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demmiblue

(39,720 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 04:11 PM Jan 2023

Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members

A Ohio couple has been unmasked as leaders of the neo-Nazi “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel that distributes lesson plans to 2,400 members.

Earlier this month, while the rest of the country was celebrating the achievements of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., parents and children in the “Dissident Homeschool” network opened a lesson plan and were greeted with the words: “As Adolf Hitler wrote…”

The contents of the MLK lesson plan would be shocking for almost anyone, but for members of the 2,400-member “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel, this was a regular Monday at school.

“It is up to us to ensure our children know him for the deceitful, dishonest, riot-inciting negro he actually was,” the administrator of the network’s Telegram channel wrote, alongside a downloadable lesson plan for elementary school children. ”He is the face of a movement which ethnically cleansed whites out of urban areas and precipitated the anti-white regime that we are now fighting to free ourselves from.”

Since the group began in October 2021 it has openly embraced Nazi ideology and promoted white supremacy, while proudly discouraging parents from letting their white children play with or have any contact with people of any other race. Admins and members use racist, homophobic, and antisemitic slurs without shame, and quote Hitler and other Nazi leaders daily in a channel open to the public.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ane/neo-nazi-homeschool-ohio
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Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2023 OP
So... 2naSalit Jan 2023 #1
Like Hitler schools run by the SS. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #3
Not surprised. 2naSalit Jan 2023 #4
Being Charter members of the White Nation/White supremacy DENVERPOPS Jan 2023 #10
DeVille? or DeVos? JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2023 #22
Play on names... 2naSalit Jan 2023 #24
Ah, got it. But Cruella, at least, had a bit of personality. JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2023 #25
That is true. 2naSalit Jan 2023 #26
She's also known as Cruella DeVos FelineOverlord Jan 2023 #27
Had I seen this... 2naSalit Jan 2023 #29
Seems they're not too different from today's Republican Party Cyrano Jan 2023 #2
Republicans believe in a I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2023 #11
They are today's Republican Party. paleotn Jan 2023 #18
Aside from how horrible the ideology is that they are promoting, John Ludi Jan 2023 #5
So frightening. Boomerproud Jan 2023 #6
If De Santis wins, he'll hire him to handle education Baitball Blogger Jan 2023 #7
Probably no exaggeration. Look who tfg picked for ed. housecat Jan 2023 #19
years ago attended a home school convention not surprised. dembotoz Jan 2023 #8
geeezz. It just keeps getting worse. damn, this is frightening. riversedge Jan 2023 #9
The Ohio Nazi couple: dalton99a Jan 2023 #12
I thought Nazis hated Masons? geardaddy Jan 2023 #16
The Masons probably don't know he's a Nazi, or he doesn't know he's supposed to hate them dalton99a Jan 2023 #23
True geardaddy Jan 2023 #37
There's no point in looking for logic among extremists. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2023 #28
Yeah, you're right geardaddy Jan 2023 #38
Why do people always look backward to psychopathic losers Mr. Evil Jan 2023 #13
Das Grooming Kid Berwyn Jan 2023 #14
yes! housecat Jan 2023 #21
strongly recommend everyone reads this. barbtries Jan 2023 #15
reading the included link is interesting. Nazi mom has only been US citizen for 5 years BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #34
Isn't there some way to revoke her citizenship and deport her Nazi ass back to the Netherlands? Tanuki Jan 2023 #36
Draped in a flag and carrying a cross. We are here. Full blown nazis. Evolve Dammit Jan 2023 #17
Will this be implemented by Deathsantis? kairos12 Jan 2023 #20
This is just one small, organized part of the growing Still Sensible Jan 2023 #30
So fucking scary to think that we have actual Nazis on US soil. Initech Jan 2023 #31
"GROOMERS"! DemocraticPatriot Jan 2023 #32
Katja Lawrence, launched the channel, because she "was having a rough time finding Nazi-approved s BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #33
Once again... lonely bird Jan 2023 #35

2naSalit

(102,793 posts)
1. So...
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 04:19 PM
Jan 2023

Betsy DeVille and Stephen Miller have teamed up and created a back channel network of indoctrination?

2naSalit

(102,793 posts)
4. Not surprised.
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 04:36 PM
Jan 2023

There are a lot of home schoolers in my region and many are some form of prepper.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
10. Being Charter members of the White Nation/White supremacy
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 05:51 PM
Jan 2023

crowd, of course they did................

