After the Arizona Mirror asked about the meme, it was swiftly deleted from social media. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Republican Congressman Paul Gosar posted — and later deleted — a meme rooted in violent and racist online culture that was praised by neo-Nazis and white nationalists. Gosar’s social media postings on Twitter and Gab featured a picture of the Prescott Republican with a red filter that is part of the meme movement known as “DarkMAGA,” an aesthetic that evokes a dystopian view of the world and pushes for former President Donald Trump and other conservatives to be more violent and hardlined with their rhetoric. “Remember when our government sent planes to Afghanistan and brought over 100,000 Afghans in less than a week?” Gosar wrote. “We have in the range of up to 40 million illegal aliens in our country. They can be deported by planes, trains and buses. We could easily deport 6 million each year.” Many of the people who quote tweeted Gosar’s original tweet included the hashtag #DarkMAGA and also pointed out and celebrated the 6 million number which is approximately the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. “6 million is possible in this story, unlike that other one,” one user wrote, quoting Gosar’s tweet. Others quote-tweeted Gosar’s post and used antisemitic language popular among neo-Nazis and white nationalists. On Gosar’s Gab post, similar comments were also seen. “U want a Holocaust each year!!??” one Gab user wrote while posting an antisemitc picture.
via azmirror: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Paul Gosar tweeted a meme used by neo-Nazis