Anti-migrant rhetoric has reached the point of a congressman citing a far-right meme about Augusto Pinochet\u2019s death-flights<\/p>\n
Three years ago, the Intercept published<\/a> an illuminating article about the rise of the \u201cHoppean snake\u201d among far-right extremists, a meme which the Intercept labelled especially \u201cdisturbing for its frightening historical reference\u201d. For the uninitiated, the Hoppean Snake in its various forms usually depicts a serpent wearing the military hat of the American-backed Chilean dictator Gen Augusto Pinochet in the foreground while figures are dropping out of helicopters to their death in the background.<\/p>\n The meme specifically refers to Pinochet\u2019s known strategy of kidnapping, torturing, killing, and \u2013 here\u2019s the point \u2013 throwing his political opponents out of helicopters<\/a> and into the ocean to dispose of them. The Intercept noted that many groups and individuals on the far right, such as the \u201cBoogaloo Bois, Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Oath Keepers, armed Trumpists, and the like wear T-shirts that offer \u2018free helicopter rides\u2019.\u201d and when they do so, \u201cthey are referencing a program of extermination.\u201d<\/p>\n Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anti-migrant rhetoric has reached the point of a congressman citing a far-right meme about Augusto Pinochet\u2019s death-flights Three years ago, the Intercept published an illuminating article about the rise of the \u201cHoppean snake\u201d among far-right extremists, a meme which the Intercept labelled especially \u201cdisturbing for its frightening historical reference\u201d. For the uninitiated, the Hoppean Snake … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}