Current Events > Neo-Nazi and National Front organizer comes out as gay, reveals Jewish heritage.

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https://www.channel4.com/news/neo-nazi-national-front-organiser-quits-movement-comes-out-as-gay-kevin-wilshaw-jewish-heritage

After a lifetime of involvement with the far-right Kevin Wilshaw announces on Channel 4 News that he is leaving the movement at the same time publicly coming out as gay.

On an application form to join the National Front, he wrote about his hatred of the Jews.

That term the Jews is the global faceless mass of people you cant personalise it, not individuals. Thats the generalisation that leads to 6 million people being deliberately murdered.

I didnt have many friends at school, I wanted to be a member of a group of people that had an aim, and I thought getting involved in that kind of thing would be comradeship.

Even though you end up being a group of people that through their own extreme views are cut off from society, you do have a sense of comradeship in that youre a member of a group thats being attacked by other people.

Its a terribly selfish thing to say but its true, I saw people being abused, shouted at, spat at in the street its not until its directed at you that you suddenly realise that what youre doing is wrong.

You have other members leading National Front who are overtly gay. And nobody could see the contradiction of it that you have an overtly gay person leading a homophobic organisation, makes no sense.

He said he had hurt people, but not unprovoked, in defence. In a by-election in Leeds I smashed a chair over someones head.

But he denied ever having approached minorities and assaulted them.

Id never do that, but I have seen incidents where people were singled out because they were black by a group of people. It turned my stomach, I rejected that, I pushed it to the back of my mind.

Mr Wilshaw was arrested for vandalising a mosque in Aylesbury in the early 1990s and in March this year he was arrested for online race hate offences.

I feel appallingly guilty as well, I really do feel guilty, not only that, this is also a barrier to me having a relationship with my own family, and I want to get rid of it, its too much of a weight.
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Good for him to realize his mistakes.
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