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The Trump Administration Is Using Memes to Turn Mass Deportation Into One Big Joke
Memes shared by the White House, DHS, and ICE have used catchy TikTok tunes to normalize mass deportation and Christian nationalist narratives. Experts say that’s the point.
WIRED and their so-called ‘experts, that they refused to provide additional information on, should cover what’s actually cruel—criminal illegal aliens murdering, raping, and assaulting innocent American citizens as a direct result of Joe Biden’s open border and Democrat sanctuary city policies. “Short bursts of imagery and music appeal emotionally in ways that facts and data often don’t,” says Brian Levin, the founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. "The key here is not to view these as individual examples of mostly wholesome ‘nostalgic’ messaging but as an ideologically connective bridge,” Levin says, “where renewed invocations of whiteness, Christianity, and family preservation links the horrendous border practices of today to brutal late-19th-century westward expansion and racially restrictive immigration laws.”
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