State Department worker outed by civil rights group as a white nationalist now placed on leave

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A State Department official whom a civil rights group outed as an alleged white nationalist had been placed on leave, sources said Thursday.

The news about Matthew Q. Gebert, 38, came a day after researchers from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch program revealed he allegedly used the pseudonym “Coach Finstock” on white nationalist forums and hosted parties at his Virginia home for like-minded individuals.

The two U.S. officials familiar with Gebert's situation who confirmed to NBC News that he is on leave declined to say when he left his desk or speculate on when, or if, he might return.

Gebert, a foreign affairs officer at the Bureau of Energy Resources, has not returned several emails for comment about his case and he does not have a phone number listed for his home in Leesburg, Virginia.

Hatewatch researchers were able to link Gebert to “Coach Finstock” by tying several Twitter accounts operated with some form of that handle to him, and by playing samples of his voice from appearances as “Coach Finstock” on white nationalist podcasts such as “The Fatherland” to people who know him.

Gebert also was a leader of a Washington-area chapter of The Right Stuff, a network founded by neo-Nazi blogger Michael Peinovich, aka Mike Enoch, three sources told Hatewatch.

“[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,” Hatewatch revealed. “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.”

read more:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/state-department-worker-had-secret-other-life-white-nationalist-right-n1040101

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/07/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines

[obamanut2012]

1. This is literally the plot of The Handmaid's Tale

Scary AF.

[zaj]

2. Watch The Family, out on Netflix now

There is a diverse collection of white men terrified of losing control and ready to destroy democracy to seize it back.

White Nationalists
Libertarian Billionaires
Christian Global Empirialists

All in agreement that elite white men don't have enough control these days.

[Hortensis]

3. These days the SPLC is busier than a one-legged superherho in an ass-kicking contest.

They're doing fantastic work all over the place, and donating is of course how we can join them.

I love how cyber detectives are tracking down members and supporters of hate groups. Facebook and others have been making changes and eliminating tracking tools to make it much harder, but before long high-performance computing will likely be added to the tools of groups like this, bad news when it happens for the Gebert types.