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This Is The Future That Liberals Want

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Updated Dec 01, 2020 at 10:15AM EST by andcallmeshirley.

Added Mar 02, 2017 at 01:07PM EST by Adam.

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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).


/pol/ News Network NewsNetwork1 Follow This is the future that liberals want.

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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).


Technical!yRon @TechnicallyRon Follow @polNewsNetwork1 People wearing what they want to? Feeling comfortable in public? Going outside without fear? AWESOME LET'S DO IT EETS LIKES 262 2,881 7:04 PM -1 Mar 2017 わ8 2622.9K

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.


Patrick Monahan @pattymo Follow This is the future that liberals want. Soon suxet heart t uhen will the baby come mom

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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Gabriella Paiella @GMPaiella Following This is the future that liberals want. actioncookbook @actioncookbook Follow this is the future liberals want RETWEETSL 84 358 Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff Follow This is the future that liberals want. RETWEETSL 357 1,477 Sam Kriss Follow @sam_kriss This is the future that liberals want Follow Matt Brown MattSBN this is the future that liberals want RETWEETSL LIKES TALK 42 145 12:22 PM-2 Mar 2017 3 42 Elize Morgan @elizemorgan et Follow 、 This is the future liberals want. GIF

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