The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified alternative wellness clinic owner and Vancouver Club member Joshua Lenti-Jones as a paying member of the white supremacist dating site WhiteDate.
Hazel Woodrow
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
Source: Illustration by Hazel Woodrow (WhiteDate.net; SovereignVitality/Facebook.com)
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified nearly 200 Canadian users of the white supremacist dating site, WhiteDate, which was hacked, deleted, and leaked by German antifascist hacktivist Martha Root late last year. Only one, however, was seduced by the AI chatbot Root created to extract personal information from the site’s users—Joshua Lenti-Jones, of Surrey, British Columbia.
Lenti-Jones is an Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner, and owns the Sovereign Vitality Natural Medicine clinic in Aldergrove, British Columbia. One of the most verbose Canadian users on the site, Lenti-Jones disclosed over 3000 words of personal identifying information to Root’s chatbot over the course of only five messages, in addition to the over 700 words on his profile describing himself and his ideal partner. Based on this extraordinary amount of self-disclosure, including details about his career, mother’s health history, specific hobbies, family ancestry, and more—CAHN was able to identify Lenti-Jones as the user “Redknight.”
Across his profile and messages with the chatbot, Lenti-Jones described himself as “alt-right” and “red-pilled,” and his interests as “‘far right / sexist / racist / etc’ by normal standards.”
Presumably in order to assist users in identifying likeminds, WhiteDate allowed users to select the conspiracy theories they believe in, off of a list, to appear on their profile.
Lenti-Jones selected several of these conspiracy theories, including the “White Genocide CT” and the “Every Single Time CT.”
The “White Genocide” conspiracy theory claims that Jews are conspiring to replace white people in Europe and North America with immigrants from the global south. The “Every Single Time” conspiracy theory claims that Jews are behind negative events “every single time,” or that any person viewed unfavourably by an antisemite, turns out to be Jewish.
In a profile brimming with grandiosity, Lenti-Jones introduced himself by saying that his goal was to have a “biological age of 18-25…in part because I believe the implementation of my life purpose will require that I live a very long and powerful life.
“That purpose is to catalyze not only the regeneration of a true form of Western Civilization, but for that revitalized civilization to be stronger, more dominant and sovereign than ever before. Think Indo-European ancestor culture re-organized and renewed along both scientific and spiritual, cultural lines for the conquest of the stars.”
Initiating a conversation with the chatbot called “lilmisethnostate” by saying he liked her username, Lenti-Jones immediately made clear his “strong preference for traditional roles.”
“It’s very important,” Lenti-Jones told lilmisethnostate, for his future wife to “follow my lead and embrace the guidance, direction, boundaries and decisions I create.”
This strong preference for a relationship with traditional roles and a partner who exhibits femininity and submission appears over and over again in the hundreds of Canadian WhiteDate profiles. Patriarchal traditionalism—which promotes rigid gender roles, and which considers femininity, submissiveness, and having lots of babies in a nuclear family to be the only acceptable role for women to fulfill—provides the foundation for white nationalism to reproduce itself.
In his “About Me,” he also described his ideal woman as “Honest, loyal, feminine, and driven by an intense desire to bond deeply and completely with a strong, dominant man and forge a kind of symbiotic union…masculine and feminine, dominant and submissive, blended into a kind of super being that will be the foundation of our family and life together.”
However, Lenti-Jones romanticized this dynamic more than most, writing to the bot: “I have modelled my desired marriage on a barbarian king and queen, meaning, a ferocious man and woman directing their own life together out of a kind of primeval bond, forged of a fanatical, tribalistic loyalty, raw desire and total disregard for what ‘polite society’ thinks is appropriate.
“I want a woman who is primarily interested in me, in ‘us’, knows how to make and keep agreements, embraces her femininity and a deeply feminine role, preferring her man to be in charge and leading, and prioritizes our connection over control, loves to laugh and banter, loves to surrender to her man, crack dirty jokes, trash talk, playfully spar and bring some good natured bratting.”
Continuing in his next message, he wrote “I’m a highly sexual person and extremely passionate, so for me this has to be treated as a necessity and never as optional or as a bargaining chip. partly because if both partners are genuinely faithful, they must accept full responsibility for their spouse’s sexual fulfillment and happiness, since their partner is closing off all other options.”
Lenti-Jones attributed his radicalization in part to becoming a business owner and medical practitioner, writing: “the more direct contact someone has with reality, for example having to deliver good results medically, make sound business decisions and so forth, the more rapidly the leftist worldview tends to evaporate.
“As I developed the independence to live as I wanted to, I also found that the only things I was really interested in were basically ‘far right / sexist / racist / etc’ by normal standards, and by the time covid came around, I just didn’t care what the rest of the world thought about it anymore.”
The bot also asked Lenti-Jones about his political activities, to which he replied that he had volunteered for local conservative candidates. “We recently got our candidate into office in my riding,” he said, “and helped keep our province mostly conservative, although the federal election went to the liberals,” adding that he believed the vote was rigged. He also shared that he is now more interested in supporting the Alberta independence movement (despite living in British Columbia).
However, Lenti-Jones admitted “I’m not that politically active outside of petitions and communicating with people in my social circle about it, because I think I can make the best contribution to my people and my political position by building a strong and influential business.”
As of 2023, Lenti-Jones sat on the governance committee of the prestigious Vancouver Club, according to its annual report. In pictures posted to his Instagram, Lenti-Jones appears attending a New Years Eve celebration and a Robbie Burns Day dinner. The Vancouver Club did not respond to a request for comment.
As a registered member of the College of Complementary Health Professionals of BC, Lenti-Jones offers a number of services out of his business, Sovereign Vitality Natural Medicine, including acupuncture, laser therapy, Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, guasha, and cupping. His six staff provide massage therapy.
Images uploaded by the business to Google show copies of The Epoch Times newspaper on a shelf in the office waiting room. The Epoch Times has repeatedly been identified by journalists and academics as a prominent publisher of far-right conspiracy theories.
Lenti-Jones is also connected to a separate corporation called Primal Radiance Human Energy Systems Ltd., which is also referenced in the URL for Sovereign Vitality’s webstore and online booking. He is the sole practitioner associated with Primal Radiance Human Energy Systems Ltd., which has billed the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for over half a million dollars since 2019.
Joshua Lenti-Jones did not respond to a request for comment. Shortly after CAHN emailed him, his personal Instagram account was set to private.
In a video released after the conference in which she deleted WhiteDate, Root made it clear that these sites could not be compared to other dating platforms which offer connection based on the compatibility of shared culture or ethnicity: “Rather than promoting compatibility, it encourages worldview. Rather than fostering connection, it normalizes hate speech and conspiracy narratives.”
The site, according to Root, “is extremist propaganda embedded within a dating app. What appears to be a niche alternative to Tinder is actually a global far-right ecosystem with thousands of users.”
For Root, “responsibly exposing or shutting down [online] networks that spread hate, conspiracy theories, and extremist coordination can be considered a form of civic responsibility” and “a practical application of democratic principles. It ensures public spaces are accountable, harmful ideologies cannot operate entirely in secret, and journalists, researchers, and society can observe what is actually happening.”
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