"The book helped radicalize an entire generation of white supremacists in the US, with its vicious antisemitism, opposition to all forms of immigration and open praise for Hitler. The purpose of the book, wrote Simpson, was to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the white man's world, operating freely across every nation's frontiers and engaged in a ruthless war for the destruction of them all."
"In recent decades, Which way, western man? has become a popular meme but only on the far-right fringes of the internet. Until, that is, the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Last August, the X account of Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted an ICE recruitment poster featuring an Uncle Sam figure holding a law and order sign while standing by a crossroads post featuring arrows reading invasion and cultural decline."
"Earlier this month, the official White House Twitter account posted a cartoon of Greenlandic huskies with Danish flags on their sleds facing a choice between the White House on one side and China's Great Wall and Russia's Red Square on the other. The White House's caption? Which way, Greenland man? It should be one of the biggest stories in the United States, if not the world."
Which way, western man? was a racist 1978 tract by William Gayley Simpson that radicalized a generation of white supremacists through antisemitism, opposition to immigration, and praise for Hitler. The tract portrayed organized Jewry as a transnational power intent on destroying the white world. The phrase migrated into far-right internet culture and was recently repurposed by official U.S. accounts: a DHS/ICE poster used the language and the White House posted a Greenland-themed image captioned similarly. Multiple media investigations documented repeated posting of Nazi imagery, dehumanizing migrant language, and extremist memes on official accounts, indicating normalization of white supremacist motifs within government messaging.
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