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“So, guys. Here’s the plan:
Make more of the White Student
Union pages on Facebook for
various universities. You don’t
have to go there. Make one for
Dartmouth, Princeton, etc.”
often organize and initiate them, these
projects rely on the velocity and strength
of legions of anonymous users disseminating
memes and using hashtags simultaneously.
Perceived humor, often of the
darkest variety, is what allows them to
be perpetuated so effectively. Reactions
of outrage by the targeted demographics
only add fuel to the fire.
“My inclination is that ‘gas the kikes’
is ridiculous enough that it will immediately
be recognized as humor — if dark
humor — by any normal person who
hears it, and that the media repeating
this phrase would desensitize the public
to Holocaust humor,” Anglin wrote.
Sowing Doubt
The culture jamming tactics co-opted by
Anglin present a Catch-22 for the mainstream
media. Writing about their campaigns
generates precisely the publicity
and desensitization that bad actors with
nothing to lose, like Anglin, are after. His
hypothesis is that regular viewers exposed
to a tide of seemingly hyperbolic images
will eventually begin to laugh, even if
reluctantly, creating a new status quo for
what passes as acceptable content across
the mainstream Internet and ostensibly
redefining the rules of the debate.
“They’re actually doing what the conservative-,
mainstream-, corporate- or
ideologue-funded right, that is to say the
GOP and its fellow travellers, have been
doing for decades, which is simply sowing
the seeds of doubt in the media narrative,”
Dery explained. “In other words,
you don’t have to win the climate change
debate, you don’t have to win the fracking
debate, you don’t have to win the
debate on rape in the military, if you just
create the illusion that there’s another
side to this.”
As Angelo John Gage, the former congressional
candidate for AFP, pointed out
during the #BoycottStarWarsVII campaign,
“no one cares about a black dude
having the lead in #BoycottStarWarsVII,
the whole point was to seed the meme
#whitegenocide & it worked lol.”
Indeed, Anglin, Gage and their
legions of followers are simply making
a scene to force an audience, wittingly
or not, to consider an extreme political
position. Given the anonymity of those
exposed to their handiwork, it’s difficult
to measure their efficacy outside
of the headlines they have managed
to generate.
But Dery has doubts about the prowess
of ringleaders like Gage and Anglin.
“I wouldn’t exalt [Anglin’s] perspicacity
and penetration of these issues too much.
He isn’t framing it consciously in terms
of its effects. He’s loaded his blunderbuss
up with every bent nail and twisted screw
in his drawer and is kind of firing away at
the broadside of the barn culturally, but
there’s no nuance to the analysis.”
Anglin did not respond to an E-mail
from the Intelligence Report requesting
comment.
The existence of these campaigns,
nuanced or otherwise, as well as the
energy expended by the perpetrators,
serves as one more example of the
Internet as the new battleground for
organized racism. Whether covertly
derailing social justice campaigns or
attacking perceived hypocrisy in the
mainstream through overt memes, the
battle for hearts and minds is being
fought online.
What used to exclusively dwell in the
darkest corners of the web has now crept
into the mainstream. Understanding the
tactics being deployed is essential in
countering these racist campaigns, and
a trained eye is the only feasible way to
flush these subversions out of the mainstream
and back to the swamps in which
they bred. ▲
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