Lana Lokteff
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{{short description|American white supremacist}}
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| name = Lana Lokteff
| image = Lana Lokteff on Virtue of the West.jpg
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| caption = Lokteff on Virtue of the West in 2017
| birth_name = Lana Jennifer Lokteff
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|3|14}}
| birth_place = Oregon, U.S.{{cite magazine|last1=Darby|first1=Seyward|title=The Rise of the Valkyries|url=https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-valkyries/8/|access-date=May 7, 2018|magazine=Harper's Magazine|date=September 2017|archive-date=December 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191220155805/https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-valkyries/8/|url-status=live}}
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| occupation = Far-right activist, vlogger, former YouTuber
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| spouse = Henrik Palmgren{{cite news|last1=Bowman|first1=Emma|last2=Stewart|first2=Ian|title=The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right'|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544134546/the-women-behind-the-alt-right|access-date=May 7, 2018|publisher=NPR|date=August 8, 2017|language=en|archive-date=October 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017181346/https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544134546/the-women-behind-the-alt-right|url-status=live}}
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| website = {{url|https://redice.tv/radio-3fourteen}}
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Lana Jennifer Lokteff (born March 14, 1979{{Cite book |last=Darby |first=Seyward |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U5S5DwAAQBAJ |title=Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism |date=2020-07-21 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=978-0-316-48779-5 |language=en |access-date=January 19, 2024 |archive-date=January 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122103826/https://books.google.com/books?id=U5S5DwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}) is an American far-right, antisemitic conspiracy theorist and white supremacist,Citations for "white supremacist":
- {{cite web |title=The Women Behind The 'Alt-Right' |website=NPR.org |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544134546/the-women-behind-the-alt-right |access-date=Dec 28, 2020 |publisher=NPR |quote="Lana Lokteff, pictured, runs an alt-right media company to promote her white nationalist ideologies" |archive-date=October 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017181346/https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544134546/the-women-behind-the-alt-right |url-status=live }}
- {{cite web |title=From Alt Right to Alt Lite: Naming the Hate |url=https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |access-date=July 12, 2018 |publisher=Anti-Defamation League |quote="Lana Lokteff is a white supremacist" |archive-date=March 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318154958/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |url-status=live }}
- {{cite news |date=2017-11-05 |access-date=2022-06-23 |first1=Shachar |last1=Peled |title=Ladies' Night at the Alt-right: Meet the Women Trying to Soften the White Nationalist Movement |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-11-05/ty-article/.premium/meet-the-women-trying-to-soften-the-white-nationalist-movement/0000017f-dc61-db22-a17f-fcf121f40000 |newspaper=Haaretz |quote=Lana Lokteff is considered one of the most prominent women in the alt-right movement. |archive-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623013044/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-11-05/ty-article/.premium/meet-the-women-trying-to-soften-the-white-nationalist-movement/0000017f-dc61-db22-a17f-fcf121f40000 |url-status=live }}
- {{cite web |last1=Mathias |first1=Christopher |last2=Amatulli |first2=Jenna |last3=Klein |first3=Rebecca |date=March 3, 2018 |title=Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-public-school-teacher-white-nationalist-podcast_us_5a99ae32e4b089ec353a1fba |access-date=July 13, 2018 |work=HuffPost |quote="the prominent white supremacist media figure Lana Lokteff" |archive-date=March 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311072608/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/florida-public-school-teacher-white-nationalist-podcast_us_5a99ae32e4b089ec353a1fba |url-status=live }}
- {{cite web |last=Seelinger |first=Lani |date=March 5, 2018 |title=Teacher Dayanna Volitich Was Outed As A White Nationalist & This Is How She Brushed It Off |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/teacher-dayanna-volitich-was-outed-as-a-white-nationalist-this-is-how-she-brushed-it-off-8403039 |access-date=July 17, 2018 |work=Bustle |quote="Lana Lokteff, a prominent white supremacist figure" |archive-date=July 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718001319/https://www.bustle.com/p/teacher-dayanna-volitich-was-outed-as-a-white-nationalist-this-is-how-she-brushed-it-off-8403039 |url-status=live }}
