Thread by @Katja_Thieme

"They meet in person, spread propaganda, encourage each other to expand the movement. They purchase weapons & discuss training. They have also attempted to join, influence & volunteer for Cdn political parties, adopting a restrained, more palatable guise." theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

"The overarching goal for many in the Cdn Super Players chat group was the eventual creation of a white ethnostate. In the meantime, one aim was to begin gaining a foothold in a range of institutions and professions, including law, education and the military." #whitesupremacy

"Dank said that at one point he was a student teacher at a school with children in Grades 6, 7, 8, whose ethnic makeup was almost entirely white. 'It’s the ethnostate basically.' Dank told the group that he was using his position as a student teacher to influence young minds."

"Dank said he made sure to use a discussion of Indigenous identity to explain to the children that they were white and European. One girl asked if that was racist. 'She didn’t react negatively when I told her you are European and white and there’s nothing to be ashamed of.'"

"Dank was adamant that the far-right required a presence in the teaching profession: 'we absolutely need to have our guys in the institutions.' He said he had a good chance of remaining undercover, but he was worried about getting too close to colleagues, lest they betray him."

"'l’ll play their game and recite what they want to hear,' he said, adding that he was 'acing the diversity class because I know all their narratives.' He implored his peers: 'We can’t just give over education to the people who hate us.'"

"Rusty was planning to leave the army and start a new life, raising his children in an 'ethnically pure' area near his family home in BC. He described his time in the Forces with fondness, but also with evident disgust at what the army, in his eyes, had become."

"'We spend more time taking classes about how to not offend special snowflakes than we spend time training, shooting, in the field or on deployment.' He encouraged group members to join the reserves in order to benefit from training in firearms and strategy."

"Rusty described his own foreign deployment in a way that suggests he was part of the disaster response in Nepal following the earthquakes there in 2015. He described the locals as 'shitskins' and said he used the clothes of the dead as toilet paper."

"Rusty also described an incident in Canada in which a Jewish military colleague complained that Rusty and other soldiers were being anti-Semitic. Rusty said he responded by arranging several handguns in the shape of a swastika on the Jewish soldier’s desk."

"Rusty described how he & fellow soldiers punished a female colleague: 'We started putting tons of pure salt in her boots. Rotted the skin off her feet.' Whether those incidents occurred & whether his behaviour was ever discovered by military authorities, is difficult to verify."

"Like the others in the chat room, Rusty yearned for a Canadian white ethnostate. He and the others talked eagerly about RaHoWa, or the Racial Holy War, the day when whites would rise up and take back what was, in their view, rightfully theirs from non-whites and feminists."

"In early 2017, members of the Cdn Super Players set out to make their mark on politics. ...The first candidate they rallied behind was Kellie Leitch, who proposed screening immigrants for cultural values. When her campaign stalled, they moved en masse to support Maxime Bernier."

"Their first aim was to shift the Overton window, a term describing the changing limits of what is considered acceptable public debate. They reasoned that if they could pry open that window--push it to the right--their views might not so easily be dismissed as reprehensible."

"Members of the group targeted Conservative Party events to try to recruit young white men into their online group. Members especially encouraged each other to attend the Hamilton Conservative Christmas Formal in December, 2017, for 'recruitment purposes.'"

"A few days after the function, new users introduced themselves as having been invited to join the Canadian Super Players chat room while they were at the formal."

"Members of the group shared Faith Goldy's tweets and discussed her value to their movement, lauding her for speaking 'the 14 words.' In their eyes, Ms. Goldy knew her 'place' as a woman in society and could be held up as an example."

"The chat-group members extended a similar détente to University of Toronto psychology prof #JordanPeterson ... One member wrote: “He’s not 1488 but his ideas are valuable for the movement.” (The term 1488 refers to 'the 14 words' and to the HH of Heil Hitler)." #cdnpse #uoft

"Cdn Super Players members also spoke of using the professor’s events as venues for recruiting. Mr. Zafirov posted a link in the chat room to a #JordanPeterson event at the Manning Centre in Ottawa, saying, 'This might be worth attending for recruitment and networking purposes.'"

Thanks to @ShannonPossum and @514jon for this thorough piece of reporting.