Alternative title - Italians aren't hated enough :anti-italian-action: .
Every Brandy Melville store in the US is owned by a different independent company. All 34 are named a variation of Bastiat, after the libertarian economist Frédéric Bastiat. (Marsan is an ardent libertarian, naming a sub-brand John Galt after the character from "Atlas Shrugged," personal copies of which he displayed in early stores.) Business filings list Marsan as the CEO or director for each Bastiat company and the president of Bastiat USA.
A group text with Marsan and other top executives contained racist, sexist, and antisemitic jokes, including one photo in which, a former business partner says, Marsan edited his face on Hitler's body.
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Holocaust and Nazi references appeared frequently. Hitler was mentioned 24 times in the more than 150 screenshots Insider viewed.
One image featured Hitler with the text "Premio Nobel per la brace," or "Nobel Prize for barbecue." Another screenshot showed an image of Hitler with the text "Happy New Year My [N-word]." Yet another included an edited image of a severely emaciated woman wearing underwear and a sash reading "Miss Auschwitz 1943."
