And a transgender bogie-man to boot! Just because a few 4Chan assholes have an active imagination to connect a frog head meme to an ancient Egyptian deity doesn't make it so. If you read the entire SLPC article you have linked to we find this meme of Kek has an origin in the WoW game and held, for the Alt-Right, entertainment value. The whole idea looks like a form of trolling device used to mock Democrats and Liberals who would actually think these people take the meaning (and worship of Kek) seriously. From the SPLC article:
The name, usage, and ultimately the ideas around it originated in gaming culture, particularly on chat boards devoted to the World of Warcraft online computer games, according to Know Your Meme. In those games, participants can chat only with members of their own faction in the “war” (either Alliance or Horde fighters), while opposing players’ chats are rendered in a cryptic form based on Korean; thus, the common chat phrase “LOL” (laugh out loud) was read by opposing players as “KEK.” The phrase caught on as a variation on “LOL” in game chat rooms, as well as at open forums dedicated to gaming, animation and popular culture, such as 4chan and Reddit — also dens of the Alt-Right, where the Pepe the Frog meme shares its origins, and similarly hijacked as a symbol of white nationalism.
Besides its entertainment value, the “religion” is mainly useful to the Alt-Right as a trolling device for making fun of liberals and “political correctness.”
Certainly, if any “normies” were to make the mistake of taking their “religion” seriously and suggesting that their “deity” was something they actually worshipped, they would receive the usual mocking treatment reserved for anyone foolish enough to take their words at face value.
I am afraid that tying the mythological White Magick vs. Black Magick Ceremonial Wars is just the type of discussion that would play into their hands. The keyword to understanding what the Alt-Right is doing here is trolling (for a reaction) and they are doing so with their so-called 'Meme Magic'. To think that the entire Trump administration is based on this is as juvenile as the trolling itself. I'll grant you that 45 does thrive in chaos and is as juvenile, but I seriously doubt he knows what Kek is, let alone worship anything but himself.
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