Matthew Colligan is an American online personality who posted

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memes under the handle Millennial Matt alongside

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influencer Baked Alaska. His identity was revealed through his participation in the 2017

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. One of Colligan's repeated memes is the phrase " Hitler did nothing wrong", which he has said in radio, tweets, and videos.

Unite the Right rally attendance and doxing

Colligan participated in the torchlight tiki rally at the

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in Charlottesville. Shortly following the rally, one of Colligan's former Boston neighbors and friends noticed Colligan in the evening's most infamous photograph. His identity was later verified through social network posts, including a cropped driver's license photograph that contained a photo appearing to be Colligan along with his correct birthday. Following Colligan's doxxing, Colligan initially responded with jabs, such as posting his "real" home address as what was in fact a Jewish

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in Boston. Shortly thereafter, Colligan deleted his Twitter account. On Friday, August 11, 2017, the day of the tiki rally, Colligan and Baked Alaska were ejected by a black

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driver who said they had said racist things, calling the country "white America" and making her feel unsafe. In September 2017, Colligan claimed to have moved to Japan, but later claimed to have been living in Mexico.

Social media

Colligan spent several years leading up to the

posting white nationalist advocacy and neo-Nazi slogans such as "Hitler did nothing wrong". He was friends with and often interacted online with Baked Alaska. During one 52-minute video, Colligan questioned the history of

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, suggesting that his viewers search for " revisionist histories" instead. Following Unite the Right, Colligan joined '' The Gateway Pundit''s Lucian Wintrich and right-wing activist Ali Alexander on the ''Pundit's'' podcast. During this podcast, the group discussed Unite the Right, Richard Spencer, and the distinction between the New Right and the alt-right. During the show, Colligan described white nationalist Richard B. Spencer as a "good guy", showed Nazi flags and "Hitler did nothing wrong" memes, and argued that he himself was not a member of the alt-right. Akbar described Colligan as "a little bit racist" but "so funny" in a now-deleted

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video promoting the dialogue.

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, a far-right podcaster and figurehead of the Groypers, listed Colligan as having a

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account affiliated with "America First", a TikTok-based movement described as white nationalist by ''

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''. TikTok suspended Colligan's account in May 2020 during a crackdown on

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Post-Charlottesville events

In June 2020, Colligan joined two other groypers, leader

and far-right student organizer Jaden McNeil, at a George Floyd protest in

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. After the group asked two black men to take a picture with them while holding a sign labeled 'I can't read', they escalated tensions. One demonstrator tried to take the sign away, and another removed Colligan's glasses, at which point Colligan called the police saying he had been "physically assaulted." Fuentes told one demonstrator the police would "kneel on that guy's neck for taking my friend glasses", referencing the manner in which

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was murdered. Following the event, several protesters were harassed online, leading them to delete social media accounts. Indian-American scientist and conspiracy theorist Shiva Ayyadurai appeared with Colligan on a livestream during his 2018 Massachusetts election campaign against

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. Colligan requested that Ayyadurai bless a small statue of the

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, the green frog that came to prominence as a symbol of the alt-right during the

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. Ayyadurai obliged and described Colligan as "one of our greatest supporters".

References

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