This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. The posts look like memes, utilizing dramatic AI-generated art, general patriotic slogans, and cinematic language about “defending the homeland” and shaping America’s future.
But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.
Many of these phrases, images, and attached media aren’t just regular social media content. They repurpose language, symbolism, and cultural references with direct connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. It’s content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.
There has been not one, but two posts from our government institutions that reuse a phrase ripped straight from William Gayley Simpson’s book Which Way Western Man?. It was published and promoted by the National Alliance—considered one of the “best organized” neo-Nazi groups in the United States. The book is antisemitic, racist, and explicitly states that Adolf Hitler was right.
I don’t know how to stop it either, because I don’t think we can (short of violent rebellion).
Unfortunately, everyone’s just sitting around waiting for the midterms like it’s some panacea. I don’t think they understand that the damages done already will take at least 40+ years to reverse and that there’s a very, very high likelihood the midterms don’t really happen.
can stop if we don’t effectively create wealth. If our economy slowed to a crawl because maybe all our workers were not the most efficient. Some people won’t do violence but we can all bartelby the scrivner it up.
I suppose I could get behind the concept of that working.
I don’t think I believe for a second enough people can do it, because the majority of us are stuck in the check to check cycle.
im not saying quit. im not saying show up. but I am saying don’t worry about getting fired and take your time. They say time is money and that is very much what they have stolen from us. We have been robbed of using all the nice formal niceties and taking our time and talking with customers and coworkers in an unhurried way.