The Following article contains information about former US Army 10th Mountain Division, 32nd infantry regiment soldier and accelerationist neo-Nazi Kyle Christopher Benton (DOB: 04/11/1996).
Until early-June 2020, Benton was living with his partner Sarah Benton at Ft. Drum, NY, but has since broken up with her, been discharged from the military, and moved back to the Astoria, OR area of the Pacific Northwest. Benton may also be spending time in Snohomish, WA with a new romantic partner, who, judging by social media output, thus far appears to be unaware of the extent of his neo-Nazi beliefs & activities.
Benton is a virulent racist & antisemite, a prolific neo-Nazi propagandist, a customer of neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s “Based Tactical” e-store, a participant in “Boogaloo” subculture, and a trained US Army veteran who presents a genuine threat to the people around him.
Kyle Benton Posted Nazi Propaganda at a PDX Black Lives Matter Protest
On Sunday June 21, 2020, Astoria, OR based neo-Nazi Kyle Christopher Benton crept around SE Portland’s Washington High School grounds (now the site of a popular music venue) along with a companion. Benton wore a black balaclava and a hoodie featuring a modified version of the Nazi Wehrmacht Luftwaffe insignia, while his companion wore a dark colored hoodie and a “skull mask” face wrap of the sort which has become indelibly associated with accelerationist neo-Nazi murder cults like Atomwaffen Division & The Base. They nervously fumbled with a scotch tape dispenser around the edges of the property, taking turns filming one another as they clumsily affixed neo-Nazi “It’s Okay To Be White” posters to various surfaces from which almost all of them would fall to the ground within mere minutes. They also covered a laminated photograph of George Floyd’s face with a neo-Nazi sticker (a combination sonnenrad and swastika) printed on office label paper.
Stills from a video: Kyle Benton and his fellow neo-Nazi friend put up posters from the neo-Nazi “It’s Okay To Be White” propaganda campaign at the site of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland.
Photos posted by neo-Nazi Kyle Benton to his Liftwaffle Telegram channel of himself and his friend putting up Nazi propaganda at the site of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland.
Kyle Benton’s “Join Or Die” tattoo is clearly visible in documentation on the Liftwaffle Telegram channel from his neo-Nazi propaganda run in PDX, as well as in countless photos from his “normie” social media accounts.
Two nights prior, Benton had undertaken what might pass for “reconnaissance” at the site, which has become a gathering place for protesters during recent uprisings against the US police’s endless racist murders. On June 19 (Juneteenth), he attempted to blend in with the protest crowd by wearing the kind of surgical mask which has become ubiquitous during the coronavirus pandemic. He observed the scene, taking multiple photos and videos which he posted to his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel along with racist captions and comments. That night’s “Liftwaffle” actions at this protest site were limited to placing one neo-Nazi sonnenrad sticker amidst the anti-racist posters & placards placed there by community members. Kyle and a friend of his named Kasey also visited the site of the recently toppled George Washington statue on NE 57th and Sandy, where they engaged in a precious, finicky, NIMBY-esque performative attempt to clean graffiti off pieces of the overturned slaveholder’s statue.
During a Juneteenth Black Lives Matter demonstration, neo-Nazi Kyle Benton surreptitiously takes video of strangers and posts it to his Telegram channel with misogynist and racist commentary
Kyle Benton posts footage of people dancing during a Juneteenth Black Lives Matter protest and references the “White Genocide” conspiracy theory as well as paleoconservative Pat Buchanan’s racist book “The Death Of The West” (a seminal piece of literature for the Proud Boys hate group). In the comments, Benton also references the neo-Nazi “14 Words” slogan.
Kyle Benton’s “Liftwaffle” Twitter account featuring documentation of neo-Nazi propaganda he put up at Washington High School on the evening of June 19.
An Instagram post from several months earlier shows Kyle Benton posing with the same neo-Nazi stickers he put up in Portland on 6/19/2020.
During part of the evening on June 19th, Kyle Benton and his friend Kasey whip out a scrubber sponge and make a pathetic attempt to remove anti-police and anti-racist tags from the base of the toppled George Washington statue; another instance in which Benton and his friend seem intent on repressing a popular uprising using only household materials that two twelve-year-olds could purchase at a convenience store.
Kyle Benton’s friend Kasey was present with him on the evening of 6/19/2020 at the toppled George Washington statue, and also during the day on 6/20/2020 (after Benton placed a swastika sticker at the Black Lives Matter rally), when he and Kyle filmed a bit of racist banter and then posted it to Benton’s tiktok channel.
A sampling of Kyle Benton’s neo-Nazi Telegram posts between his two visits to Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland. RCA has redacted his frequent use of anti-black racial slurs.
Kyle Benton’s US Military Career
Notwithstanding his profound resemblance to a shitposting, wignat version of Dylan from American Vandal Season 1, Kyle Benton appears to have enlisted, and then (until early June 2020) been attached to the 32nd infantry regiment of the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army. In some social media posts, he displays 10th Mountain Division patches on both shoulders, implying that he had been deployed with that unit. On June 16th, Benton indicated via a video from his “kiloblunton” TikTok account that he had recently acquired a DD-214 discharge, and stated that “I don’t gotta watch what I say no more.” Documentation produced by RCA’s research, however, will demonstrate that, fitting an ongoing problem of white supremacist agitation from within trained & enlisted US Military ranks, Benton actively produced & disseminated large quantities of accelerationist neo-Nazi propaganda during the time of his active duty service, and that he is now attempting to further proselytize to the large (21k+) following his Army-themed posts netted his “kiloblunton” account on the social media platform TikTok.
