At first glance, there may not appear to be anything unusual about the social media posts that are part of the ongoing recruitment drive by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

But to observers of the far-right, and to members of the far-right themselves, there is something else that is recognizable in the language of the posts.

On Aug 11, 2025, ICE posted an image on its socials of Uncle Sam at a crossroads. It included the tag line “Which way, American man?”

The post echoed a meme popular among right-wing influencers, who use the phrase “Which way, Western man?” to illustrate a choice between an image meant to represent liberal values and an image representing their own preferred option.

But the phrase itself is taken from the title of a 700-page antisemitic nonfiction book written by William Gayley Simpson and published by a neo-Nazi press in the late 1970s.

The book has long been a favourite among white supremacists.

  • blattrules@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    There’s a reason you don’t see the proud boys and ICE in the same place at the same time

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      32·
      2 months ago

      alot of hispanics and blacks are also in ice, guessing alot of people who have problems with being hired elsewhere, because they are SA-ers themselves, or Domestically violent people.

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
    201·
    2 months ago

    I’m skeptical of most white supremacists having the academic wherewithal to actually sit and read a 700-page book…

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    181·
    2 months ago

    ICE was given $8 billion US to hire thousands more agents.

    That is money well spent! I’m happy you US-americans really don’t waste cash on stupid things like healthcare, a social net, homelessness and all those vile things only dirty commies want.

    You shine like a glorious paragon for the rest of us unworthy 3rd-world-countries. Why can’t we all be like you.

    (Yes, I know you guys are not all brainless dookies. You have my condolences.)

    • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The murderer that shot Renee Good had an off duty picture wearing a shirt that could have put him in that boogaloo group; but I guess not everyone wearing a Hawaiian shirt is a boogaloo. There’s just a big coincidence there.