Online memes may seem frivolous, but they normalize hate – with potentially deadly results GlobeDebate
. Unsure of how to handle the cryptic document, early coverage of the attack failed to decipher the obvious call-outs to internet culture and contextualize them for what they were: the real-world manifestation of an online ecosystem that has slowly but surely been radicalizing white internet users since the early 2000s.
Easy to produce, easier to remix and easiest to replicate, they are a product of a participatory internet culture that developed through message boards and social media. Liberated from social consequence by online anonymity, many internet users have grown to take delight in transgression in constructing an anti-PC space where the extreme was mirthful, and bigotry could be hand-waved away as off-colour humour, or in the parlance, “for the lulz.
Holocaust memes are illustrative of a new approach to Holocaust denial. The Holocaust deniers of the 1980s and ’90s are dying off, taking their quixotic crusade for academic and public legitimacy with them. But the new deniers are not concerned with what the respectable public thinks.
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