Kyle Benton posts images of his military Common Access Card on his TikTok account.
Liftwaffle Telegram / Kyle Benton US Army Tiktok comparisons by date
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 11/12/2019. The liftwaffle posts contain multiple Nazi Sonnenrad symbols.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 12/21/2019. The liftwaffle post contain multiple Nazi symbols as well as a reference to antisemitic actor Mel Gibson.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 01/30/2020. The liftwaffle posts contain pro-Nazi propaganda.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 03/27/2020. The Telegram posts contain liftwaffle patches which Benton occasionally sells as merchandise, as well as the antisemitic phrase “The Goyim Know”
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 03/29/2020. The Telegram posts contain references to racist Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, as well as exhortations to mass murder with the phrase “KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL”
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 04/14/2020. The liftwaffle post indicates Benton’s extreme antisemitism.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 05/15/2020. The liftwaffle post contains a neo-Nazi slogan advocating pro-Holocaust antisemitic mass murder: “Gas the k_kes, Race war now!”.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 05/20/2020. The liftwaffle post contains pro-Nazi propaganda as well as exhortations to eco-fascist antisemitic guerrilla attacks using the triple parentheses meme in the phrase “(((THEY))) ARE COMING / TAKE TO THE FOREST”
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 06/09/2020. The Telegram posts contain antisemitic & pro-Nazi propaganda.
Liftwaffle Tiktok / Kyle Benton US Army Tiktok comparisons by date
Kyle Benton also maintained an explicitly neo-Nazi @liftwaffle TikTok account until mid-June of 2020, at which time the account was suspended.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 10/10/2019. The liftwaffle post (captured in three separate screenshots in this instance) contains references to the White Genocide conspiracy theory, a partial rendition of the triple parentheses meme, and footage celebrating Joey Gibson’s exceptionally violent 06/30/2018 rally where Patriot Prayer & Proud Boys committed assaults with impunity in Downtown Portland.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 01/30/2020. The liftwaffle post encourages his followers to read “Siege” by James Mason. Siege is a foundational manual for accelerationist neo-Nazi organizations like Atomwaffen Division & The Base.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 03/27/2020. The liftwaffle post contains Nazi imagery as well as Benton’s liftwaffle logo.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 03/29/2020. The liftwaffle post contains a Nazi sonnenrad symbol and the antisemitic slogan “The Goyim Know”.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 04/03/2020. The liftwaffle post contains a figure in the skull mask that has become associated with Atomwaffen Division in front of a Nazi sonnenrad symbol with text encouraging terrorist attacks.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 04/14/2020. The liftwaffle post indicates Benton’s desire that antisemitism should become widespread throughout society in 2020.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 04/16/2020. The liftwaffle post contains an antisemitic caricature known as the happy merchant.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 05/11/2020. The liftwaffle post (captured in three separate screenshots in this instance) indicates Benton’s extreme antisemitism and advocates for the mass murder of Jewish people, calling them a “parasite”.
Nazi-Posting on Main
Despite occasional weak nods toward operational security, Benton has always allowed his neo-Nazi beliefs to trickle onto his “normie” social media, apparently believing that it would never cause him any trouble since the US Military allowed him to engage in white supremacist proselytizing with no consequences. He has been posting increasing amounts of fascist propaganda on his regular account since his discharge from the military.
On 7/3/2019, Kyle Benton performs a vignette for his TikTok audience which articulates a version of far-right tropes which posit that England has become too diverse, and that WWII veterans would have preferred the world that would have resulted if the Nazis had won.
Benton takes the opportunity to show off some Nazi paraphernalia & play a Nazi marching anthem to his TikTok audience.
Benton casually exposes his enormous TikTok following to antisemitic Nazi conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.
Kyle Benton posts “Boogaloo” signifiers like the “Big Luau” Hawaiian shirt, while also using the accelerationist neo-Nazi hashtag “siege” and posting Nazi sig runes in response to someone complimenting his skull mask.
Benton displays a Nazi totenkopf patch above a “pinegang” patch.
Benton encourages his TikTok followers who are interested in “Boogaloo” subculture to embrace overt Nazi ideology and its attendent symbols such as the Totenkopf. “Splintertarn” refers to a specific camouflage pattern used by the Nazi Wehrmacht.
Benton shows off the Nazi patches and camouflage pattern on his Boogaloo gear.
Benton, like many members of the alt-right and other neo-Nazis, performatively signals disillusionment with Trump, referencing the triple parentheses meme to suggest that Trump is controlled by a world-dominating Jewish conspiracy.
Benton proselytizes to his “normie” TikTok followers about his belief that a Nazi regime similar to the one which displaced the Weimar Republic in Germany can and should come to power in the United States.
Kyle Benton, after posting a number of videos coyly exploring the idea of perpetrating violence against the “CHAZ,” claims that he was only joking. Benton then deploys a facile rhetorical strategy he learned from James Mason who, in a 2019 interview with a Denver NBC affiliate first appeared to discourage neo-Nazi terrorism, but then added “If you must do it, it seems to me to be only common sense that you’d want to do it right, because it’s the end of your life. You may die out there in the street via SWAT team, or you may spend the rest of your life in the joint. Make it count for god’s sake.” Accelerationists believe this way of speaking provides them with plausible deniability when one of their followers inevitably acts on their exhortations to violence.
Benton posts a “duet” video in which he wears the Liftwaffle logo hoodie and balaclava which he would wear later that day to put up neo-Nazi propaganda at the site of Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, OR.
