Yes, you read that question correctly. I think it may be time to have that discussion. Most people I speak with on the topic have noticed the rhetoric coming from their most prominent personalities has become far more explicitly white nationalist within the last year or so. I detailed it a few months ago, along with their advocacy for viewers to join Neo-Nazi Active Clubs. For a lot of people that is likely a red line for describing Diagolon as a Neo-Nazi movement, but let's take a look at some of their rhetoric in the last quarter of the year.
We'll start with Dan Sleno's Halloween live stream. Here he receives a donation for $14. Pete Sorrenti then jokes that they should have sent an $88 donation. This is an obvious reference to both the 14 words and 88 or Hail Hitler.
Also content warning for all the video clips. Racism, homophobia, ableism
Dan also receives a comment about a film titled "The Eternal Jew", which is a
Nazi propaganda film released in 1940. Sleno calls it "a good choice of movie".
And before anyone asks, yes those appear to be
SS lightning bolts on Dan and
Leigh Stuart's faces.
Likely just a joke. Just like this one about domestic abuse because they're just
the funniest comedians ever.
Or this joke about Active Clubs.
I found these clips from the Halloween stream interesting. They aren't happy about Josh Alexander's tweets disapproving of Halloween. Maybe the Diagolon/Save Canada honeymoon is coming to an end.
Here is Dan Sleno on
Alex Vriend's stream performing a Roman salute. Just for jokes because they're
amazing comedians. Kinda hard to laugh when he's streaming with someone advocating that his viewers join Neo-Nazi fight clubs.
Side note: This isn't the first time Sleno has done this during a stream. Last time he pulled the video and re-uploaded an edited version. I couldn't say this before, but since I now have proof that he has done it, I can.
Speaking of Vriend lets take a look at some of the things being said on his live streams.
He seems very comfortable using racist slurs.
I'll double down on the content warning now.
But he wishes he could use... a different racial slur.
In this clip Alex compares Palestinians to dead skunks. A while back
I cautioned people about the far-right "supporting" the Palestinians. This is why.
For anyone that requires a video clip to help explain why schools should not be forced to out LGTBQ+ children to their parents, look no further than this.
Derek Harrison discusses hitting children for being gay/trans and says they should be bullied.
Alex encourages people to share speeches by Adolf Hitler and asks "Where's the lie?".
Alex and Derek engage in a bit of Holocaust denial. Shocking I know. They share a tweet that shows a letter written by a Red Cross observer in 1944 that claims he did not see any
extermination facilities at Auschwitz. What they neglect to mention was that the observer was not granted access to those areas of the facility and he only met the commandant in the
office outside of the fences.
Alex states that Jews "can't stop lying".
Here Ferryman
quotes Mein Kampf to justify his hatred of Jews.
One of their viewers says that we should "drive (((them))) out of all our lands", clearly suggesting that we deport
Jews.
Ferryman gushes over how wonderful he thinks the
sonnenrad is.
This next clip is very telling.
Leigh Stuart asks Alex how they plan to make "them" go back, referring to immigrants. Ferryman dances around the question but I'll answer it... violently. There is no peaceful way to make people leave a country.
White nationalism is an inherently violent ideology.
We've focused on Alex quite a bit and I'll get back to him shortly but let's see some of the rhetoric coming from other prominent Diagolon live streamers.
Here
Greg Wycliffe claims that the LGTBQ+ community is "anti-white" because they can't create more white people. Plenty of gay and trans people have children, so clearly he's wrong.
Dan Sleno shares a clip from
white supremacist Jared Taylor.
Saxon Murray,
Morgan Guptil, and
Marcella Hall being blatantly antisemitic.
I think this clip is one of my favorites ever. A while back I wrote a
thread about Pete Sorrenti. He has been complaining about it ever since but in it I mentioned
his opposition to PSAC. I only brought it up because the strike was a
big news story at the time, but you'll never guess how he justifies his anti-union views.
"if you read Mein Kampf it's what drove Hitler mad in the first place"
Thanks Pete, you make my work so much easier.
Back to Ferryman. Not long ago he appeared on a
"Nordic Frontier" podcast, which is an English-language show to promote the violent Neo-Nazi group the
Nordic Resistance Movement.
The Diagolon guys are looking to create their own brand of
Active Clubs in the future, likely after Jeremy's legal issues are resolved. The plan is to call them "Second Sons". Get it? SS. Masterminds of comedy these guys are.
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Active Club members were recently arrested on terrorism related charges. This will likely affect their recruiting ability. Ferryman doesn't explicitly say this but look for these new Diagolon groups to try and fill that void.
So I've laid it all out as best as I could. You'll likely notice that
Jeremy Mackenzie is largely absent from this discussion. He hasn't been streaming as frequently because he is focused on his
various legal issues.
Obviously I was being a bit provocative in how I titled this post but I do feel it's a valid question.
What activity does it take to cross the line into Neo-Nazism? Recruiting for Neo-Nazi fight clubs? Citing Hitler for your antisemitic views? Holocaust denial?
Diagolon is a decentralized movement. There's no real leader or membership but there are certainly prominent speakers within the community.
Is it fair to label their entire movement as Neo-Nazi based on the examples I've provided? Certainly something worth thinking about.
Here Derek Harrison "jokes" about Muslims getting run over by an ambulance. That seems to be a pattern with him.
