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ABSTRACT: In the past decade, people associated with what is known as the alt-right have employed a strategy similar to that of progressive, antiracist satirists to advance a decidedly white supremacist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, and deadly serious agenda. As this article documents, the alt-right weaponizes irony to attract and radicalize potential supporters, challenge progressive ideologies and institutions, redpill normies, and create a toxic counterpublic. Discussing examples of satiric irony generated by the extreme right alongside those produced by the (often mainstream) left, this article pairs two satirical memes, two activists use of irony, two ambiguously satirical tweets, and two recent controversies pertaining to racism and satire so as to illustrate how people with very different political commitments employ a similar style with potent effects. Of particular significance are reverse racism discourses, including white genocide, and the increasingly complicated r ....
iStock/Wikimedia Commons In the fall of 1994, readers of the New York Times woke to the following headline: “Torture by Army Peacekeepers in Somalia Shocks Canada.” The photographs of the incident, released in Canada that November and published in America by the Washington Post, show Canadian soldiers kneeling beside Shidane Arone, a bleeding Somali teenager who, before dying, shouted “Canada” three times. Two Canadian soldiers Kyle Brown and Clayton Matchee were eventually charged in Arone’s torture and murder. Their home unit, the Canadian Airborne Regiment, awash with the iconography of white supremacy, was disbanded. In January 1995, the Washington Post reported on the use of “Confederate paraphernalia” alongside hazing rituals for Black soldiers and the frequent and open use of the n-word among soldiers at home and abroad. Progressive was not a label associated with Canada’s military. ....