Lana Lokteff
Lana Lokteff | |
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 Lokteff on Virtue of the West in 2017 | |
| Born | Lana Jennifer Lokteff March 14, 1979 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Portland State University (Bachelor of Arts, philosophy, physics) |
| Occupation(s) | Far-right activist, Vlogger, Former YouTube personality |
| Spouse | Henrik Palmgren[2] |
| Website | redice |
Lana Jennifer Lokteff (born March 14, 1979) is an American far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist,[3] who is part of the alt-right movement. She became a prominent YouTube personality before being banned. She is the host of Radio 3Fourteen.[4][5]
Early life[edit]
Lokteff was born in Oregon and is of Russian descent.[2] Her parents were immigrants.[6]
Career[edit]
In 2011, she married Henrik Palmgren, the Swedish host of web media company Red Ice.[1] According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Red Ice started in 2003 covering the paranormal and conspiracy theories before shifting to white nationalism and antisemitism. Lokteff and Palmgren have been jointly cited as an influential introduction to white nationalism by members of the far-right.[7] Red Ice shifted around 2012 in response to what the couple perceived as "anti-white sentiment" coinciding with the Black Lives Matter movement.[2]
Lokteff has denied the Holocaust and the Native American genocide.[8][9] She has publicized the work of denialist historians such as David Cole and Mark Weber.[9]
Following the election of Donald Trump in 2016, Lokteff has attempted to increase the number of white women involved in the predominantly male-dominated alt-right movement,[1] advocating for them to play a supporting role to men.[4][10] Lokteff opposes feminism, claiming that it has made life more difficult for men and that feminism's goals of equality have already been achieved.[1] She has also criticized some of the women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.[8] New York magazine describes her as a "looks-obsessed eugenicist", quoting her as saying "The alt-right is a very attractive, very sexy bunch ... Matches are being made left and right of beautiful, intelligent couples. It's a eugenic process."[11]
In 2018, Lokteff was a guest on the podcast of a Florida schoolteacher who used the pseudonym Tiana Dalichov.[12][13] She used the podcast to encourage white nationalists to become schoolteachers to influence children.[14]
In October 2019, Red Ice TV's YouTube channel was banned by YouTube for hate speech violations. The channel had about 330,000 subscribers. Lokteff and Red Ice promoted a backup channel in an attempt to circumvent the ban.[15][16] A week later, the backup channel was also removed by YouTube.[17][18] In November 2019, Facebook banned Red Ice from using its platform.[19]
Personal life[edit]
Lokteff identifies as a pagan.[1] She lives in Charleston, South Carolina.[20] She says she has been trolled and threatened by men in the alt-right.[1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Darby, Seyward (September 2017). "The Rise of the Valkyries". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ a b c d Bowman, Emma; Stewart, Ian (August 8, 2017). "The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'". NPR. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Citations for "white supremacist":
- "The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
Lana Lokteff, pictured, runs an alt-right media company to promote her white nationalist ideologies
- "From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
Lana Lokteff is a white supremacist
- Peled, Shachar (November 5, 2017). "Ladies' Night at the Alt-right: Meet the Women Trying to Soften the White Nationalist Movement". Haaretz. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
Lana Lokteff is considered one of the most prominent women in the alt-right movement.
- Mathias, Christopher; Amatulli, Jenna; Klein, Rebecca (March 3, 2018). "Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast". HuffPost. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
the prominent white supremacist media figure Lana Lokteff
- Seelinger, Lani (March 5, 2018). "Teacher Dayanna Volitich Was Outed As A White Nationalist & This Is How She Brushed It Off". Bustle. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
Lana Lokteff, a prominent white supremacist figure
- Amend, Alex (March 8, 2018). "Christina Hoff Sommers can't take a single line of criticism". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
Lana Lokteff, whose white supremacist and antisemitic views were not secret
- "Lana Lokteff: Poster girl of white supremacy". Arab News. December 29, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2022.
For proof, one need look no further than the anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic rhetoric of American white supremacist Lana Lokteff.
- "The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Hemmer, Nichole (September 18, 2017). "The women fighting for white male supremacy". Vox. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Staff (ndg) "From Alt-right to Alt-lite: Naming the Hate" Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved: May 7, 2018
- ^ Adams, Michael Henry (December 27, 2020). "Sisters in Hate review: tough but vital read on the rise of racist America". The Guardian. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
- ^ Staff (April 19, 2018). "McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ a b Peled, Shachar (November 5, 2017). "Ladies' Night at the Alt-right: Meet the Women Trying to Soften the White Nationalist Movement". Haaretz. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
Lokteff, who questions the Holocaust and mass killings of Native Americans
- ^ a b Posner, Sarah (November 28, 2016). "'Radically Mainstream': Why the Alt-Right Is Celebrating Trump's Win". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
For me," says Lokteff … "It's like, this many Jews didn't die, alright?
- ^ Miller, Sam (April 2017). "Lipstick Fascism". Jacobin. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Read, Max; van Zuylen-Wood, Simon (May 1–14, 2017). "Beyond Alt". New York magazine.
- ^ Palmer, Ewan (March 5, 2018). "Florida school teacher accused of hosting white nationalist podcast under false name". Newsweek. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Wootson Jr, Cleve R. (March 5, 2018). "A middle school teacher led a double life as a white nationalist podcaster". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Palmer, Ewan (April 3, 2018). "Florida Teacher Who Hosted Far-Right Podcast Encouraging White Nationalists To Infiltrate Schools Resigns". Newsweek.
- ^ Ramirez, Nikki McCann (October 18, 2019). "White nationalist Red Ice TV is promoting a backup channel to skirt its YouTube ban". Media Matters for America. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ Gais, Hannah (October 21, 2019). "YouTube Takes Down Red Ice's Main Channel". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- ^ Gias, Hannah (October 23, 2019). "YouTube Yanks Second Red Ice Channel". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
- ^ Katzowitz, Josh (October 24, 2019). "Red Ice, a popular white supremacist YouTube channel, has been shut down". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ^ Wong, Julia Carrie (November 27, 2019). "Facebook to ban two white nationalist groups after Guardian report". The Guardian. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
- ^ Neiman, Susan (August 19, 2020). "'Sisters in Hate' Offers a Window Into Women in the White Nationalist Movement". The New York Times. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
External links[edit]
- Lana Lokteff at IMDb
- Alt-right writers
- Critics of Black Lives Matter
- Living people
- Female critics of feminism
- American YouTubers
- 1979 births
- Portland State University alumni
- Writers from Portland, Oregon
- American conspiracy theorists
- American white supremacists
- American Holocaust deniers
- American people of Russian descent
- People from Oregon
- American modern pagans
- American women podcasters
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- Right-wing politics in the United States
- American eugenicists
- Alt-right modern pagans