Thread by @blakecallens

Let's do this. The most notable references I caught in the deliberately Nazi, White Boy Summer video, removing any excuse that these people didn't know exactly what they were sharing. 🧵

A man watches people in BDSM gear at a pride parade and is made to look like he's thinking of footage of Wehrmacht soldiers.

A bust of Stonewall Jackson with who I believe is @totusjustice, the white-nationalist founder of @SacraPress. He and his company recently made waves for publishing the Nazi book Positive Christianity in the Third Reich.

George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, confronting Martin Luther King Jr.

A sculpture by Arno Breker, one of the Nazi's favorite artists, who took many commissions from them. He was a personal friend of Hitler.

Racist English politician, Enoch Powell. The best way to describe him to an American audience is that he's sort of their David Duke, an explicitly anti-black activist.

Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1834 Nuremberg rally. Himmler left and Hitler center.

White nationalist writer Sam Francis, originator of a favorite Christian Nationalist concept, "anarcho-tyranny." After Francis was fired from his post at the Washington Times he spent the rest of his life advocating against "forced mixing of the races."

Eric Conn deadlifting in WBS glasses. Conn shared this video along with the slogan of the white nationalist squadrist organization, Mannerbund, "By God we shall have our home again."

White nationalist publisher Jared Taylor, known for quotes like, "Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears."

Oswald Mosley, head of the British Union of Fascists, who were pro-Hitler.

Rhodesian fighters, who have become white-nationalist icons.
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Brian Sauve leading a hymn singing in his church. He promoted the video and later claimed he was unaware of the references in a bizarre (and unserious) tweet, where he denounced both Hitler and diet soda.

This appears to be very active White Boy Summer enthusiast @TanneriteCortez (Tanner Cartwright). Later, Confederacy apologist Jon Harris and a big fan of both Sam Francis and Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, Auron MacIntyre, make an appearance.

.@spanglermt (Michael Spangler) a pastor who was divested from the OPC for antisemitic writings, who recently wrote a series of explicitly white-nationalist essays that included a call to resegregate schools.

Presbyterian minister and pro-slavery advocate Robert Lewis Dabney, and Robert E. Lee.

Stephen Wolfe's West Point graduation picture and speech at the New Christendom conference. To understand why his views are white-nationalist, read my section-by-section refutation of his book: christiannationalismnotes.com/p/the-case-aga…

CJay Engel and Andrew Torba. Engel markets audiobooks for white-nationalist publisher Antelope Hill. Isker is white-nationalist Andrew Torba's co-author and has promoted multiple racist and antisemitic conspiracy theories. Torba makes a later appearance.

Shane Anderson, Michael Spangler's compatriot in the OPC and member of the CREC church in Pella with multiple white-nationalist members, followed by the pastor, Michael Shover. Anderson is still promoting the video even though the Nazi references are public.

Joel Webbon's podcast. Webbon has previously stated that chattel slavery was biblical and that, given the choice between a white and black doctor, he would choose the white one. Wesley Todd, on the left, believes that "certain races have superior traits to others."

Leni Riefenstahl's 1936 Nazi propaganda film, Olympia. Note the sieg heil being given to the torch bearer.

I ran out of space and had to cut some references, but clearly you can see that the excuse that these men had no idea what they were promoting is patently ridiculous. Conn even shared it and added the slogan of a white nationalist organization.

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I noticed a couple typos:

Triumph of the Will was 1934, not 1834. Fat finger.

I accidentally called Andrew Isker Andrew Torba, though both appear in that one post.

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