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Independent media Unicorn Riot has released a plethora of leaked Discord chats from fascist hate group Identity Evropa, recently rebranded as American Identity Movement. Since then, antifascists have extensively researched the logs and exposed the violent members behind the Nice Respectable People Group server with the hashtag #IdentifyEvropa on Twitter. Details and doxxes of members are also being posted at the sites Identify Evropa and Panic in the Discord. Today, we’re releasing our second contribution in the ongoing process of identifying fascist members in the chats. Let’s meet south Alabama resident, ex-marine, and Identity Evropa member Jake Purvis.
The Discord Logs
In the logs, Jake goes by the username “The Lion” and his very first message reveals his name and his involvement in the marines.
He has lots to say about “white identity,” including the desire for white people to produce more children so that other races don’t outbreed whites. He thinks that people in the US ought to have a strong and united voice against immigration and he supports the indoctrination of children having a strong sense of their race and heritage, and teaching them to be racist, xenophobic, and against immigration and multiculturalism. It becomes clear in the chat by his observing non-whites in society that he’s paranoid and has a victim complex.
He also states his concern for sperm donation, believing that it allows for “the chance for a leftist to have your child and raise them as a part of the leftist brainless machine [sic]”
Something that Identity Evropa has sought to do is attempting to become a crypto-fascist organization, concealing their outright hatred, violence, and anti-Semitism. This is evidenced in part by the server name “Nice Respectable People Group.” They even had some rules in place that forbids talking about violence or displaying anti-Semitic speech. They wanted to present the public with a squeaky clean facade of gentlemanly “identitarianism,” and members have even infiltrated local Republican groups for recruitment. This much can be seen here where Jake mentions that talk of a race war can be controversial. He also reveals here that he has a fiance and that she’s originally from California and she was homeschooled. He reveals that he’s pondered the idea of homeschooling his future children, 1. because he wants to teach them “uncommon” things like fishing and camping, 2. because he doesn’t want the public education system to indoctrinate them; which is rich, as he just stated that he’s fine with it if he’s the one doing it.
He reveals here that he’s from Alabama, as well as showing bigotry toward those who have body types that he doesn’t like.
He shows here that he’s tried to talk to his fiance about white identity, trying to radicalize her into adopting fascist, “identitarian,” white identity ideals. We can only hope that, if she doesn’t see this exposition, she’ll recognize these ideas as bigoted and fascist and get as far away from Jake that she can.
Just like every other Identity Evropa member and every other fascist group out there, Jake is an anti-Semite who thinks that Jews are part of some grand global cabal that is in control of government and is corrupting culture as we know it. This is a wide conspiracy theory that’s passed around in fascist circles with no basis in reality, merely serving to scapegoat and to “other,” dehumanize, those whom they don’t like, and to justify irrational hate.
He’s seen here reading a .pdf by racist ethnonationalist Jared Taylor.
He tells us here that he’s really not fond of abortion, likely because his whole worldview is grounded in pseudo-science and misogyny. Also here, he talks about poor ole southerners being crippled by poverty after the abolishment of slavery.
In a bit of irony, he posts here that he can’t seem to understand how antifa has a victimhood complex (they don’t) and yet be so violent (they aren’t, and using violence to defend ourselves against Nazis is a valid action).
Chasing Down Jake’s Identity
We have a bit to go on from the start, as he gave us his first name, Jake, stated he was in the marines, and he has given us a link to his personal Twitter, which we have archived. On his Twitter page, we get these two pictures of him.
We don’t get a good look at his face, so we did a bit more digging. The name he gave us is Jake, and he said he’s from Alabama and that he was in the marines. The Twitter account above was last active in February. We came across this Twitter account by a Jake Purvis and it was last active in 2015, and we can see both by the picture and the biography line that this person both lives in Alabama and was going to be a marine, with what looks to be the same body type.
In digging around some more, we see that this same account gives a link to another Twitter that he runs. So, we followed it.
Continuing to hunt around, we came upon yet another account that clearly shows it’s the same person, this one with the URL as @334tacoma.
This account is locked down. Wonder why that could be. Google allows us to peer a bit into @334tacoma’s timeline. We can see the same sort of content posted all across the above accounts.
If you’re in the community, be vigilant. We put this kind of information out so the public can be knowledgeable of violent and dangerous groups and individuals.
Here are some bigger versions of the above photos.