A mother was gutted to find out her son attended the Charlottesville alt-right rally (Picture: Getty)

The distraught mother of an alt-right fanatic has written an open letter to her son after he attended the Charlottesville rally.

The letter chronicles how the mother, who did not want to be named, slowly lost her beloved boy to the alt-right movement despite growing up with friends of all ethnicity.

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The letter was published on American website The Cut and was shared across social media.

In heartbreaking detail, the mother explained she had not spoken to her son for three years but followed his posts on Facebook and Twitter to keep track of his movements.


She said: ‘Maybe some alt-righters were born into racist families and then they just follow along, but we weren’t like that. He grew up in a big, multicultural city.’

The alt-right demonstration in Charlottesville led to the death of protester Heather Heyer (Picture: AP)

As well as having friends from different cultures he even had a none-white girlfriend and was a good student.



However, she claimed the turning point came when he began listening to a podcast called FreeDomain Radio which was founded by alt-right figure Stefan Molyneux.

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She said: ‘My son started saying things like, If we could just get the Asians out of here it wouldn’t be so crowded. I realised he was getting into really dangerous stuff. He was beyond the point where we could have a rational discussion. Not long after, I told him I thought he should move out.’

Her son soon began posting on social media about white supremacy, Donald Trump, the Holocaust and the role of women should be in the home.

From his tweets the mother knew he was in Charlottesville and was ‘hanging around with neo-Nazis’ and she even hoped he gets caught caught committing a crime as that could be a route for reform.

She even made the heartbreaking admission that she hopes he does not have children if he remains in the alt-right movement.

The mother claims her son changed after listening to podcasts by alt-right leader Stefan Molyneux (Picture: Youtube)

After the Charlottesville rally, where one woman was killed when nazis clashed as Antifa activists, there was a race on social media to name and shame those who attended the controversial rally.

Several of those who were identified lost their jobs after employers came under pressure to fire them and a speaker at the rally Chris Cantwell was banned from Facebook and dating website OKCupid.

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