About

This Is The Future That Liberals Want refers to a series of Twitter jokes mocking a tweet by @polNewsNetwork1 which was intended to decry a picture of a woman in a niqab and a man in drag sitting next to each other on the New York City subway system as the terrible type of society the political left desires.

Origin

On March 1st, 2017, the @polNewsNetwork1 Twitter feed, whose name riffs on 4chan's notoriously far-right /pol/ board, tweeted^[1] a photograph of a woman wearing a niqab and a man in drag sitting next to each other on the subway with the caption "This is the future that liberals want" (shown below).

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Instantly, the tweet backfired. While @polNewsNetwork1 intended to show a world filled with Muslims and homosexuals, two historically conservative targets of derision and discrimination, many viewed interpreted the picture showing two people with starkly different political beliefs expressed via their dress coexisting peacefully (ex: shown below).

While the tweet spread around left-leaning Twitter as people made jokes confirming that good public transit and religious freedom is exactly what they want, people began making fun of it by writing "This is the future that liberals want" and adding their own pictures.

Both the reaction and memes inspired by @polNewsNetwork1's tweet were covered by Twitter Moments^[2] and Buzzfeed^[3] the afternoon of March 2nd.

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