Lana Jennifer Lokteff (born March 14, 1979[3]) is an American far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist,[4] who is part of the alt-right movement. She became a prominent YouTube personality before being banned. She is the host of Radio 3Fourteen.[5][6][7]
Lana Lokteff | |
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 Lokteff on Virtue of the West in 2017 | |
| Born | Lana Jennifer Lokteff March 14, 1979 |
| Occupation(s) | Far-right activist, Vlogger, Former YouTube personality |
| Spouse | Henrik Palmgren[2] |
| Website | redice |
Early life
Lokteff was born in Oregon and is of Russian descent.[2][3] Her parents were immigrants who fled the Bolsheviks. She has an older brother.[3]
During high school, Lokteff started listening to Coast to Coast AM, a talk show featuring guests who promoted conspiracy theories. She planned to study physics and philosophy at Portland State University, but later dropped out.[3]
Career
Early career
Lokteff moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment. She initially worked as a model before transitioning into the music and film industries. According to Lokteff, she left because she was "too creative" to work in industries where entertainment projects were rejected by executives for being "too deep" or threatening to "wake people up".[3]
Lokteff returned to Bend, Oregon to her family. In the early 2000s, the Lokteff family created Piggyback Records, a home-run label and recording studio. Lokteff and her brother started performing as a duo named Thirty Day Notice, with Lokteff doing all of the singing. After a few years, Piggyback's business faltered, and Lokteff went with her brother to Fiji. During her time overseas, Lokteff discovered Red Ice, a website run by Henrik Palmgren.[3]
Red Ice and promotion of white supremacy
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.[8] 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.[9][10] She has publicized the work of denialist historians such as David Cole and Mark Weber.[10]
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.[5][11] 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.[9] 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."[12]
In 2018, Lokteff was a guest on the podcast of a Florida schoolteacher who used the pseudonym Tiana Dalichov.[13][14] She used the podcast to encourage white nationalists to become schoolteachers to influence children.[15]
In October 2019, Red Ice's YouTube channel was banned 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.[16][17] A week later, the backup channel was also removed by YouTube.[18][19] In November 2019, Facebook banned Red Ice from using its platform.[20]
Personal life
In 2011, Lokteff married Palmgren.[1] Lokteff identifies as a pagan.[1] She lives in Charleston, South Carolina.[3] She says she has been trolled and threatened by men in the alt-right.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Darby, Seyward (September 2017). "The Rise of the Valkyries". Harper's Magazine. Archived from the original on December 20, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ a b c d Bowman, Emma; Stewart, Ian (August 8, 2017). "The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'". NPR. Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g Darby, Seyward (July 21, 2020). Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-48779-5. Archived from the original on January 22, 2024. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
- ^ Citations for "white supremacist":
- "The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'". NPR.org. NPR. Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. 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. Archived from the original on March 18, 2018. 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. Archived from the original on June 23, 2022. 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. Archived from the original on March 11, 2019. 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. Archived from the original on July 18, 2018. 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. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. 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. Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
- ^ a b Hemmer, Nichole (September 18, 2017). "The women fighting for white male supremacy". Vox. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Staff (ndg) "From Alt-right to Alt-lite: Naming the Hate" Archived March 18, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved: May 7, 2018
- ^ Anderson, Wendy K. Z. (April 22, 2021), "Reckoning with White Fragility by Alt-Right Shield Maidens", Rebirthing a Nation, University Press of Mississippi, pp. 97–120, doi:10.14325/mississippi/9781496832771.003.0006, ISBN 978-1-4968-3277-1, S2CID 246152038, archived from the original on January 22, 2024, retrieved January 11, 2024
- ^ Staff (April 19, 2018). "McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on May 7, 2020. 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. Archived from the original on June 23, 2022. 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. Archived from the original on May 7, 2018. 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. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. 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. Archived from the original on May 7, 2018. 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. Archived from the original on May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
- ^ Palmer, Ewan (April 3, 2018). "Florida Teacher Who Hosted Far-Right Podcast Encouraging White Nationalists To Infiltrate Schools Resigns". Newsweek. Archived from the original on May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on October 20, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ Gais, Hannah (October 21, 2019). "YouTube Takes Down Red Ice's Main Channel". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
- ^ Gias, Hannah (October 23, 2019). "YouTube Yanks Second Red Ice Channel". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
- ^ Katzowitz, Josh (October 24, 2019). "Red Ice, a popular white supremacist YouTube channel, has been shut down". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on October 28, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
- ^ Wong, Julia Carrie (November 27, 2019). "Facebook to ban two white nationalist groups after Guardian report". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 12, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
External links
- Lana Lokteff at IMDb