Benton re-posts overtly neo-Nazi content from his liftwaffle Telegram channel to the twenty thousand followers on his “normie” account. This video uses the triple parentheses meme & encourages eco-fascist antisemitic guerrilla attacks.
Kyle Benton asks his viewers what kind of content they’d like to see. Neo-Nazis among his followers recommend James Mason’s “Siege,” and antisemitic content on the “JQ” or “Jewish Question”. Benton also directs his followers toward his neo-Nazi Liftwaffle channel on Telegram.
Kyle Benton displays a Nazi Sonnenrad patch he purchased from neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s Based Tactical e-store.
In a video on his “normie” TikTok account, Benton carries a rifle while modeling a Nazi Feldmütze cap adorned with a Totenkopf and a Nazi Reichsadler.
Benton makes videos bragging about the large TikTok following to whom he preaches Nazi propaganda.
Sarah Benton aka Liftwaifu
Kyle Benton’s recent ex-partner Sarah Benton maintained social media under the neo-Nazi persona of “LiftWaifu” while they were together.
Photos of Sarah Benton from the Liftwaffle Telegram channel, her personal Instagram, and her “Liftwaifu” neo-Nazi social media accounts.
Photos from Sarah Benton’s personal Facebook page clearly show her posing in the same bathroom mirror as Kyle Benton’s neo-Nazi selfies from the liftwaffle Telegram channel
A post on Sarah Benton’s Facebook shows her posing with Kyle Benton on a bridge in Connecticut. Near-simultaneous posts on the liftwaffle Telegram channel indicate that they also decided to do a quick skull-mask photo shoot for their neo-Nazi fans as well.
Photos of Sarah Benton posted by Kyle on various of his subsequently-banned neo-Nazi liftwaffle Instagram accounts. The post on the right features the neo-Nazi code “14/88“
Photos of Sarah Benton as “Liftwaifu” and from her personal Facebook page.
Sarah Benton uses her personal “normie” Facebook account to share content from a page called “Western Chauvinist Memes,” echoing the ethos of the neo-fascist Proud Boys hate group.
Neo-Nazi Based Tactical Brand Ambassador Kyle Benton
Social media posts indicate that Kyle Benton has made multiple purchases from accelerationist neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s “Based Tactical” web-store.
Neo-Nazi Kyle Benton wears a Based Tactical shirt in one of his @kiloblunton tiktok videos.
Kyle Benton tells an Instagram follower that he bought his Nazi sonnenrad patch from neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s Based Tactical web-store
Kyle and Sarah Benton have both worn sunglasses called “Hammer Shades” which feature the Nazi doppelte Siegrune and which neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker subsequently began selling through his web-store.
Kyle Benton posts that he is mad online after RCA exposed & disrupted his friend neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s tactical gear & fascist propaganda e-store
Younger Life and Troll Culture
RCA’s research into Benton has uncovered social media posts dating back to 2014 which indicate that Benton was an avid participant in ambiguously ironic, proto-alt-right internet troll culture, where users competed to outdo one another in serving up offensive content. Multiple posts complain about his repeated bans from the social media platform iFunny, and he also frequently made posts which served as requiems for his troll friends who had been banned. This kind of “edgy” irony is a well-established feature of fascism, as it frequently seems to have a utility in softening participants’ resistance to unironic hatred, racism, and murder by continuous exposure to content which they position themselves to defend as “just jokes”. Benton’s posts contain copious racial slurs, pro-Nazi content, and also indicate that he was in possession of a KKK flag as early as 2014, if not before. As the 2016 US Presidential election drew near, his posts also included pro-Trump content.
Kyle Benton posts a video with his KKK flag in 2014.
Kyle Benton posts a video with his KKK flag advocating anti-black lynchings & murder in 2015.
Kyle Benton continues to post videos using vile racial slurs.
Kyle Benton posts a video with his KKK flag and then turns the camera on himself to reveal that he is wearing blackface and sarcastically shouting “Black Lives Matter”
Benton continues to post videos using anti-black racial slurs, and also praises Hitler.
Kyle Benton posts vine videos glorifying Adolf Hitler & the Nazi Party.
In late 2016, Benton films himself and a couple of his friends slashing and stabbing a garbage can, while apparently pretending they are murdering a black person.
Benton mocks liberals in 2016 over their concerns about the possible election of Donald Trump.
Regarding Telegram
Telegram has a serious Nazi problem.
Kyle Benton posts an antisemitic Telegram video on featuring a photo of his friend (with whom he posted white supremacist propaganda on 6/21/2020 in Portland) dressed up in Atomwaffen-style attire, encouraging followers of his Liftwaffle Telegram channel to “murder your local rabbi”
The messaging app was developed by Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, who became rich after founding the Russian equivalent of Facebook, VKontakte. Durov self-funded the development of Telegram to avoid censorship in Russia and digital surveillence in the United States, providing a partially-encrypted messaging platform that prevented messages from being read by any third parties. In September of 2015, Telegram added a feature called “Channels”, which allowed a user to broadcast messages to any other users who “joined” that channel.
Because the project was self-funded and not seeking to maintain significant profits, many of the content moderation dynamics present in other social media are nearly absent in Telegram. In this sense, it’s not unlike websites like 8chan‘s /pol/ message board, and it’s successor, 8kun, which were and are well known for being hothouses in which reactionary fascist and racist ideologies are able to grow and spread unchecked. The Channel feature was quickly adopted by fascists and the far-right, as well as ISIS and their supporters. This provided them a way to broadcast their messaging without even the weak oversight and moderation present on other platforms like Twitter or Facebook. After the deadly bombing and mass shooting that took place in Paris in November 2015, Telegram removed about 80 ISIS-associated channels. But in the absence of more structured and funded moderation, third-party monitoring organizations still report hundreds of new ISIS-associated channels and bots banned every day. In 2017, Telegram was described as the “app of choice” for ISIS.
