The High School 'Asshole' Who Became a Blackface-Wearing Neo-Nazi Homeschool Dad
“The Lawrences knew everyone, and everyone knew them,” one town resident said about the couple that started the neo-Nazi homeschool network in Ohio.
By David Gilbert
February 7, 2023, 8:51am
When Logan Lawrence was unmasked last week as the co-founder of a neo-Nazi homeschooling network, some of his friends and former classmates said the news immediately rang true.
Lawrence, 36, who grew up in Upper Sandusky and until recently worked for his family’s insurance company, left a litany of signs of his racist beliefs over the years. He mocked Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech on his middle school intercom, had an obsession with WWII history in high school, and, later, dressed in racist garb at a local bar.
In now-deleted photos posted to the Facebook page of the Shotzy’s Bar and Grill restaurant in Upper Sandusky, which is owned by the sister of Logan’s best man at his wedding, Logan was photographed at multiple Halloween parties in blackface and other racist costumes. VICE News has confirmed with multiple people that it was Logan in the pictures. A representative of Shotzy’s Bar and Grill did not respond to a request for comment on the pictures.
One person who was at Logan’s wedding and at the parties where Logan wore these costumes, said she was not surprised at last week’s revelations.
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Posted by ancoco 2023-01-23
We have encountered some awful people in our time as anti-fascist researchers, but the worst are the ones that twist the minds of children. Today we present to you a seemingly typical, wholesome small-town American family, pillars of the community and local business owners. But behind closed doors, they raise their children to revere Adolf Hitler, teach them to hate people unlike themselves and encourage other families to do the same in a neo-Nazi homeschooling network. Today we take a look at “Mr. and Mrs. Saxon,” the “Dissident Homeschoolers.” No apple for teacher today!
The “Dissident Homeschool”
“Dissident Homeschool” is a popular neo-Nazi Telegram messenger channel with over 2,300 subscribers that focuses on home schooling children with an emphasis on Nazi principles. In the channel description it describes itself as: “A place for dissident homeschool parents. Find material here that is not riddled with Current Year programming.” The channel is run by two individuals who call themselves “Mr. Saxon” and “Mrs. Saxon.”
Lest we be accused of calling anyone we disagree with a “Nazi,” it is worth noting that Mr. and Mrs. Saxon are literally Nazis and are not shy to use the term in the Telegram channel and discussion. They frequently express a reverence for Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime. On the occasion of reaching their 1000th subscriber, Mrs.Saxon posted a photo of boys performing a Nazi salute and spelled out their mission: “It fills my heart with joy to know there is such a strong base of homeschoolers and homeschool-interested national socialists. Hail Victory.
The “Dissident Homeschool” began when Mrs. Saxon “really was having a rough time finding Nazi-approved school material for [her] homeschool children,” as she explained on a neo-Nazi podcast called Achtung! Amerikaner. She stated later in that podcast that home schooling is much better than public or private school because “…we have our children’s best interest at heart and nobody can do a better job than we can because it’s our child. We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi.” Some audio clips of these podcasts follow.
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Mrs. Saxon does most of the posting in the channel and chat, presenting lesson plans, tips on time management and other aspects related to home schooling and raising children, all heavily doused with Nazi stink. We think racists aren’t born; they’re made. Clearly, the Saxons recognize this, since they use every teaching moment they have to instill racism and Nazi ideology in their children.
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https://accollective.noblogs.org/post/2023/01/23/dissident-homeschool/
A Telegram group called Dissident Homeschool has been a resource for neo-Nazis who want to teach their kids hate at home. Now its administrators have been unmasked.
By
Christopher Mathias
Jan 29, 2023, 10:23 AM EST
|Updated Feb 1, 2023
The Dissident Homeschool channel on Telegram shares "Nazi-approved material for home schooling. ILLUSTRATION: DAMON DAHLEN/HUFFPOST; PHOTOS: GETTY
On Nov. 5, 2021, a married couple calling themselves “Mr. and Mrs. Saxon” appeared on the neo-Nazi podcast “Achtung Amerikaner” to plug a new project: a social media channel dedicated to helping American parents home-school their children.
“We are so deeply invested into making sure that that child becomes a wonderful Nazi,” Mrs. Saxon told the podcast’s host. “And by home-schooling, we’re going to get that done.”
The Saxons said they launched the “Dissident Homeschool” channel on Telegram after years of searching for and developing “Nazi-approved material” for their own home-schooled children — material they were eager to share.
The Dissident Homeschool channel — which now has nearly 2,500 subscribers — is replete with this material, including ready-made lesson plans authored by the Saxons on various subjects, like Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee (a “grand role model for young, white men”) and Martin Luther King Jr. (“the antithesis of our civilization and our people”).
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/home-school-nazis-telegram-dissident-saxon_n_63d596c4e4b01a43638e6a0a
