{"id":175986,"date":"2020-10-05T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/05\/a-most-fabulous-meme\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:17:00","slug":"a-most-fabulous-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/05\/a-most-fabulous-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Fabulous Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We’re Proud and we’re Boys and Nazi cowards can fuck right the fuck off. #ProudBoys<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/pOTpcJe7WZ<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Sam J. Miller (@sentencebender) October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here is me and my husband on our wedding day …. and a pic of our two adopted sons #ProudBoys<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/mloFIhcvwF<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Ants (@helloitsants) October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 #ProudBoys<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rEFL7xIqXu<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Canadian Forces in \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@CAFinUS) October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fabulous!!!<\/i><\/div>\n

The right-wing terrorists gang known as the “Proud Boys” are being mercilessly memed by LGBTQ people all over the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is f%#$ing beautiful, and even an official Canadian military Twitter account joined in:<\/p>\n

If you search for “Proud Boys” on Twitter, you won’t get what you’re expecting, and you will absolutely be delighted.<\/p>\n

After Donald Trump’s reference<\/a> to the extremist group at the first presidential debate, people have taken over the #ProudBoys hashtag with photos of gay men celebrating their lives and their love.<\/p>\n

The goal of the movement is to take back the hashtag from the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s organization with a history of violence. Founded by Gavin McInnes, the group describes itself as “western chauvinists,” and the FBI considers the group to be an extremist organization with ties to white supremacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked to condemn white supremacists during the first presidential debate, Trump told the Proud Boys<\/a> to “stand back and stand by.” The statement appears to have galvanized the group and bolstered their following<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given the group’s penchant for a certain brand of white masculinity, the move to use the tag with images of gay men is not just a reclamation, but a cheeky provocation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The exact source of this meme is unclear, but it may have started with a George Takei tweet.<\/p>\n

Oh, My!!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re Proud and we’re Boys and Nazi cowards can fuck right the fuck off. #ProudBoys pic.twitter.com\/pOTpcJe7WZ \u2014 Sam J. Miller (@sentencebender) October 4, 2020 Here is me and my husband on our wedding day …. and a pic of our two adopted sons #ProudBoys pic.twitter.com\/mloFIhcvwF \u2014 Ants (@helloitsants) October 4, 2020 \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 #ProudBoys pic.twitter.com\/rEFL7xIqXu \u2014 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,386,650,436,626,373],"class_list":["post-175986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-humor","tag-irony","tag-lgbtq","tag-memes","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}