With the US election cycle over , the anonymous user of 4chan ’s /pol/ ( politically wrong ) board are antsy for something new to occupy their time . Last night that new target was confirmed as ISIS .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/819100751440084992
It began as the tweet above by bunk economist and men ’s rights militant Stefan Molyneux , whose website was described in the The Times of London as a “ rage . ” The tweet became the focal point ofa /pol/ threadyesterday wherein it was agreed the infamously regressive imageboard would take up Molyneux ’s challenge .
Though some were quick to point out to Molyneux the well - wear thin modus operandi of the site ( “ not your personal US Army ” ) enough were drill , amused , or new enough not to care .
At first glance , punching up at a globally contemn radical of fundamentalist terrorist is almost a atavist to the early Clarence Day of 4chan . The Church of Scientology and the Westboro Baptist Church were among the many object of the then - nascent and now for the most part inactive hacktivist corporate Anonymous which formed within 4chan ’s social rank . Anonymous , though never codifying any sorting of work philosophy , tended to poke at the powerful and the zealous . The clearest indication of how much the site has changed is this new campaign ’s rallying cry : “ deus vult . ”
Historically , the phrase “ deus vult ” ( translated as “ god bequeath it ” ) is associate with the first crusades . But a memorable line in the 2012 video game Crusader king II let it to becomea meme of sorts .
There ’s nothing haywire with trolling the great unwashed who regularly prosecute in beheadings . But doing so while invoking the crusades , follow the word of a cultist changeling , and referring to practitioners of Islam as “ mudslimes ” is unmortgaged evidence that there ’s more at work ideologically than getting a rise out of the people most worth of it . What was once a fairly dumb joke from a pocket-sized video secret plan is now being used to encapsulate much of the anti - Muslim opinion found among Trump supporters on4chan ’s /pol / andthe_donald on Reddit . In the year of our lord 2017 , deus vult has derive full roundabout as the all unironic catch phrase of a burgeoning internet holy war .
How will this anti - Muslim jihad manifest ? With more than one “ prescribed ” playbook it ’s hard to say . Deus vult thread on /pol/ have put forward a program to turn ISIS ’s homophobia against itself , trending # ISISgay in the process . Meanwhile , a deus vult Discord chat for this new campaign was created and instead plans to trend # anklesforallah so as to “ flush out … ISIS social media accounts . ” presently , neither is particularly pop on Twitter , and the plans themselves are incoherent at considerably .
Even if /pol/ is able-bodied to agree on some sort of secret plan programme , Molyneux ’s hypothesis that the site could “ take down ISIS ” in less than seven days is patently ridiculous — a self - aggrandizing ploy to further solidify Islamophobia on the corners of the cyberspace his fan club occupies . Come next Wednesday , lets see how what sort of mental gymnastic exercise are required to explain that terrorism ca n’t be stopped with a fucking hashtag .
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