Lana Lokteff
Lokteff on Virtue of the West in 2017
Born
Lana Jennifer Lokteff

(1979-03-14) March 14, 1979
Oregon, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationPortland State University (Bachelor of Arts, philosophy, physics)
Occupation(s)Far-right activist, Vlogger, Former YouTube personality
SpouseHenrik Palmgren[2]
Websiteredice.tv/radio-3fourteen

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]

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Darby, Seyward (September 2017). "The Rise of the Valkyries". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bowman, Emma; Stewart, Ian (August 8, 2017). "The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'". NPR. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.
  4. ↑ Citations for "white supremacist":
  5. 1 2 Hemmer, Nichole (September 18, 2017). "The women fighting for white male supremacy". Vox. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  6. ↑ Staff (ndg) "From Alt-right to Alt-lite: Naming the Hate" Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved: May 7, 2018
  7. ↑ 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, retrieved January 11, 2024
  8. ↑ Staff (April 19, 2018). "McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  9. 1 2 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
  10. 1 2 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?
  11. ↑ Miller, Sam (April 2017). "Lipstick Fascism". Jacobin. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  12. ↑ Read, Max; van Zuylen-Wood, Simon (May 1–14, 2017). "Beyond Alt". New York magazine.
  13. ↑ Palmer, Ewan (March 5, 2018). "Florida school teacher accused of hosting white nationalist podcast under false name". Newsweek. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Palmer, Ewan (April 3, 2018). "Florida Teacher Who Hosted Far-Right Podcast Encouraging White Nationalists To Infiltrate Schools Resigns". Newsweek.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ Gais, Hannah (October 21, 2019). "YouTube Takes Down Red Ice's Main Channel". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved October 22, 2019.
  18. ↑ Gias, Hannah (October 23, 2019). "YouTube Yanks Second Red Ice Channel". HateWatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
  19. ↑ Katzowitz, Josh (October 24, 2019). "Red Ice, a popular white supremacist YouTube channel, has been shut down". The Daily Dot. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  20. ↑ Wong, Julia Carrie (November 27, 2019). "Facebook to ban two white nationalist groups after Guardian report". The Guardian. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
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