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It was women that got Trump elected, Lana Lokteff, one of the most prominent women in the American alt-right, told an audience earlier this year at an ideas conference in Stockholm. White women, she means, but when Lokteff whose pale skin, long blonde hair, and light blue eyes help make her a living embodiment of the Aryan ideal speaks about politics, the white is generally assumed. And, I guess, Lokteff continued, to be really edgy, it was women that got Hitler elected.
Hitler wasnt really elected (he lost his race for the presidency and was appointed to the role of chancellor), but facts are fungible for Lokteff. And besides, it was the frisson of name-checking Hitler that counted for the audience.
In the corner of the world Lokteff inhabits, Hitler references are far less controversial than praise for female political power; women tend to be either overlooked or actively dismissed. But then, Lokteff is an unconventional figure: She hosts a white nationalist radio program, Radio 3Fourteen, part of the Red Ice media conglomerate that she runs with her husband Henrik Palmgren, a Swedish national. (Palmgren is media director for Richard Spencers fledgling AltRight Corporation, described as a more ideological read: more overtly white nationalist Breitbart.)
Despite her fervent commitment to advancing the interests of the white race, however, Lokteff faces a problem. Like many far-right movements throughout American history, the alt-right movement is as rooted as much in ideas of male superiority as it is white supremacy. The white nationalist side gets more attention, but mens rights activism has been equally important to the movement. Women who are eager to be race warriors are seen by the white men who dominate the alt-right as, at best, subordinate partners, and, at worst, as part of the problem yet another threat to white male power.
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/9/18/16323686/women-alt-right-power-subservience-paradox-klan
An estimated 20 percent of alt-right supporters are women.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/08/the-women-behind-the-alt-right/537168/
Lana Lokteff is a danger. She has a popular YouTube channel that seems legitimate and believable. Any impressionable, suggestive young mind could stumble upon it and start to believe her bullshit. Her views, deeply offensive to any rational person, are packaged for mass consumption and presented so that they could sound reasonable to anyone who doesn't know better. I consider her a threat to American democracy. She needs to have a bright light shined on her hateful, racist views.
https://www.youtube.com/user/RedIceRadio
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)She's working her blonde keester off to be sure that - in the end - women are put "in their place" as a consequence of her precious butthurt Whitey Tighty complaining that "life is unfair" to the privileged people. I'm unable to muster as much as a scintilla of sympathy for these born-with-a-silver-spoon-up-thier-butts whiney whitey loser complainers.