Frankly, we'd be more secure and prosperous if we screened out anyone lacking the genes to tolerate lactose into adulthood. #MilkTwitter pic.twitter.com/mg7RgWyLi2
— ? Memes for Tay (@MemesForTay) February 12, 2017
As example of this belief, Mic points to a 4chan thread titled "Enter the Milk Zone," in which a poster repurposes graphs of global "lactose hotspots" from a study titled "Lactose tolerance in a Slavic population." Additionally, the thread is filled with racist diatribes about industrial schemes to purposefully taint the purity of milk as well as poems relating to milk, including one that reads: "Roses are red, Barack is half-black, if you can't drink milk, you have to go back."When someone in the thread chimes in claiming to be an African-American man who is not lactose intolerant, a user responds by saying "American Negroids are part White."READ MORE: Turns Out, Building a Sausage Factory on a Former Nazi Labor Camp Isn't the Best Idea
It's not clear whether or not this is the case, but members of the alt-right community like the website Age Of Shitlords have ridiculed the assertion, claiming that the media has simply fallen for classic 4chan trolling. That said, you can pretty easily find threads online asserting that veganism is some sort of shadowy Jewish attempt to take over the world.One poster in a thread from 2014—long before LaBeouf's Museum of the Moving Image project ever took place—wrote the following: "Veganism is a fucking jewish agenda! The kikes invented it long ago and now they use it to push their rotten marxist ideology and to victimize the gentile people."We must secure an existence for our people and whole milk for white children. #milktwitter pic.twitter.com/6kUpn5eMXz
— Immer ? (@DadbodyImmer) February 13, 2017
Since the debacle at the Museum of the Moving Image, White Nationalist provocateurs like Richard Spencer have ditched Pepe the Frog emojis in their Twitter handles in favor of glasses of milk. Spencer's Twitter profile now states "I'm very tolerant… lactose tolerant!" while Milo Yiannopoulos' old manager, Tim Treadstone, has also adopted the milk glass emoji and added "#MilkTwitter" to his bio.I drew a meme for you goys give me kekels #milktwitter #DrinkofEmporers #kekistan #1 pic.twitter.com/OwWFmlk4tJ
— Neil Kekson Knt MP (@markandfriendz) February 15, 2017
The thing is, the 2011 photo in question was, in fact, nothing more than one part of a tongue-in-cheek art project. The image in question was created as part of photographer and graphic designer Dany Peschl's "Disturbation" photo series. Peschl says that the image was a comment on the uncertainty of what people do behind closed doors: "The photos capture different people during various intimate situations in a "caught in the act way." Peschl also told Lamono Magazine, "Maybe it sounds unbelievable, but also Nazi [sic] can love warm cow's milk, they don't even require it from racially pure Tyrol pastures."#milktwitter pic.twitter.com/MLDHP6vqNa
— Lucky Ace (@gamblerjoe2) February 12, 2017
No matter how these milk-related images and events originated—and even if classic internet trolls were spreading them simply because that's what they do—it seems that both White Nationalists and the alt-right are now co-opting that most milquetoast of beverages and making it a symbol of hatred.Is nothing sacred? You may never look at a glass of two-percent the same way again.Am I the only "Nazi" on Twitter Aryan enough to produce my own raw, whole milk for feeding the next gen of meme warriors? #MilkTwitter pic.twitter.com/EnoZ8B96My
— Wife With A Purpose (@apurposefulwife) February 21, 2017