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(this is part of a series, originally by @[email protected], linked together there: https://rant.li/kamikadse161/online-far-right)

Content Warning for all kinds of fascist symbols, and fascist bigotry like explicit antisemitism, racism, misogyny, glorification of violence and so on in the provided examples

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Which brings us to the latest attempt at disingenuously ironic symbol theft by radical alt-right white supremacists, fresh out of the 4chan oven.

Meet the “Gender Star.”

Where did the “Gender Star” meme come from?

Well, first you have to remember that alt-right white supremacists consider capital-N Nazis to be tech illiterate, boorish boomers.

The alt-right hates the Jews, the left, and the capital-N Nazis.

The “gender star” trolls all three.

So where did this come from?

Well, today in 4chan, someone logged on to post a Star of David version of the Nazi flag and say, “we need to strategize a meme campaign to expose the REAL Nazis who are trying to eliminate the whites.”

See, on the internal 4chan board level, the idea is to create an epic troll of the the capital-N Nazis, by claiming that actually, the party and symbols they hold so dear are actually the product of the people they hate most: the Jews.

These capital-N Nazis fell for it almost immediately. Meanwhile, other alt-right white supremacists piled on to the troll.

Soon, in a new thread, the suggested meme emerges, complete with an an antifa stamp to lend an air of authenticity.

There's some workshopping.

The capital-N Nazis continue to be mad, so the alt-right white supremacists are already accomplishing their internal board troll goal.

The original poster ponders doing a less obvious version to take to Twitter.

How epic would it be for alt-right white supremacists to pose as antifa and own the libs by turning ✡ into the next👌, right?

On its surface, it's a joke.

Really, though, it's an alt-right white supremacist project through and through, with serious political objectives.

Objective 1: Weaken external political opponents.

By posing as antifascist researchers, distributing the meme under that guise, and revealing the hoax, they undermine the credibility of real antifascist researchers (and those who amplify that research)

Objective 2: Confuse & anger internal opponents.

Alt-right white supremacists consider capital-N Nazis threats to the mainstreaming of white supremacy.

They also know they aren't the brightest crayons in the box.

They want Nazis confused and arguing internally about this meme.

Objective 3: inflict cultural violence on Jewish people.

This is the cruelest part of this meme.

Its core goal is to give white supremacists ownership of the primary sacred symbol of Judaism.

Its goal is to make the symbol of Jewish identity unusable, make Jews invisible.

Make no mistake: the goal of this attempt at theft is nothing less than a forray into visual cultural genocide.

It is an attempt to enact a very real kind of erasure of Jewishness.

That's what the original poster means when he says, “this will be a big one.”

And radical alt-right white supremacists like the Proud Boys are all too eager to implement to make this “big one” happen.

All the while disingenuously maintaining their pretense of irony.

All the while keeping their plausible deniability intact.

Because that's the insidious way that alt-right white supremacy tries to have its nazi cake and eat it, too.

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