An elementary school teacher in Massachusetts was discovered and exposed as a white supremacist writer, Huffington Post reports.  

The teacher was identified by the Anonymous Comrades Collective, an anti-fascist research group, as Benjamin Welton, a Boston University PhD candidate and former first-fifth grade teacher at Star Academy. 

Welton was also a freelance writer who disguised himself under the pseudonyms “Sinclair Jenkins,” “Jake Bowyer” and “Elias Kingston” for extremist websites like American Renaissance and American Sun. 

“After Ferguson and Baltimore, I understood that pumping money into the ghetto would never fix things,” he wrote under the Jenkins alias in a 2017 piece for the American Renaissance, explaining that he became radicalized while serving in the Navy. In that same piece, he also admitted that it angered him to see “blacks" be mean to white sailors.

“I now try to inject race realism into my working life,” Welton wrote. “When I teach my students or write papers, I refuse to engage in cultural Marxism or in anti-white rhetoric.”

Welton also has connections to Poa.st, a phony version of Twitter serving mostly racist and extremists users, and VDare, an anti-immigration hate website with white nationalist ideology "dedicated to preserving our historical unity as Americans into the 21st Century."

"Once I began paying attention to the news, I started seeing why so many people in my hometown took a dim view of blacks,” he said in his 2017 article.

The 33-year-old also did freelance work for major media outlets such as The Atlantic and Vice, using his real name to publish articles about obscure spy and detective novels. In addition, Welton wrote pieces for The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard, aligning with blatantly racist sentiments.

“No mercy for our enemies. Do not weep, for they are not human,” Welton wrote in a pseudonymous social media post on March 31. “Treat those who want to abolish ‘whiteness’ with the same venom if not more. They deserve medieval punishments.” 

After Anonymous Comrade’s thorough investigation into Welton, they uncovered a photo from the now-deleted Star Academy faculty page and emphasized the details of the picture. 

“Interesting detail in the excellent Benjamin Welton deep dive: "Written on the chalkboard behind him is “Dollfuß (1934)” — a likely reference to Engelbert Dollfuss, an Austrian fascist politician who briefly served as the country’s chancellor until his assassination in 1934,” they wrote on Twitter.

Prior to firing Welton, Star Academy administrators shared they had no previous knowledge of the “concerning online publications allegedly made by a teacher at the school.” 

Star Academy, the statement continued, is “committed to a diverse and inclusive community and embraces our responsibility as an educational institution to foster a safe and healthy environment for our students. We do not support, condone, or agree with white supremacism or white separatist ideologies.” 

While Welton was teaching at The University of Vermont, one student left a review where she referred to him as “misogynistic,” and “one of the weirdest teachers I’ve ever had.”

“A teacher with too many personal opinions and presents them as facts,” a student wrote in a 2012 review on Docsity, an online social learning network. “Full of himself and misogynistic. A very unpleasant person overall. He can’t help himself from spewing his: Proto-Fascist, Libertarian, Anti-Feminist and Neo-Conservative propaganda in front of the class.”

“One of the weirdest teachers I ever had,” the review continues. “I am convinced that the only positive comment found on this site was written by Ben Welton himself. Benjamin Welton is arrogant and his egocentrism makes him treat his students merely as objects (especially us girls) to enhance his pride.”

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