We could sit here all day and try to imagine which specific individual came up with the exact idea. The end of the day, however, is that objectively, white supremacists use memes to gather people under their influence. It does not matter one bit whether it was an actual white supremacist, a troll, or whatever else that initially sparked this specific meme, whatâs more important is the knowledge that fascists DO make use of this tactic, and that itâs worthwhile to acknowledge that so that we can better curb their advances.
The scary truth is that memes, like all forms of art, have the capability to move people, and evil people are trying to do evil things with it. Whether fascists âadoptedâ it or not is irrelevant, whatâs important is that theyâre actually going through with it, and we should be spreading awareness of this subject so that people can more critically digest whatâs being fed to them. People should know whether or not memes are trying to warm them up to certain political beliefs, especially when those memes are wrapped up in so many layers of âironyâ that we usually just dismiss all memes as being aimless, spontaneous creations with literally nothing behind them â that just isnât true and people need to wake up to this.