Thread by @antihateca

1/ EXPOSED: We spent months inside a fledgling white supremacist mvmt that’s recruiting kids to infiltrate politics & build an ethnostate. Canada First is trying to copy the USA Groyper / America First mvmt. Now it’s time to name them for what they are.
antihate.ca/canada_first_e…

2/ Despite Tyler L. Russell’s amateur & often lazy (he plays a lot of NHL '21) attempts to build a white supremacist mvmt, his aim (one shared by the chatroom) is a Canada where “there aren’t any fa**ots, low crime, no minorities.” That would require deportations & genocide.

3/ Members of the chat fantasize about executing their critics, calling them “future wall facers.” Russell says they’ll do “WHATEVER it takes to win.” Children as young at 14 are in the server.

4/ Some of them started scrambling when we sent media requests. Others didn’t. Tyler isn’t going away. He says the movement is going to start operating openly.

5/ So what have we accomplished here? First, one of their main goals was orchestrating political infiltration. That will be much harder now that their aims and views are public.

6/ Second, despite all the big talk, people will be concerned about being around him and the movement because it’s unsecure, it’s been exposed, and there are serious social consequences.

7/ Finally, a whole community can keep an eye on them and their actions and deplatform them from mainstream services so that his goal of reaching young people with propaganda is more difficult.

8/ Kudos to the Ryerson community for spotting Tyler L. Russell early on and starting a petition to have him removed from the school. It made us sit up and pay attention.

These infiltrations take time, and effort, and the hate content we have to consume is stomach-churning. We hope you’ll agree they’re worth supporting at antihate.ca/donate.

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