What Is the Miss Hitler Pageant?
Unsurprising for 2020, but still grotesque.
Buchenwald
Four members of the far-right terrorist group National Action have received prison sentences.
Among them was Alice Cutter, a former participant in what's known as the "Miss Hitler" pageant—which is precisely as horrible, skewed, and grotesque as it sounds.
The pageant asks women to send in photos of themselves wearing Nazi paraphernalia, along with messages about why they "love and revere the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler."
In 2020 the pageant was set to run on a page on GoDaddy.com. In May, GoDaddy.com suspended the site after appeals from the Anti-Defamation Commission, who called it an "incitement to murder." The pageant, run by a network of neo-Nazis, ran on a site based out of Australia.
"The words sickening and stomach-churning do not even come close to describe this abomination," said Dr. Dr Dvir Abramovich, chairman of the ADC.
Cutter participated in the pageant in 2019 under the name "Miss Buchenwald." Buchenwald is the name of a concentration camp where around 60,000 people were murdered by Nazis.
Unsurprisingly, Cutter was involved in a neo-Nazi terrorist group. She received three and a half years in prison for her involvement with the group National Action, which was declared a terrorist group in 2016 after it praised the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. Cutter initially denied her involvement until a video surfaced of her with other members giving a Nazi salute and standing by a flag that read "Hitler Was Right." Cutter was also actively recruiting others to National Action, even unsuccessfully attempting to indoctrinate a 15-year-old girl.
Cutter and the three others she was arrested alongside were described as "diehards" by Max Hill, director of public prosecutions. Cutter's boyfriend pled guilty of holding a Nazi flag in the execution room of Buchenwald in 2016. The third arrestee, Garry Jack, was an active member of the group who was previously arrested for placing racist stickers around his college campus. The fourth, Connor Scothern, apparently printed stickers calling for a new "Final Solution."
All of them received between three and five years in prison—a wildly short time when you consider that some people are in jail for life for marijuana.
What is there to say about this pageant? Is Cutter's involvement a prime example of white women's vicious complicity in oppression, a grotesque display of the weaponization of white femininity? Why is Cutter's role as Miss Hitler trending on Twitter when real neo-Nazis are still active?
Clearly, genocidal white supremacy is as alive and as violent as ever—and it will take active anti-white-supremacist action to challenge it.
So for all you "all lives matter" folks who wish to believe we live in a post-racial world: Just remember that white people have believed their lives matter the most for a very long time—and the effects have been, well, horrifying.
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