More recently, extremism researchers focusing on the reactionary far-right in North America have had to become familar with the platform as it’s become enormously popular with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, especially in the wake of the March 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch. Telegram was one of the platforms on which the shooter’s livestream circulated widely, amassing more than 72,000 views. The app provides a completely unmoderated platform that enables the widespread circulation of reactionary propaganda, as well as allowing the far right to communicate and plan for events. There are channels dedicated to coordinated harassment campaigns, and in September of 2019, Telegram users collaborated to create a list of Jewish people – a project even too overtly antisemitic for the newly semi-moderated 4chan. Telegram has also become a platform that many alt-right celebrities rely on following bans from Facebook and Twitter, allowing them to retain followings of thousands of people.
Telegram was briefly removed from the Apple App Store in February of 2018 because it’s content violated Apple’s Terms of Service, but it remains curently available for download and use on both iOS and Android devices. And while some channels are not accessible via a mobile device because of their content, there are easily accessible tutorials on how to circumvent these restrictions, often shared and promoted by channels facing these bans. There are no such restrictions on the desktop version of Telegram.
The following are some examples of Kyle Benton’s Telegram posts.
Kyle Benton posts a collection of neo-Nazi memes and images he created. They are filled with Nazi symbols like the Sonnenrad and his custom variation of the national symbol of the German Nazi Party.
Kyle Benton paraphrasing neo-Nazi James Mason’s work Siege when finding himself in conflict with his Nazi peers. Siege is a central text for contemporary accelerationist neo-Nazis.
Kyle Benton develops his neo-Nazi brand with custom hoodies.
Benton takes to Telegram to post a picture of himself posing in camoflage customized with a patch featuring his neo-Nazi brand logo. He also wears a skull mask, a favorite of those who endorse James Mason’s neo-Nazi text Siege.
Benton shares a misogynist post on his Telegram channel, reducing women’s value to their ability to reproduce.
Benton posts edited photos of himself and his then-partner Sarah Benton aka Liftwaifu.
In his pinned post on his Telegram channel, neo-Nazi Kyle Benton types up a racist tirade, including the use of the anti-Semitic ‘triple parantheses’, and calls for people to take action against “invaders and racial aliens”. He goes on to say the only thing keeping him from moving on from the “annoyances” he has participated in and “taking up arms” to commit acts of violence against the people he describes this way is that he doesn’t think he’ll be supported by his neo-Nazi peers.
Kyle Benton develops his neo-Nazi brand with custom t-shirts.
On Telegram, neo-Nazi Kyle Benton posts a bathroom selfie while dressed for combat.
Making it’s source abundantly clear, Kyle Benton juxtaposes his custom brand logo alongside it’s origin, the symbol of the German Nazi Party.
On Telegram, Kyle Benton posts a meme illustrating what he believes would be part of his neo-Nazi political program – willingness of it’s adherents to engage in, among other things, lynching.
Benton posts a selfie on Telegram, featuring a skull mask and his custom hoodie.
Kyle Benton posts content from antisemitic comics artist “StoneToss”
Kyle Benton whines about having been banned from one of the many white supremacist Telegram channels in which users encourage one another to engage in acts of neo-Nazi terrorism and murder.
Kyle Benton posts screenshots to help his followers find the newest iterations of his social media accounts, which are constantly banned because of TOS violations pertaining to hate speech & death threats. He also indicates that he attempts to obscure overt fascist imagery in his video edits in order to avoid being flagged by automated content moderation algorithms.
Additional Receipts
Kyle Benton remarks that he was able to keep a video encouraging antisemitic murder up on his “normie” kiloblunton TikTok account for longer than he thought he would be able to. This is more content that he is cross-posting from his accelerationist neo-Nazi “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel.
Kyle Benton, a virulent misogynist, uses slang most commonly found in the “incel” milieu to degrade a woman on Twitter.
Accelerationist neo-Nazi Kyle Benton recommends “Harassment Architecture” by ex-Milo-Yiannopoulos-intern Mike Mahoney (aka Mike Ma). RCA has previously reported on fascist propagandist Mike Mahoney, when the PSU College Republicans hosted him for a talk.
Months before Kyle Benton posted neo-Nazi propaganda at the site of Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, OR, he was making white supremacist Instagram posts about the racist murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
We Watch Out For One Another
Kyle Benton’s military training combined with his virulent accelerationist neo-Nazi beliefs—including frequent exhortations toward antisemitic, racist acts of murder and terrorism—make him a danger to everyone he encounters. Rose City Antifa is dedicated to the pursuit of communities free of antisemitic, racist, and homophobic propaganda, and to exposing neo-Nazis before their ideology manifests itself in action.
If you have further information on Kyle Benton, Liftwaffle or any other fascist organizing in the Pacific Northwest, please contact Rose City Antifa at [email protected].
RCA extends our gratitude to @AntifaGarfield (Garfield but Anti-Fascist) for superbly-researched tips that were crucial to the confirmation of Kyle Benton’s identity. Teamwork makes the dream work.
reposted from Rose City Antifa
The Following article contains information about former US Army 10th Mountain Division, 32nd infantry regiment soldier and accelerationist neo-Nazi Kyle Christopher Benton (DOB: 04/11/1996).
