That’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of any major beef between Fuentes and Kirk, at least not as extreme as with others like Shapiro. Going to look into it!

Maybe I’m missing something but I wouldn’t have immediately thought he was satirising a Pepe meme. More making a joke about the alt-right guys who use the Gopnik meme as weird pro-Putin solidarity. Not sure!

Thank you! So far, I’ve got nothing to say on mayonnaise!

Moreover, without an appreciation for the silly/serious nature of far-right memes and politics and the homes they provide, we will never truly grasp the appeal of engaging with such communities.

These online spaces are technically accessible but conceptually inaccessible; significant prior knowledge is required to be part of online humorous far-right communities, and I argue this serves a bordering function.

Through an analysis of the seemingly silly memes manufactured by the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement, I argue for understanding memes as central to home-building efforts by online far-right communities.

Simultaneously, far-right politics have the potential for serious harm, so these communities cannot be seen as exclusively silly.

The paper is explicit in arguing that we pay attention to far-right memes, but do not take them “too seriously” because far-right groups often take the opportunity to ridicule mainstream and leftist moral panics around memes.

In this paper, I challenge the distinction between silly and serious and argue for a space that recognizes the simultaneous existence of these concepts when it comes to researching far-right memes.

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“Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement” by @charlieprice.bsky.social

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