- {{cite web |last=Amend |first=Alex |date=March 8, 2018 |title=Christina Hoff Sommers can't take a single line of criticism |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/08/christina-hoff-sommers-cant-take-single-line-criticism |access-date=July 17, 2018 |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |quote="Lana Lokteff, whose white supremacist and antisemitic views were not secret" |archive-date=March 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180308200254/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/08/christina-hoff-sommers-cant-take-single-line-criticism |url-status=live }}
- {{Cite web |date=2019-12-29 |title=Lana Lokteff: Poster girl of white supremacy |url=https://arab.news/by9ns |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=Arab News |language=en |quote=For proof, one need look no further than the anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic rhetoric of American white supremacist Lana Lokteff. }} who is part of the alt-right movement. She became a prominent YouTube personality before being banned. She is the host of Radio 3Fourteen.{{cite news|last1=Hemmer|first1=Nichole|title=The women fighting for white male supremacy|url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/18/16323686/women-alt-right-power-subservience-paradox-klan|access-date=May 7, 2018|publisher=Vox|date=September 18, 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140703/https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/18/16323686/women-alt-right-power-subservience-paradox-klan|url-status=live}}Staff (ndg) [https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate "From Alt-right to Alt-lite: Naming the Hate"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318154958/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/from-alt-right-to-alt-lite-naming-the-hate |date=March 18, 2018 }} Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved: May 7, 2018{{Citation |last=Anderson |first=Wendy K. Z. |title=Reckoning with White Fragility by Alt-Right Shield Maidens |date=2021-04-22 |url=https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832771.003.0006 |work=Rebirthing a Nation |pages=97–120 |access-date=2024-01-11 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |doi=10.14325/mississippi/9781496832771.003.0006 |isbn=978-1-4968-3277-1 |s2cid=246152038 |archive-date=January 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122103726/https://academic.oup.com/mississippi-scholarship-online/book/42662/chapter-abstract/360609007?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live }}
Early life
Lokteff was born in Oregon and is of Russian descent. Her parents were immigrants who fled the Bolsheviks. She has an older brother.
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.
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".
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.
= 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.{{cite news|author=Staff|title=McInnes, Molyneux, and 4chan: Investigating pathways to the alt-right|url=https://www.splcenter.org/20180419/mcinnes-molyneux-and-4chan-investigating-pathways-alt-right|access-date=May 7, 2018|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|date=April 19, 2018|language=en|archive-date=May 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507202311/https://www.splcenter.org/20180419/mcinnes-molyneux-and-4chan-investigating-pathways-alt-right|url-status=live}} Red Ice shifted around 2012 in response to what the couple perceived as "anti-white sentiment" coinciding with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Lokteff has denied the Holocaust and the Native American genocide in the United States.{{cite news |date=2017-11-05 |access-date=2022-06-23 |first1=Shachar |last1=Peled |title=Ladies' Night at the Alt-right: Meet the Women Trying to Soften the White Nationalist Movement |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-11-05/ty-article/.premium/meet-the-women-trying-to-soften-the-white-nationalist-movement/0000017f-dc61-db22-a17f-fcf121f40000 |newspaper=Haaretz |quote=Lokteff, who questions the Holocaust and mass killings of Native Americans |archive-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623013044/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-11-05/ty-article/.premium/meet-the-women-trying-to-soften-the-white-nationalist-movement/0000017f-dc61-db22-a17f-fcf121f40000 |url-status=live }}
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, advocating for them to play a supporting role to men.{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Sam|title=Lipstick Fascism|url=https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/alt-right-lana-lokteff-racism-misogyny-women-feminism/|access-date=May 7, 2018|work=Jacobin|date=April 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143650/https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/alt-right-lana-lokteff-racism-misogyny-women-feminism/|url-status=live}} Lokteff opposes feminism, claiming that it has made life more difficult for men and that feminism's goals of equality have already been achieved. She has also criticized some of the women who have accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. 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."{{Cite news|title=Beyond Alt|last1=Read|first1=Max|date=May 1–14, 2017|work=New York magazine|last2=van Zuylen-Wood|first2=Simon}}