Until early-June 2020, Benton was living with his partner Sarah Benton at Ft. Drum, NY, but has since broken up with her, been discharged from the military, and moved back to the Astoria, OR area of the Pacific Northwest. Benton may also be spending time in Snohomish, WA with a new romantic partner, who, judging by social media output, thus far appears to be unaware of the extent of his neo-Nazi beliefs & activities.
Benton is a virulent racist & antisemite, a prolific neo-Nazi propagandist, a customer of neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s “Based Tactical” e-store, a participant in “Boogaloo” subculture, and a trained US Army veteran who presents a genuine threat to the people around him.
Kyle Benton Posted Nazi Propaganda at a PDX Black Lives Matter Protest
On Sunday June 21, 2020, Astoria, OR based neo-Nazi Kyle Christopher Benton crept around SE Portland’s Washington High School grounds (now the site of a popular music venue) along with a companion. Benton wore a black balaclava and a hoodie featuring a modified version of the Nazi Wehrmacht Luftwaffe insignia, while his companion wore a dark colored hoodie and a “skull mask” face wrap of the sort which has become indelibly associated with accelerationist neo-Nazi murder cults like Atomwaffen Division & The Base. They nervously fumbled with a scotch tape dispenser around the edges of the property, taking turns filming one another as they clumsily affixed neo-Nazi “It’s Okay To Be White” posters to various surfaces from which almost all of them would fall to the ground within mere minutes. They also covered a laminated photograph of George Floyd’s face with a neo-Nazi sticker (a combination sonnenrad and swastika) printed on office label paper.
Stills from a video: Kyle Benton and his fellow neo-Nazi friend put up posters from the neo-Nazi “It’s Okay To Be White” propaganda campaign at the site of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland.
Photos posted by neo-Nazi Kyle Benton to his Liftwaffle Telegram channel of himself and his friend putting up Nazi propaganda at the site of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland.
Kyle Benton’s “Join Or Die” tattoo is clearly visible in documentation on the Liftwaffle Telegram channel from his neo-Nazi propaganda run in PDX, as well as in countless photos from his “normie” social media accounts.
Two nights prior, Benton had undertaken what might pass for “reconnaissance” at the site, which has become a gathering place for protesters during recent uprisings against the US police’s endless racist murders. On June 19 (Juneteenth), he attempted to blend in with the protest crowd by wearing the kind of surgical mask which has become ubiquitous during the coronavirus pandemic. He observed the scene, taking multiple photos and videos which he posted to his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel along with racist captions and comments. That night’s “Liftwaffle” actions at this protest site were limited to placing one neo-Nazi sonnenrad sticker amidst the anti-racist posters & placards placed there by community members. Kyle and a friend of his named Kasey also visited the site of the recently toppled George Washington statue on NE 57th and Sandy, where they engaged in a precious, finicky, NIMBY-esque performative attempt to clean graffiti off pieces of the overturned slaveholder’s statue.
During a Juneteenth Black Lives Matter demonstration, neo-Nazi Kyle Benton surreptitiously takes video of strangers and posts it to his Telegram channel with misogynist and racist commentary
Kyle Benton posts footage of people dancing during a Juneteenth Black Lives Matter protest and references the “White Genocide” conspiracy theory as well as paleoconservative Pat Buchanan’s racist book “The Death Of The West” (a seminal piece of literature for the Proud Boys hate group). In the comments, Benton also references the neo-Nazi “14 Words” slogan.
Kyle Benton’s “Liftwaffle” Twitter account featuring documentation of neo-Nazi propaganda he put up at Washington High School on the evening of June 19.
An Instagram post from several months earlier shows Kyle Benton posing with the same neo-Nazi stickers he put up in Portland on 6/19/2020.
During part of the evening on June 19th, Kyle Benton and his friend Kasey whip out a scrubber sponge and make a pathetic attempt to remove anti-police and anti-racist tags from the base of the toppled George Washington statue; another instance in which Benton and his friend seem intent on repressing a popular uprising using only household materials that two twelve-year-olds could purchase at a convenience store.
Kyle Benton’s friend Kasey was present with him on the evening of 6/19/2020 at the toppled George Washington statue, and also during the day on 6/20/2020 (after Benton placed a swastika sticker at the Black Lives Matter rally), when he and Kyle filmed a bit of racist banter and then posted it to Benton’s tiktok channel.
A sampling of Kyle Benton’s neo-Nazi Telegram posts between his two visits to Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland. RCA has redacted his frequent use of anti-black racial slurs.
Kyle Benton’s US Military Career
Notwithstanding his profound resemblance to a shitposting, wignat version of Dylan from American Vandal Season 1, Kyle Benton appears to have enlisted, and then (until early June 2020) been attached to the 32nd infantry regiment of the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army. In some social media posts, he displays 10th Mountain Division patches on both shoulders, implying that he had been deployed with that unit. On June 16th, Benton indicated via a video from his “kiloblunton” TikTok account that he had recently acquired a DD-214 discharge, and stated that “I don’t gotta watch what I say no more.” Documentation produced by RCA’s research, however, will demonstrate that, fitting an ongoing problem of white supremacist agitation from within trained & enlisted US Military ranks, Benton actively produced & disseminated large quantities of accelerationist neo-Nazi propaganda during the time of his active duty service, and that he is now attempting to further proselytize to the large (21k+) following his Army-themed posts netted his “kiloblunton” account on the social media platform TikTok.
Kyle Benton posts images of his military Common Access Card on his TikTok account.
