Libertarian comedian and podcaster Dave Smith is discovering the hard way that licking the boots of the “dissident right,” groypers, and outright neo-Nazis doesn’t purchase immunity from their racial purity tests.
Despite years of fierce anti-Israel rhetoric, platforming Nick Fuentes, pushing Great Replacement narratives, and cozying up to some of the edgiest voices in the movement, Smith’s Jewish heritage, real, documented, and openly discussed, is still enough to keep him on their blacklist.
Smith was raised in Brooklyn by a single mother. His maternal grandmother survived the Holocaust. His grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who later fought in the U.S. Army during World War II. None of that history matters to the hardcore crowd. To them, blood is blood. A “good one” is still a Jew.
