Lana Jennifer Lokteff (born March 14, 1979) is an American far-right, antisemitic

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and

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, who is part of the alt-right movement. She became a prominent

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personality before being banned. She is the host of '' Radio 3Fourteen''.

Early life

Lokteff was born in

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and is of

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descent. Her parents were immigrants.

Career

In 2011, she married Henrik Palmgren, the

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host of web media company

Red Ice Red Ice is a white supremacist multimedia company led by the married couple Lana Lokteff and Henrik Palmgren. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has described Red Ice as being important in the YouTube alt-right radicalization pipeline, furt ...

. According to the

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, Red Ice started in 2003 covering the

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and

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before shifting to

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and

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. Lokteff and Palmgren have been jointly cited as an influential introduction to white nationalism by members of the far-right. Red Ice shifted around 2012 in response to what the couple perceived as "anti-white sentiment" coinciding with the

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movement. Lokteff has

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and the

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. She has publicized the work of denialist historians such as David Cole and Mark Weber. Following the election of

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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. 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

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of sexual assault. '' New York'' magazine describes her as a "looks-obsessed

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", 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." In 2018, Lokteff was a guest on the podcast of a Florida schoolteacher who used the pseudonym Tiana Dalichov. She used the podcast to encourage white nationalists to become schoolteachers to influence children. In October 2019, Red Ice TV's

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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. A week later, the backup channel was also removed by YouTube. In November 2019,

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banned Red Ice from using its platform.

Personal life

Lokteff identifies as a pagan. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina. She says she has been trolled and threatened by men in the alt-right.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lokteff, Lana 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 Right-wing politics in the United States American eugenicists Alt-right modern pagans