Liftwaffle Telegram / Kyle Benton US Army Tiktok comparisons by date
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 11/12/2019. The liftwaffle posts contain multiple Nazi Sonnenrad symbols.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 12/21/2019. The liftwaffle post contain multiple Nazi symbols as well as a reference to antisemitic actor Mel Gibson.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 01/30/2020. The liftwaffle posts contain pro-Nazi propaganda.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 03/27/2020. The Telegram posts contain liftwaffle patches which Benton occasionally sells as merchandise, as well as the antisemitic phrase “The Goyim Know”
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 03/29/2020. The Telegram posts contain references to racist Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson, as well as exhortations to mass murder with the phrase “KILL THEM, KILL THEM ALL”
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 04/14/2020. The liftwaffle post indicates Benton’s extreme antisemitism.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 05/15/2020. The liftwaffle post contains a neo-Nazi slogan advocating pro-Holocaust antisemitic mass murder: “Gas the k_kes, Race war now!”.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 05/20/2020. The liftwaffle post contains pro-Nazi propaganda as well as exhortations to eco-fascist antisemitic guerrilla attacks using the triple parentheses meme in the phrase “(((THEY))) ARE COMING / TAKE TO THE FOREST”
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel (right) circa 06/09/2020. The Telegram posts contain antisemitic & pro-Nazi propaganda.
Liftwaffle Tiktok / Kyle Benton US Army Tiktok comparisons by date
Kyle Benton also maintained an explicitly neo-Nazi @liftwaffle TikTok account until mid-June of 2020, at which time the account was suspended.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 10/10/2019. The liftwaffle post (captured in three separate screenshots in this instance) contains references to the White Genocide conspiracy theory, a partial rendition of the triple parentheses meme, and footage celebrating Joey Gibson’s exceptionally violent 06/30/2018 rally where Patriot Prayer & Proud Boys committed assaults with impunity in Downtown Portland.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 01/30/2020. The liftwaffle post encourages his followers to read “Siege” by James Mason. Siege is a foundational manual for accelerationist neo-Nazi organizations like Atomwaffen Division & The Base.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 03/27/2020. The liftwaffle post contains Nazi imagery as well as Benton’s liftwaffle logo.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 03/29/2020. The liftwaffle post contains a Nazi sonnenrad symbol and the antisemitic slogan “The Goyim Know”.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 04/03/2020. The liftwaffle post contains a figure in the skull mask that has become associated with Atomwaffen Division in front of a Nazi sonnenrad symbol with text encouraging terrorist attacks.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 04/14/2020. The liftwaffle post indicates Benton’s desire that antisemitism should become widespread throughout society in 2020.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 04/16/2020. The liftwaffle post contains an antisemitic caricature known as the happy merchant.
Comparison of Kyle Benton’s “normie” US Army post from his “kiloblunton” Tiktok (left), with the neo-Nazi propaganda he was simultaneously disseminating via his “Liftwaffle” Tiktok (right) circa 05/11/2020. The liftwaffle post (captured in three separate screenshots in this instance) indicates Benton’s extreme antisemitism and advocates for the mass murder of Jewish people, calling them a “parasite”.
Nazi-Posting on Main
Despite occasional weak nods toward operational security, Benton has always allowed his neo-Nazi beliefs to trickle onto his “normie” social media, apparently believing that it would never cause him any trouble since the US Military allowed him to engage in white supremacist proselytizing with no consequences. He has been posting increasing amounts of fascist propaganda on his regular account since his discharge from the military.
On 7/3/2019, Kyle Benton performs a vignette for his TikTok audience which articulates a version of far-right tropes which posit that England has become too diverse, and that WWII veterans would have preferred the world that would have resulted if the Nazis had won.
Benton takes the opportunity to show off some Nazi paraphernalia & play a Nazi marching anthem to his TikTok audience.
Benton casually exposes his enormous TikTok following to antisemitic Nazi conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.
Kyle Benton posts “Boogaloo” signifiers like the “Big Luau” Hawaiian shirt, while also using the accelerationist neo-Nazi hashtag “siege” and posting Nazi sig runes in response to someone complimenting his skull mask.
Benton displays a Nazi totenkopf patch above a “pinegang” patch.
Benton encourages his TikTok followers who are interested in “Boogaloo” subculture to embrace overt Nazi ideology and its attendent symbols such as the Totenkopf. “Splintertarn” refers to a specific camouflage pattern used by the Nazi Wehrmacht.
Benton shows off the Nazi patches and camouflage pattern on his Boogaloo gear.
Benton, like many members of the alt-right and other neo-Nazis, performatively signals disillusionment with Trump, referencing the triple parentheses meme to suggest that Trump is controlled by a world-dominating Jewish conspiracy.
Benton proselytizes to his “normie” TikTok followers about his belief that a Nazi regime similar to the one which displaced the Weimar Republic in Germany can and should come to power in the United States.
Kyle Benton, after posting a number of videos coyly exploring the idea of perpetrating violence against the “CHAZ,” claims that he was only joking. Benton then deploys a facile rhetorical strategy he learned from James Mason who, in a 2019 interview with a Denver NBC affiliate first appeared to discourage neo-Nazi terrorism, but then added “If you must do it, it seems to me to be only common sense that you’d want to do it right, because it’s the end of your life. You may die out there in the street via SWAT team, or you may spend the rest of your life in the joint. Make it count for god’s sake.” Accelerationists believe this way of speaking provides them with plausible deniability when one of their followers inevitably acts on their exhortations to violence.
Benton posts a “duet” video in which he wears the Liftwaffle logo hoodie and balaclava which he would wear later that day to put up neo-Nazi propaganda at the site of Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, OR.
