Eric Dondero

Eric Dondero, also known as Eric Dondero-Rittberg, who is active on Twitter as Liberty-IdentitarianLiberty-Identitarian is an American far-right Islamophobic internet troll and white nationalist who runs the website Subspecieist which he describes as "right-wing paleoanthropology". The site promotes pseudoscientific racial realism as "subspecieism". Dondero argues that the human species is split into a small number of continental subspecies (races), and he argues against subspecies intermixing. In other words, he espouses a form of racial seperatism. He has been described in a Scientific American article as having sent a "colossal dump of racist abuse" to on social media.https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-internet-is-a-cesspool-of-racist-pseudoscience/ Dondero has been banned on Twitter on multiple accounts for racist trolling and hate speech. His original account with 21,000 tweets was suspended in 2015.https://archive.is/OxEXi In 2019, his second account DarwinSubspecieist was suspended.https://archive.is/YYkP8 In 2020, his third account was suspended.https://archive.is/https://twitter.com/HSubspecies Despite his multiple bans, Dondero created his fourth Twitter account "Mystery Dondero" in June 2021 and as of June 2022 has made 19,000 tweets.https://twitter.com/mysterydondero He returned in November 2022.
Dondero has an active account on Gab popular among the alt-right. Dondero also follows white nationalists on his account including Nick Griffin, Paul Ramsey, Jared Taylor and Lana Lokteff of Red Ice Creations.https://gab.com/ericdondero/following Recently he pals around on Twitter with his white supremacist friend Edward Dutton.
Dondero is an infamous troll who has gained a toxic reputation for posting inflammatory and provocative comments online.https://gawker.com/5958738/americas-only-rude-libertarian-wants-democrats-to-fuck-off-and-diehttps://twitter.com/sergfrancois/status/266799767378612224http://mojoey.blogspot.com/2012/11/libertarian-nutball-eric-dondero.htmlhttps://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/01/19/congratulations-ron-paul/#comment-112245http://emergencybackupdog.blogspot.com/2007/03/libertarian-comedian-eric-dondero-makes.htmlhttps://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=145941.msg3133284#msg3133284https://4and20blackbirds.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/creep-eric-dondero/ In 2012 he called supporters of Obama "communist pigs" and told Republican voters with dogs to let them poo on the lawns of Obama voters.http://www.thevolunteer.ca/portrait-of-a-libertarian-republican/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/11/eric-dondero-boycott-democrat-libertarian.html 
Dondero is an alleged wife-beater.https://pauliecannoli.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/has-eric-dondero-rittberg-stopped-beating-his-wife/
In June 2022 he attracted widespread criticism on social media for sending an abusive message to someone to "eat dog shit".https://twitter.com/TimHannan/status/1536396116287184896
Dondero claims to be of Jewish descent.
==Political background==
Dondero is a former Ron Paul aide who used to blog at LibertarianRepublican.https://www.thedailybeast.com/eric-dondero-is-pissed-off Ron Paul has claimed Dondero is a "disgruntled former employee who was fired."https://reason.com/2007/05/22/ron-paul-on-9-11-and-eric-dond/ Despite describing himself as a libertarian, many of Dondero's political views are against civil liberties such as freedom of religion. 
Dondero is a self-described "pro-military foreign policy libertarian" who supported the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/Dondero%20-%20Bush%20was%20right,%2005-03-03.htm He has been heavily criticised by anti-war and non-interventionist libertarians.
