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That caption was taken as a callback to a 20th century book that has the title, Which Way Western Man?
It is an anti-Semitic racist book that's largely popular within neo-Nazi circles, Tamara.
So, you know, there's one example.
Another notable example from DHS, again, was posted just last month.
This was an image with the caption, We'll Have Our Home Again.
And on Instagram, the post also included an excerpt from a song by that title.
That song and the group behind it are largely known and circulated within the white nationalist channels.
And I'll give you one final example.
This one from the Department of Labor, actually.
This was just last month.
They posted something that had the caption,
one homeland, one people, one heritage, remember who you are, American.
And that struck some as troublingly similar to Nazi Germany propaganda that translates to one people, one nation,
One leader.
So these are just a few examples, but you know, it's been a year of just seeing image after image a post after post that Are sort of eerily familiar to things that you know, I've seen that other researchers have seen in the world of white nationalism and
I mean, a lot of the imagery that is posted features sort of like nostalgic paintings, for example, sort of Norman, Rockwellian images of an America past, presumably what they're saying, an America lost, that overwhelmingly features white people.
To me, you know, it seems at this point quite clear that this is a part of the machinery that is pumping out public messaging from federal agencies.
And it's not actually even just the messaging.
You know, this is getting woven into federal policy, too.
You know, you'll remember we've talked on this podcast before about the