Benton re-posts overtly neo-Nazi content from his liftwaffle Telegram channel to the twenty thousand followers on his “normie” account. This video uses the triple parentheses meme & encourages eco-fascist antisemitic guerrilla attacks.
Kyle Benton asks his viewers what kind of content they’d like to see. Neo-Nazis among his followers recommend James Mason’s “Siege,” and antisemitic content on the “JQ” or “Jewish Question”. Benton also directs his followers toward his neo-Nazi Liftwaffle channel on Telegram.
Kyle Benton displays a Nazi Sonnenrad patch he purchased from neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s Based Tactical e-store.
In a video on his “normie” TikTok account, Benton carries a rifle while modeling a Nazi Feldmütze cap adorned with a Totenkopf and a Nazi Reichsadler.
Benton makes videos bragging about the large TikTok following to whom he preaches Nazi propaganda.
Sarah Benton aka Liftwaifu
Kyle Benton’s recent ex-partner Sarah Benton maintained social media under the neo-Nazi persona of “LiftWaifu” while they were together.
Photos of Sarah Benton from the Liftwaffle Telegram channel, her personal Instagram, and her “Liftwaifu” neo-Nazi social media accounts.
Photos from Sarah Benton’s personal Facebook page clearly show her posing in the same bathroom mirror as Kyle Benton’s neo-Nazi selfies from the liftwaffle Telegram channel
A post on Sarah Benton’s Facebook shows her posing with Kyle Benton on a bridge in Connecticut. Near-simultaneous posts on the liftwaffle Telegram channel indicate that they also decided to do a quick skull-mask photo shoot for their neo-Nazi fans as well.
Photos of Sarah Benton posted by Kyle on various of his subsequently-banned neo-Nazi liftwaffle Instagram accounts. The post on the right features the neo-Nazi code “14/88“
Photos of Sarah Benton as “Liftwaifu” and from her personal Facebook page.
Sarah Benton uses her personal “normie” Facebook account to share content from a page called “Western Chauvinist Memes,” echoing the ethos of the neo-fascist Proud Boys hate group.
Neo-Nazi Based Tactical Brand Ambassador Kyle Benton
Social media posts indicate that Kyle Benton has made multiple purchases from accelerationist neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s “Based Tactical” web-store.
Neo-Nazi Kyle Benton wears a Based Tactical shirt in one of his @kiloblunton tiktok videos.
Kyle Benton tells an Instagram follower that he bought his Nazi sonnenrad patch from neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s Based Tactical web-store
Kyle and Sarah Benton have both worn sunglasses called “Hammer Shades” which feature the Nazi doppelte Siegrune and which neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker subsequently began selling through his web-store.
Kyle Benton posts that he is mad online after RCA exposed & disrupted his friend neo-Nazi Aaron Schomaker’s tactical gear & fascist propaganda e-store
Younger Life and Troll Culture
RCA’s research into Benton has uncovered social media posts dating back to 2014 which indicate that Benton was an avid participant in ambiguously ironic, proto-alt-right internet troll culture, where users competed to outdo one another in serving up offensive content. Multiple posts complain about his repeated bans from the social media platform iFunny, and he also frequently made posts which served as requiems for his troll friends who had been banned. This kind of “edgy” irony is a well-established feature of fascism, as it frequently seems to have a utility in softening participants’ resistance to unironic hatred, racism, and murder by continuous exposure to content which they position themselves to defend as “just jokes”. Benton’s posts contain copious racial slurs, pro-Nazi content, and also indicate that he was in possession of a KKK flag as early as 2014, if not before. As the 2016 US Presidential election drew near, his posts also included pro-Trump content.
Kyle Benton posts a video with his KKK flag in 2014.
Kyle Benton posts a video with his KKK flag advocating anti-black lynchings & murder in 2015.
Kyle Benton continues to post videos using vile racial slurs.
Kyle Benton posts a video with his KKK flag and then turns the camera on himself to reveal that he is wearing blackface and sarcastically shouting “Black Lives Matter”
Benton continues to post videos using anti-black racial slurs, and also praises Hitler.
Kyle Benton posts vine videos glorifying Adolf Hitler & the Nazi Party.
In late 2016, Benton films himself and a couple of his friends slashing and stabbing a garbage can, while apparently pretending they are murdering a black person.
Benton mocks liberals in 2016 over their concerns about the possible election of Donald Trump.
Regarding Telegram
Telegram has a serious Nazi problem.
Kyle Benton posts an antisemitic Telegram video on featuring a photo of his friend (with whom he posted white supremacist propaganda on 6/21/2020 in Portland) dressed up in Atomwaffen-style attire, encouraging followers of his Liftwaffle Telegram channel to “murder your local rabbi”
The messaging app was developed by Russian billionaire Pavel Durov, who became rich after founding the Russian equivalent of Facebook, VKontakte. Durov self-funded the development of Telegram to avoid censorship in Russia and digital surveillence in the United States, providing a partially-encrypted messaging platform that prevented messages from being read by any third parties. In September of 2015, Telegram added a feature called “Channels”, which allowed a user to broadcast messages to any other users who “joined” that channel.
