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.
Decide now if you want to continue saying the nazis were cool and good
What is wrong with your mental processing of the written word?
You mix it with saying they are Evil but that seems to also be what you adore with them? I don’t agree that they were effective or successful. The accomplishments you list is nazi propaganda that I disagree with because it is not true
What is it you think I “adore” about them? As a general rule, I despise any organization larger then about 1000 people. But such organizations exist. So my point was that just saying something like “they use propaganda, just like the nazis” doesn’t mean anything. All large governments use propoganda. Which is part of the reason I don’t like them. I am saying use better method to communicate why they are bad.