Green Kek Warrior

About

Green Kek Warrior refers to a masked man dressed in green and black holding a green shield with the Kekistan logo painted on the front. Photographs of the man at the far right-wing Patriot Prayer rally were the subject of mockery online, as people juxtaposed the image with comments the joked about the Nazi belief that the Aryan race was the "master race."

Origin

On August 4th, 2018, the right-wing group Patriot Prayer held a rally in Portland, Oregon. In addition to many right wing, white supremacist and neo-Nazi supporters joining the march, the rally was counterprotested by numerous anti-facist groups.^[1]

That morning, pictures of a bearded man in a green bandana, dressed in black and holding a green Kekistan sheild began appearing online. Twitter ^[2] user @itsmikebivins tweeted one of the earlieset images of the man. They added the caption, "About a dozen people associated with Patriot Prayer have arrived at Portland’s Waterfront Park. The guy w the bicycle and the purple hat is sporting a Joey Gibson campaign button.
#DefendPDX #AllOutPDX." The post (shown below) received more than 70 retweets and 200 likes in 24 hours.

Spread

Later that day, as more images of the man began appearing online, people compared the image to various alt-right and Nazi beliefs about aesthetics. Twitter^[3] user @classiclib3ral posted an image of the man standing upright next to an article from an Altright.com article on "superior aesthetics." The post (shown below, right) received more than 3,300 retweets and 13,000 likes in two days.

Twitter^[4] user @seb_uHu tweeted the picture, focusing on the man looking at him. The post (shown below, center) received more than 125 retweets and 725 likes in two days.

On August 5th, Twitter^[5] user Mikel_Jollet tweeted a picture of the man next to a picture of professional basketball player LeBron James with the caption "The man on the left believes he is genetically superior to the man on the right."
Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 13,000 retweets and 47,000 likes.

The following day, an anonymous 4chan ^[6] user posted an image of the protester on the "/tv/" message board. They commented on the picture "Who will play him in the eventual film version?" Another anonymous poster responded, "this shit is more embarrassing than chanology."

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