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Anthony Nicodemo in his classroom
Anthony Nicodemo was targeted by conservative influencers for hanging a "fascists fear teachers" poster.
A gay teacher is speaking out after conservative influencers doxxed him for hanging an anti-fascist poster in his classroom.
Anthony Nicodemo, a high school basketball coach and social studies teacher, became the target of an online harassment campaign last month when Corey DeAngelis and Chaya Raichik, who runs the account Libs of TikTok, shared a video he had posted and encouraged their followers to contact the school he works at.
“I can take the hits, I’m okay,” Nicodemo recently told LGBTQ Nation. “But I’m saddened, and I’m fearful for my people in our community who can’t, who don’t have the support of an administration or don’t have the ability to handle these kinds of attacks ... Which is what these people ultimately want. They want us to be quiet, and they want to make us disappear.”
The video shows the teacher hanging a sign with the slogan "fascists hate teachers" in his classroom. Nicodemo explained that "this is the perfect poster for a social studies classroom" because fascist regimes often censor academia.
“Throughout history, the first group of people that fascists have attacked are educators,” he said in the video. “People like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, some of the worst people in world history were fascists, and they attacked us educators first.”
DeAngelis and Raichik reposted Nicodemo's video, with DeAngelis sharing his social media accounts, school website, and the contact information for his principal and superintendent. When he made his Instagram profile private, DeAngelis directed his followers to leave comments on his Facebook page, which they did, calling the teacher “evil,” a “creep,” and a “pedo groomer.”
The comments haven't deterred Nicodemo, who had the courage and support to come out to his team over a decade ago in a 2013 interview with Outsports. He still has the support of his administration now, and has no intentions to leave.
“People who are dabbling in the LGBTQ+ community when it’s convenient for them financially, then coming out against LGBTQ educators… It drives me up the wall a little bit," he said. "These people need to be held accountable for this.”
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