On Irreverence, or, Why the Left Canโt Meme.
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Urban Dictionary,
a user named Dankulous Memeulon plumbs the wisdom of the ancient truism that the political left tends to generate inept, insipid internet memes. He describes this phenomenon as โan absolute fact: Leftists and their shills CANNOT meme, and any attempt by them to do so ends up as either cringe-worthy and biased propaganda, or [as] cancerously inaccurate.โ But Memeulon goes a step further and posits an explanation as to why this is true: โa possible cause [โฆ] is perhaps a leftistโs despicable attempts to stay politically correct, like all cucks, and thus they cannot, by their very nature, produce memes without fear of offending a minority who couldnโt care either way.โ
I must confess that as a bald, cis-gendered, white, monogamous, conservative, heterosexual, Christian, male, English professor in his early 40s, I am too square to claim any expertise in creating dope-ass memes. But I do study them, along with the
ongoing meme war that continues to intensify. Look no further than the
WallStreetBets crowd over at Reddit, who have now learned how to burn hedge fund managers by pumping
โmeme stocks.โ
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