The Trump administration is using memes to turn massively into a big joke
“DHS is particularly trying to use Twitter [and Instagram] Joan Donovan, an assistant professor at the University of Boston and colleague. MEME Wars: The story of the online battles that are democracy in America“And the kind of propaganda they do is targeting, I say, young men in adolescence or twenty years old.”
When asked, the Assistant to the Foreign Minister DHS TRICIA MCLAGHLIN replied, “What is a stupid little story. Who are this” expert “?
“What is” cruel “, the media, as they continue to conduct a bidding for illegal violent criminal aliens, ignore victims of murder, rape, human trafficking and gang violence,” McLeflin added.
A White House spokesman Abigil Jackson said: “The White House’s social media account often highlights the disqualified criminal aliens that have assassinated American societies. Wired and their so -called experts, who provide additional information on what they are inappropriate, and in fact. Open Borders and Democrats City Policies.
(About 70 % of the arrests have no criminal record at all, and many convicted of only committing minor crimes such as traffic or immigration violations).
The mainstream of humanitarian humor is what Kurt Bradduk, an assistant professor of communications at the American University, which examines the persuasive effects of extremist propaganda. “I don’t think this messaging is bad because it means it, or because it is steep, or because it is incompatible with the President’s office, though I believe all this is true,” Bradwock says. “My biggest problem is that it makes the aggression normal. By normalizing aggression and normalizing others, immigrants or otherwise, not much of a real violence.”
“One of the things that was very distinctive about Trump’s commemoration campaigns in 2016 was the top of his Twitter account for most people as only chaos, because he had about six or seven different audiences,” says Donovan. “
This chaos style of messaging is now expanding to his government. Some of these posts collect tens of thousands of likes and re -transform other operating systems, such as the Boy Boy Telegram channels or large groups of pro -police Facebook. Some of them are even inspired by t -shirt designs.
Together, the DHS social feeds indicate an extreme right-wing ecosystem, which combine the language banning everyday patterns with 4chan humor, the whistles of the old white school and excessive Christian nationalism. And the new and glossy packaging is very good. “Short explosions of images and music are emotionally attractive in a way that the facts and data often do not do,” said Brian Levin, the founder of the Center for Hate and Extremism at the California State University, Sun Bernardino. “This acts as a familiar and comfortable emotional gift that revolves around the axis of protection, preservation, fear and tribalism.”
