In his email to VDare, Roach alleges that AFF executive director David Kirby fired him over comments Roach made in a post on the paleoconservative blog Eunomia, claiming that Kirby told him, “There is no place in AFF’s mission to provide space for someone who posts comments and content like this.” (AFF and Kirby did not respond to a request for comment.)
Roach did not say what the comments were, but a archived copy The comments section linked to in your email, which WIRED reviewed, featured deeply racist comments from a user named “Roach.” “America, frankly, would be a much more civilized, safe, wealthy, and orderly place, if it weren’t for its minorities,” the commenter wrote, claiming that there is “something deeply evil in the culture of black America and in the souls of black Americans.” The author denied being racist, but advocated for “special schools for blacks, higher rates of discipline for black students, different standards of discipline for black youth, black colleges, segregation in prisons, much higher rates of black incarceration, racial discrimination, and, most important of all, simply a willingness to say, ‘We will rein in blacks when they get out of control. ’”
The VDare email also asked readers to click on a link to Mansizedtarget.com, a site described as “paleoconservative observations” written by an author whose name appeared, according to archived copies, first as “Mr. Roach” and then as “Roman Dmowski.” (At one point, the Google review account linked to Roach and the Yahoo email address evidently used “mansizedtar” as a screen name, given a reply to a review in which a business owner addressed the account user by that name. After WIRED contacted Roach about the online postings, archived copies of the Mansizedtarget website were removed from the Wayback Machine.)
Over the years, Roach’s name, or a variation of his name, has appeared on various right-wing and extremist sites.
The Twitter account “Blessed Groyper” shared links on several occasions to articles Written by Christopher Roach for the American Greatness website. Roach, whose picture appears next to his byline, has been a prolific contributor, writing 337 articles over the past seven years. In the past 12 months, Roach has covered major right-wing culture war topics from opposing gun control measures to Promoting electoral conspiracies, In defense of the January 6th insurgentsand label those concerned about the spread of Covid-19 as “Fans.”
Roach describes himself as an “adjunct fellow” of the organization that publishes American Greatness, the Center for American Greatness, a right-wing think tank which has been funded with dark money. Neither the Center for American Greatness nor its publisher, Buskirk, responded to a request for comment.
Roach, as noted in his author bio on American Greatness, has also written for Taki’s Magazine, another paleoconservative blog that has hosted content from far-right figures such as Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, as well as white nationalists Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer.
An account called “Roach” was also extremely active in the comments section of the extremist website Occidental Dissent, run by Brad Griffin, a leading member of the neo-Confederate secessionist group. Southern Leaguewhich the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as a hate group.