By David Futrelle
It’s hard to think of a more embarrassing memetic self-own than the ubiquity of the “hot white girl complaining about white genocide” memes on the alt-right internet.
You know the ones: the memes featuring gauzy, artfully photoshopped pics of young women — sometimes very young — that are festooned with weirdly turgid captions about the alleged dangers of race-mixing and demands that “the Beauty of the White Aryan Woman Must Not Perish from the Earth.”
Almost none of the women in these memes are actual white supremacists. Like Bizarro World versions of college admissions offices sneakily photoshopping black faces into all-white crowds to make their schools look more diverse than they really are, the white supremacist meme makers have decided to solve their own demographic problem — the fact that there are almost no women in the alt-right — by drafting unwitting stock photo and glamour models (and even a few unlucky selfie-posters) to be the spokeswomen for the Aryan race, or at least the most racist portion of it.
This isn’t a new phenomenon. I wrote about former KKK Grand Wizard and current dirty old man David Duke’s penchant for posting pics of young hotties forced to spout racist sentiments. And I’ve written as well about the Daily Stormer’s attempt to turn Taylor Swift into an unwilling white-supremacist mouthpiece — at least until the Nazi memers had their hearts broken when they discovered that she actually hates them.
But whenever I poke around in the world of alt-right memery I fund myself struck by how persistent these memes — despite the fact that they’re basically one huge self-own, revealing the alt-right to be filled to overflowing with lonely, horny dudes obsessed with women (and teenage girls) way too young for them.
Also, I’m struck again and again by just how inept these guys are at making memes, with many of the memes in this particular genre clotted with embarrassingly prolix disquisitions on the alleged perfection of the white race, sometimes in type so small they’re hard to read.
Here are some of the most cringeworthy of the “Aryan Babe” memes I’ve come across recently.
Yeah, pretty sure she’s not thinking any of that.
I like how the word “JEWS” is highlighted, in case you happened to miss the anti-Semitism at first glance.
Dude, maybe next time use a pic without a watermark?
Well, that’s not any better.
Love to feature small children in racist memes about rape!
And speaking of children:
Speaking of “FORCED,” neither of these kids asked to be included in racist memes, dudes!
You may have to read this next one twice. Even though it’s so badly designed that it’s hard to read even once.
Graphic design is my passion!
These Nazi memers seem to be equally passionate about really young, or at least young-looking women.
At this point you may want a shower … for your eyes.
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Which is not even an achievement…it’s merely a toss on the genetic die roll. Their parents made that “achievement.”
And if their parents had done their job, the junior fascist would probably NOT be a junior fascist.
Those guys at Mad magazine were geniuses in those days. They had a lot to work with back then. Sadly, their circulation is way down since they moved to Los Angeles.
They also have stiff competition now, every time the mainstream media reports on anything even tangentially connected to the tangerine tyrant.
If they had an understanding of human history or artistic talent, they probably WOULDN’T be white supremacists.
Absolutely right….those skunks objectify their women…the girls in the photos and paintings are mere fantasy figures.
Part of MAD’s current problem is that something that happens on Monday has been chewed to pulp and spewed out by social media by the following Friday, and by the time the issue mocking it hits the stands it’s a week out of date.
I call it the Scaramucci Effect.
Monday? Mad’s a monthly magazine or a quarterly.
By the time it comes out, The Onion and Twitter have knifed the topic to death.
Kiwiwriter – there’s a vivid image.
Thought you’d like it.
@Kiwiwriter:
How dare you impugn the noble skunk by association with such people?
Jenora, you’re right…while wild skunks can be dangerous, especially if they’re rabid, they ACTUALLY make good pets…they can have their stink bags removed, and then they are very charming little indoor pets. They get used to people, can be trained to use cat litter boxes, and eat a mix of salad and cat chow.
That’s more than I can say for junior fascists.
They all think that they are entitled to “Miss July,” as she describes herself in the centerfold information.
@Kiwiwriter:
I know someone who does have pet skunks. They’re clever little beasts; one of them figured out how to pull open the (admittedly old) refrigerator and get into the crisper drawer.
@Kiwiwriter:
I know someone who does have pet skunks. They’re clever little beasts; one of them figured out how to pull open the (admittedly old) refrigerator and get into the crisper drawer.
Sigh.
The only way I can tell none of these were made by my dad is that my dad was a professional graphic designer and would at least be able to present his incoherent racism and xenophobia in a well-designed format.
The only solace I have to that is that he wasn’t like that before his years of raging uncontrolled diabetes and recent stroke, so maybe its the brain damage talking. Which is more than I can say for these asswipes.