skin tight slacks today. Long, black dress. True Blue American Aug 2019 #5
? The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #8
Melania outfit! True Blue American Aug 2019 #9
Damn. They did their homework on this underpants Aug 2019 #6
magazi bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #10
Hired during OBAMA'S watch. I just knew it !!!!! pangaia Aug 2019 #11
And his middle initial is Q!!! Mass arrests are coming!!!!1!!!1! Initech Aug 2019 #13
When Dems take power again getting Him off the bench is a priority. Pepsidog Aug 2019 #12
K&R UTUSN Aug 2019 #14

AJT

(5,240 posts)
3. It doesn't say "former state department official"
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:27 AM
Aug 2019

so I take it he still works there. He'll probably get a promotion now.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,829 posts)
4. This article is really disturbing.
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:29 AM
Aug 2019

These people aren't just a bunch of overweight fake-militia trash playing soldier in the woods; they're getting into everything, including, apparently, the State Department.

@WeWonFam also posted about attending an event that weekend linked to Richard Spencer’s group National Policy Institute, referring to it as the “Shitlord hajj.” Richard Spencer is arguably America’s most infamous white nationalist, and National Policy Institute is a think tank he oversees. The event to which @WeWonFam referred appears to be one staged in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 19, two days later. Attendees at that gathering gave Hitler-salutes and shouted “Hail Trump!” according to video footage published by The Atlantic.


Trump is Hitler, to them.

underpants

(182,868 posts)
7. Yes as I stated below
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:37 AM
Aug 2019

They really did their homework on this.

Odd that State was where McCarthy thought most of the Commies were.

True Blue American

(17,988 posts)
5. No skin tight slacks today. Long, black dress.
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:30 AM
Aug 2019

She is going to be mighty hot.

They have those Welcome to Toledo right in front.




underpants

(182,868 posts)
6. Damn. They did their homework on this
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 11:35 AM
Aug 2019

He seems to have risen quickly with that scum since turning in 2015.

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