Exactly what libertarian values and positions Dondero thinks he holds (excluding pro-prostitution and opposing mandatory seat-belt use) is unclear… but when someone questions his libertarianism, he is known to get ultra-defensive:
According to a poster on the Ron Paul Forums who met Dondero on an email list for libertarian Republicans in Texas:
The same poster copies a creepy email they received from Dondero concerning his reason for supporting prostitution (based on his personal sex life):
===Islamophobia===
Dondero has controversially posted online he wants to destroy Islam as a religion and bomb Mecca:
A bunch of libertarian bloggers have criticised Dondero for his Islamophobic views and links to the far-right counter-jihad movement.http://wredlich.com/ny/2011/01/eric-dondero-and-the-myth-of-the-pro-defense-libertarian/https://ericdonderowatch.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/eric-dontero-love-geert-wilders/
LoonWatch have described Dondero as a "Rabid Islamophobe and Sharia Conspiracy Theory Nut".https://loonwatch.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/why-eric-dondero-former-aid-is-smearing-ron-paul-he-is-a-rabid-islamophobe-and-sharia-conspiracy-theory-nut/
Dondero is quoted as saying he wants to shut down mosques in US and deport all Muslims.http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=37931 He has also claimed "The big problem right now is Islam and Islamism invading our country. And if they want to continue to move in, we need to fight back. Their culture is coming here."http://web.archive.org/web/20120120181047/https://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/meet-the-racist-whos-calling-ron-paul-a-racist/
As of 2021, Dondero continues to support extreme policies such as deporting all Muslims from the US:
===Iraq War===
In 2005, Dondero debated Libertarian Party's Presidential nominee (1996, 2000) on the topic of the Iraq War:
Dondero has bizarrely called anyone who opposed the Iraq War, "Hitler-like" and "Stalinist authoritarian."https://delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com/2008/12/eric-dondero-labels-all-who-oppose.html?m=0
===White nationalism and ethno-state===
Dondero supports a white ethno-state and thinks the US should completely halt non-white immigration, deport all illegal immigrants and increase white fertility rates:
He has claimed supporting an ethno-state:
==Subspecieism==
Dondero on his website defines "subspecieism" as follows:
The problem is this definition is a straw man since no one denies all living humans are the same in terms of genotype or phenotype. Scientists who accept the consensus biological races do not exist in humans — don't deny human genetic variation.
==="I'm not a racist but a race realist!"===
Any pretense that Dondero is not a racist is easily refuted by his history of racism and Islamophobia on the internet spanning 20 years and links to the far-right. But Dondero insists he is not a racist. Instead, like David Duke he calls himself a 'racial realist' and claims on his website:
On the same page he denies he is a racist — dumbass Dondero exposes his real white nationalist agenda by posting a racist rant critical of non-white immigration, claiming "The situation in the British isles is especially dire" because "London is now majority non-white" and "Ireland is increasingly threatened by African migration."
Needless to say, Dondero has explicitly supported the white genocide conspiracy theory.Science must overcome it's antiwhite bigotry. Science must overcome its hatred for indigenous white Americans and Europeans. Science must overcome it's support for white replacement and white genocide. by @mysterydondero (6:50 PM - 8 Jun 2022) Twitter (archived from June 9, 2022).
===Misrepresentation of multiregional hypothesis===
Dondero has no understanding of the multiregional hypothesis and mistakenly thinks that model of human origins fits his white separatist ideology. One of the major blunders on his website is claiming multiregionalism is polygenism (e.g. "Multi-Regional sometimes referred to as Variationism or Polygenism") when the main proponents of the multiregional hypothesis, including Milford Wolpoff have always distanced themselves from polygenism and outright rejected it.http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wolpoff/Papers/Multiregional.PDF
Oddly Dondero quotes Milford Wolpoff on his website giving the false impression Wolpoff supports his batshit crazy subspecieism views. In reality, Wolpoff has put out a paper and a book denying the existence of contemporary human races.https://www.academia.edu/3762913/Paleoanthropology_and_Racehttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Race-and-Human-Evolution/Rachel-Caspari/9781416577966 Wolpoff argues human races formerly existed thousands of years ago; he notes human population structure changed at the beginning of in the Holocene and with the Neolithic Revolution. In 2013, he wrote: "the signiﬁcant population expansions and movements of the late Pleistocene and more recent times began (Hawks et al. 2007), the ancient pattern of distinct regional differences (subspecies) was obscured. One consequence is that today variation within populations is greater than variation between populations, and subspecies (biological races) do not exist."
===Supporters===
According to Dondero's website Edward Dutton is a supporter and friend.https://www.subspecieist.com/site-info/
==External links==
*Subspecieist (website)
*His Gab account
*His Ballotpedia page
*His Twitter account (banned) His latest account
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