Just when you think UFC featherweight Bryce Mitchell’s bigotry can’t sink any lower, he goes off on a rant hailing Adolf Hitler as “a good guy” while proving he’s homophobic and justifying the Holocaust – which he denies even happened.
We shouldn’t be surprised that Mitchell believes this. After all, he’s a flat-earth conspiracy theorist, a full-blown MAGA guy and generally just an unhinged human being. But to hear him say it out loud on the first episode of his “ArkanSanity Podcast,” and with such passion and conviction, was still jarring.
What started as a response to the recent controversy over Elon Musk’s Nazi salute at a post-inauguration Donald Trump rally quickly went off the rails.
“Here’s what I say about (Musk) heiling Hitler, heiling the Nazis: I really don’t think that he was, because I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based upon my own research, not my public education indoctrination,” Mitchell said.
Right then and there you knew where this was going.
Mitchell continued, “I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy I’d go fishing with. He fought for his country. He wanted to purify it by kicking the greedy Jews out, that were destroying his country and turning them all into gays. They were gaying out the kids. They were queering out the women. They were queering out the dudes. Do you know where the first tranny surgery ever was? Happened to be in Germany before Hitler took over. You know the books that everybody makes fun of Hitler burning? You know what the books was? Queer books! Hitler burned queer books because Hitler didn’t want a bunch of queers destroying his nation. They can’t produce children.
“When he got on meth and he turned on Russia, I believe that’s when he kind of went full nutty. And I don’t think that he was just like the best dude ever. When I say I’d go fishing with him, I’m not saying he was the most trustworthy dude, or I’d love him or whatever. But at some point in Hitler’s life, I don’t think he was that bad of a guy. I really don’t. Now, was Hitler perfect? No, but he was fighting for his people, and he wanted a pure nation.”
Controversy over Elon Musk’s apparent Nazi salute (pictured above) at a post-inauguration Donald Trump rally served as the springboard for UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell’s antisemitic rant. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
When co-host Roli Delgado pushed back just a little bit by responding how awful it was for Hitler to “put a whole race (of people) into camps,” Mitchell cut him off and went into full Holocaust-denial mode.
“That’s what your public education will tell you, Roli, because you believe your public education, because you haven’t done your own research,” Mitchell responded. “When you realize there’s no possible way they could’ve burned and cremated 6 million bodies, you’re gonna realize that the Holocaust ain’t real.”
Surprisingly, Mitchell was not dressed in a white robe and hood when he said this.
Just another day in MMA, folks.
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