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Attack and Dethrone God refers to a catchphrase attributed to the 1960s and 1970s radical left militant organization the Weather Underground Organization which gained meme popularity after being brought up during a Fox News segment to allude to the 2020 George Floyd protests.

Origin

On June 5th, 2020, Fox News^[1] featured a segment "The Dangerous Consequences of Disbanding Police" during which former FBI deputy counterterror director Terry Tuchie compared the 2020 George Floyd protests to the activities done by the radical left militant organization the Weather Underground Organization during the 1970s (segment shown below). During the segment, a summary list of the Weather Underground's strategy, based on its 1974 manifesto Prairie Fire, was shown, with the last goal on the list being "Attack and dethrone God." In the most well-known version of the Prairie Fire manifesto,^[2] the exact phrase does not appear.

They had a major goal, and that goal was to form a communist revolution. They call themselves communist-minded men and women, and in 1974 they authored a document called 'Prairie Fire,' and they outline their strategy and they outline the way they could get to that strategy and actually bring down the US government.

Spread

Following the segment, the phrase "Attack and dethrone God" received viral spread on Twitter, with users mocking Fox News and jokingly using the phrase. On June 5th, 2020, Twitter^[3] account @LCRWNews made the earliest viral post containing a screenshot of the Fox News broadcast which received over 18,200 retweets and 53,000 likes in three days (shown below, left).

Starting on that day, multiple memes captioned with the phrase or otherwise referencing it were posted by users on Twitter, Reddit and other social networks. For example, on June 6th, 2020, Twitter^[4] user @yungvidya posted a Final Fantasy meme which received over 6,600 retweets and 22,800 likes in two days (shown below).

On June 6th, 2020, between 2AM and 4AM the phrase was the top Twitter^[5] trend in the United States with over 30,800 tweets posted.

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