Because the project was self-funded and not seeking to maintain significant profits, many of the content moderation dynamics present in other social media are nearly absent in Telegram. In this sense, it’s not unlike websites like 8chan‘s /pol/ message board, and it’s successor, 8kun, which were and are well known for being hothouses in which reactionary fascist and racist ideologies are able to grow and spread unchecked. The Channel feature was quickly adopted by fascists and the far-right, as well as ISIS and their supporters. This provided them a way to broadcast their messaging without even the weak oversight and moderation present on other platforms like Twitter or Facebook. After the deadly bombing and mass shooting that took place in Paris in November 2015, Telegram removed about 80 ISIS-associated channels. But in the absence of more structured and funded moderation, third-party monitoring organizations still report hundreds of new ISIS-associated channels and bots banned every day. In 2017, Telegram was described as the “app of choice” for ISIS.
More recently, extremism researchers focusing on the reactionary far-right in North America have had to become familar with the platform as it’s become enormously popular with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, especially in the wake of the March 2019 mass shooting in Christchurch. Telegram was one of the platforms on which the shooter’s livestream circulated widely, amassing more than 72,000 views. The app provides a completely unmoderated platform that enables the widespread circulation of reactionary propaganda, as well as allowing the far right to communicate and plan for events. There are channels dedicated to coordinated harassment campaigns, and in September of 2019, Telegram users collaborated to create a list of Jewish people – a project even too overtly antisemitic for the newly semi-moderated 4chan. Telegram has also become a platform that many alt-right celebrities rely on following bans from Facebook and Twitter, allowing them to retain followings of thousands of people.
Telegram was briefly removed from the Apple App Store in February of 2018 because it’s content violated Apple’s Terms of Service, but it remains curently available for download and use on both iOS and Android devices. And while some channels are not accessible via a mobile device because of their content, there are easily accessible tutorials on how to circumvent these restrictions, often shared and promoted by channels facing these bans. There are no such restrictions on the desktop version of Telegram.
The following are some examples of Kyle Benton’s Telegram posts.
Kyle Benton posts a collection of neo-Nazi memes and images he created. They are filled with Nazi symbols like the Sonnenrad and his custom variation of the national symbol of the German Nazi Party.
Kyle Benton paraphrasing neo-Nazi James Mason’s work Siege when finding himself in conflict with his Nazi peers. Siege is a central text for contemporary accelerationist neo-Nazis.
Kyle Benton develops his neo-Nazi brand with custom hoodies.
Benton takes to Telegram to post a picture of himself posing in camoflage customized with a patch featuring his neo-Nazi brand logo. He also wears a skull mask, a favorite of those who endorse James Mason’s neo-Nazi text Siege.
Benton shares a misogynist post on his Telegram channel, reducing women’s value to their ability to reproduce.
Benton posts edited photos of himself and his then-partner Sarah Benton aka Liftwaifu.
In his pinned post on his Telegram channel, neo-Nazi Kyle Benton types up a racist tirade, including the use of the anti-Semitic ‘triple parantheses’, and calls for people to take action against “invaders and racial aliens”. He goes on to say the only thing keeping him from moving on from the “annoyances” he has participated in and “taking up arms” to commit acts of violence against the people he describes this way is that he doesn’t think he’ll be supported by his neo-Nazi peers.
Kyle Benton develops his neo-Nazi brand with custom t-shirts.
On Telegram, neo-Nazi Kyle Benton posts a bathroom selfie while dressed for combat.
Making it’s source abundantly clear, Kyle Benton juxtaposes his custom brand logo alongside it’s origin, the symbol of the German Nazi Party.
On Telegram, Kyle Benton posts a meme illustrating what he believes would be part of his neo-Nazi political program – willingness of it’s adherents to engage in, among other things, lynching.
Benton posts a selfie on Telegram, featuring a skull mask and his custom hoodie.
Kyle Benton posts content from antisemitic comics artist “StoneToss”
Kyle Benton whines about having been banned from one of the many white supremacist Telegram channels in which users encourage one another to engage in acts of neo-Nazi terrorism and murder.
Kyle Benton posts screenshots to help his followers find the newest iterations of his social media accounts, which are constantly banned because of TOS violations pertaining to hate speech & death threats. He also indicates that he attempts to obscure overt fascist imagery in his video edits in order to avoid being flagged by automated content moderation algorithms.
Additional Receipts
Kyle Benton remarks that he was able to keep a video encouraging antisemitic murder up on his “normie” kiloblunton TikTok account for longer than he thought he would be able to. This is more content that he is cross-posting from his accelerationist neo-Nazi “Liftwaffle” Telegram channel.
Kyle Benton, a virulent misogynist, uses slang most commonly found in the “incel” milieu to degrade a woman on Twitter.
Accelerationist neo-Nazi Kyle Benton recommends “Harassment Architecture” by ex-Milo-Yiannopoulos-intern Mike Mahoney (aka Mike Ma). RCA has previously reported on fascist propagandist Mike Mahoney, when the PSU College Republicans hosted him for a talk.
Months before Kyle Benton posted neo-Nazi propaganda at the site of Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, OR, he was making white supremacist Instagram posts about the racist murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
We Watch Out For One Another
Kyle Benton’s military training combined with his virulent accelerationist neo-Nazi beliefs—including frequent exhortations toward antisemitic, racist acts of murder and terrorism—make him a danger to everyone he encounters. Rose City Antifa is dedicated to the pursuit of communities free of antisemitic, racist, and homophobic propaganda, and to exposing neo-Nazis before their ideology manifests itself in action.
If you have further information on Kyle Benton, Liftwaffle or any other fascist organizing in the Pacific Northwest, please contact Rose City Antifa at [email protected].
RCA extends our gratitude to @AntifaGarfield (Garfield but Anti-Fascist) for superbly-researched tips that were crucial to the confirmation of Kyle Benton’s identity. Teamwork makes the dream work.