In 2018, Lokteff was a guest on the podcast of a Florida schoolteacher who used the pseudonym Tiana Dalichov.{{cite news|last1=Palmer|first1=Ewan|title=Florida school teacher accused of hosting white nationalist podcast under false name|url=http://www.newsweek.com/florida-teacher-accused-hosting-far-right-podcast-encouraging-white-829912|access-date=May 7, 2018|work=Newsweek|date=March 5, 2018|language=en|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507153834/http://www.newsweek.com/florida-teacher-accused-hosting-far-right-podcast-encouraging-white-829912|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Wootson Jr|first1=Cleve R.|title=A middle school teacher led a double life as a white nationalist podcaster|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/03/05/a-middle-school-teacher-led-a-double-life-as-a-white-nationalist-podcaster/|access-date=May 7, 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 5, 2018|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507154913/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2018/03/05/a-middle-school-teacher-led-a-double-life-as-a-white-nationalist-podcaster/|url-status=live}} She used the podcast to encourage white nationalists to become schoolteachers to influence children.{{cite news|title=Florida Teacher Who Hosted Far-Right Podcast Encouraging White Nationalists To Infiltrate Schools Resigns|last=Palmer|first=Ewan|date=April 3, 2018|url=http://www.newsweek.com/florida-teacher-who-hosted-far-right-podcast-encouraging-white-nationalists-869126|work=Newsweek|access-date=May 6, 2018|archive-date=May 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507115546/http://www.newsweek.com/florida-teacher-who-hosted-far-right-podcast-encouraging-white-nationalists-869126|url-status=live}}
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.{{cite news |last1=Ramirez |first1=Nikki McCann |title=White nationalist Red Ice TV is promoting a backup channel to skirt its YouTube ban |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/how-white-nationalist-red-ice-tv-working-around-its-youtube-ban |access-date=October 20, 2019 |work=Media Matters for America |date=October 18, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020215745/https://www.mediamatters.org/white-nationalism/how-white-nationalist-red-ice-tv-working-around-its-youtube-ban |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Gais |first1=Hannah |title=YouTube Takes Down Red Ice's Main Channel |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/21/youtube-takes-down-red-ices-main-channel |access-date=October 22, 2019 |work=HateWatch |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=October 21, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022081513/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/21/youtube-takes-down-red-ices-main-channel |url-status=live }} A week later, the backup channel was also removed by YouTube.{{cite news |last1=Gias |first1=Hannah |title=YouTube Yanks Second Red Ice Channel |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/23/youtube-yanks-second-red-ice-channel |access-date=October 27, 2019 |work=HateWatch |publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center |date=October 23, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025010112/https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/23/youtube-yanks-second-red-ice-channel |url-status=live }}{{cite news |last1=Katzowitz |first1=Josh |title=Red Ice, a popular white supremacist YouTube channel, has been shut down |url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/red-ice-youtube-ban/ |access-date=November 25, 2019 |work=The Daily Dot |date=October 24, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=October 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028205415/https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/red-ice-youtube-ban/ |url-status=live }} In November 2019, Facebook banned Red Ice from using its platform.{{cite news |last1=Wong |first1=Julia Carrie |author-link=Julia Carrie Wong |title=Facebook to ban two white nationalist groups after Guardian report |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/26/facebook-white-nationalist-ban-red-ice-tv-affirmative-right |access-date=June 12, 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=November 27, 2019 |language=en |archive-date=June 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612073204/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/26/facebook-white-nationalist-ban-red-ice-tv-affirmative-right |url-status=live }}
Personal life
In 2011, Lokteff married Palmgren. She has three children{{Cite web |title=Lana (@LanaLokteff) on X |url=https://x.com/LanaLokteff |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241008111357/https://x.com/LanaLokteff |archive-date=2024-10-08 |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}} and lived in Charleston, South Carolina as of 2020. Lokteff identifies as a pagan. She says she has been trolled and threatened by men in the alt-right.
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