Watched Mississippi Burning again a few nights ago.........all I could think is that we have been taken backwards 60 years......

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,681 posts)
25. Ah, got it. But Cruella, at least, had a bit of personality.
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 07:18 PM
Jan 2023

DeVos, like Miller, has the dead-eyed stare of heartlessness.

2naSalit

(102,793 posts)
29. Had I seen this...
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 07:46 PM
Jan 2023

I would have gone with that. Randy knows best. I love his productions, they're amazing.

I_UndergroundPanther

(13,369 posts)
11. Republicans believe in a
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 05:58 PM
Jan 2023

Natural order of things. They have always been racist pigs. For this fictional natural order of things is and has been a long term basic tenet of conservatism.

Conservatism is bullshit always has been there are no reasonable conservatives.

John Ludi

(599 posts)
5. Aside from how horrible the ideology is that they are promoting,
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 04:45 PM
Jan 2023

they also are raising kids that will be almost completely unemployable.

 

dembotoz

(16,922 posts)
8. years ago attended a home school convention not surprised.
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 05:25 PM
Jan 2023

not all but there are some wackos in that bunch

geardaddy

(25,392 posts)
16. I thought Nazis hated Masons?
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 06:40 PM
Jan 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonry#Nazi_Germany_and_occupied_Europe
Freemasons are consistently considered an ideological foe of Nazism in their world perception (Weltauffassung). The Nazis claimed that high-degree Masons were willing members of the Jewish conspiracy and that Freemasonry was one of the causes of Germany's defeat in World War I.[33] In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote that Freemasonry has succumbed to the Jews and has become an excellent instrument to fight for their aims and to use their strings to pull the upper strata of society into their designs. He continued, "The general pacifistic paralysis of the national instinct of self-preservation begun by Freemasonry" is then transmitted to the masses of society by the press.[34] In 1933 Hermann Göring, the Reichstag President and one of the key figures in the process of Gleichschaltung ("synchronization&quot , stated "in National Socialist Germany, there is no place for Freemasonry".[35]

dalton99a

(94,121 posts)
23. The Masons probably don't know he's a Nazi, or he doesn't know he's supposed to hate them
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 07:12 PM
Jan 2023

Mr. Evil

(3,457 posts)
13. Why do people always look backward to psychopathic losers
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 06:32 PM
Jan 2023

for enrichment and enlightenment? Hitler was responsible for ten of millions of deaths. He destroyed Germany amongst other countries and died an ultra-paranoid, delusional junkie. Yeah, that's something to really look up to. For Fuck's Sake! Just how stupid can people get in this country?

Tanuki

(16,448 posts)
36. Isn't there some way to revoke her citizenship and deport her Nazi ass back to the Netherlands?
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 10:34 PM
Jan 2023

Maybe she made a false or misleading statement somewhere in the naturalization process?

Still Sensible

(2,870 posts)
30. This is just one small, organized part of the growing
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 07:47 PM
Jan 2023

home school community, which is a fertile recruiting ground for this and other hate groups. This is not to suggest that all--or even most--homeschool parents preach nazi-type hate. I know a couple families, one from solid red S Carolina and one in my deep red state OK, and neither would be receptive to any RWNJ, severe racist message.

I believe, however. that a significant percentage of those parents that choose to homeschool do so based on either their strong, conservative religious beliefs, their fear of the school environment (both physically and philosophically), their existing anti-gov beliefs, and/or they are simply already racist, anti-LGTBQ. separatist and anti-anything liberal people. Obviously that last bunch are most recruit able, but many of the others are as well.

Unfortunately, the growth of the internet and social media has and will continue to provide these purveyors of hate, lies and chaos a great big megaphone and tremendous reach. Hell, I'm pretty sure that the subject hate group in this article will grow as this very story gets passed around the web and becomes a recruiting tool. In our younger days (I'm a 68yo boomer), these neo-nazis, separatists. hyper racists and vehement anti-gov types were the "LUNATIC Fringe" and didn't have the means to so widely message and recruit.

If we don't find the will and the ways to marginalize the hate and the organized growth of their movements, it can only get worse,

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,246 posts)
33. Katja Lawrence, launched the channel, because she "was having a rough time finding Nazi-approved s
Sun Jan 29, 2023, 10:13 PM
Jan 2023

Katja Lawrence, who is in her mid-30s, launched the channel in October 2021, because she “was having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material for [her] homeschool children,” as she told the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung! Amerikaner” last year.

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