An Actual Conservative's Guide To The Alt-Right: 8 Things You Need To Know
6. Kek, cucks, and meme-magic. The Church of Kek is a satirical religion that worships the ancient, androgynous Egyptian deity Kek: god of chaos, darkness, and “meme-magic,” which is a “metapolitical prayer and will to power,” according to one Alt-Right blogger, represented by Pepe the Frog, an Internet meme originating in Matt Furie’s web comic Boy’s Club. Confused? It actually makes more sense than you might think. Kek really is an ancient Egyptian deity of darkness represented as a frog-headed man, Alt-Right members are tech-savvy and active primarily on the Internet, and “kek” translates to “lol” in comment boards of the multiplayer videogame World of Warcraft, while Pepe the Frog epitomizes online meme humor.
Even Donald Trump has embraced this meme, retweeting an image of himself as Pepe.
If you’re still confused, you’ve inadvertently arrived at a common Alt-Right boast: the movement’s supporters often describe "playing 4-D chess" while traditional political activists play checkers, and they have a point. Cartoon frog meme gods are undeniably an esoteric way of effecting political change, as The Right Stuff describes in its blog post, “Esoteric Kekism Is A Religion Of Peace.” Even when slandering their political opponents, Alt-Righters don’t play by the rules. They replace traditional allegations of racism, sexist, this-ism, and that-ism by simply calling their opponents “cuckservatives” or “cucks.”
“Cuckold” is an ancient term for the husband of an adulteress, though in more recent times it can refer specifically to a genre of pornography in which typically a white man watches his wife have sex with a black man. There is disagreement among Alt-Right leaders over the racial connotations of “cuckservative.” Richard Spencer defines it in explicitly racist terms as “a white gentile conservative (or libertarian) who thinks he’s promoting his own interests but really isn’t,” whereas Vox Day insists the word has no racial connotation and merely means “coward.” But enough about cucks. Premises, leaders, tactics, and language aside, what is the Alt-Right’s political aim?
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6. Kek, cucks, and meme-magic. The Church of Kek is a satirical religion that worships the ancient, androgynous Egyptian deity Kek: god of chaos, darkness, and “meme-magic,” which is a “metapolitical prayer and will to power,” according to one Alt-Right blogger, represented by Pepe the Frog, an Internet meme originating in Matt Furie’s web comic Boy’s Club. Confused? It actually makes more sense than you might think. Kek really is an ancient Egyptian deity of darkness represented as a frog-headed man, Alt-Right members are tech-savvy and active primarily on the Internet, and “kek” translates to “lol” in comment boards of the multiplayer videogame World of Warcraft, while Pepe the Frog epitomizes online meme humor.
Even Donald Trump has embraced this meme, retweeting an image of himself as Pepe.
If you’re still confused, you’ve inadvertently arrived at a common Alt-Right boast: the movement’s supporters often describe "playing 4-D chess" while traditional political activists play checkers, and they have a point. Cartoon frog meme gods are undeniably an esoteric way of effecting political change, as The Right Stuff describes in its blog post, “Esoteric Kekism Is A Religion Of Peace.” Even when slandering their political opponents, Alt-Righters don’t play by the rules. They replace traditional allegations of racism, sexist, this-ism, and that-ism by simply calling their opponents “cuckservatives” or “cucks.”
“Cuckold” is an ancient term for the husband of an adulteress, though in more recent times it can refer specifically to a genre of pornography in which typically a white man watches his wife have sex with a black man. There is disagreement among Alt-Right leaders over the racial connotations of “cuckservative.” Richard Spencer defines it in explicitly racist terms as “a white gentile conservative (or libertarian) who thinks he’s promoting his own interests but really isn’t,” whereas Vox Day insists the word has no racial connotation and merely means “coward.” But enough about cucks. Premises, leaders, tactics, and language aside, what is the Alt-Right’s political aim?
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