About

Hire More Women Guards is a snowclone and copypasta popular on Twitter meant to mock liberal and neoliberal priorities which suggest that rather than dismantle oppressive systems, society should make those systems more diverse. The joke spread from a tweet by Twitter user @historyinflicks.

Origin

On March 9th, 2017, Twitter user @historyinflicks^[1] tweeted, "Conservatives: Lets round up Muslims and put them in camps. Liberals: HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 WOMEN 👏 GUARDS 👏." The tweet gained over 8,400 retweets and 22,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

After the tweet was posted, it became prophetic as notable Democratic politicians began inadvertently echoing the point of the tweet. On March 16th, 2017, Democratic Senator Kamala Harris argued for maintaining hiring standards on US Border Patrol. This led to a user on /r/chapotraphouse connecting the speech to the tweet.^[2]

The phrase appeared often on /r/ChapoTrapHouse related to current events that seemed to follow the scenario presented by the tweet.^[3] Meanwhile, the phrase continued to appear on Twitter in relation to current events. For example, a tweet by @punksandwitch compared a tweet by @TheDemocrats to @historyinflicks' tweet (shown below, left). A tweet by @detachment_red parodying a tweet by Amber Tamblyn gained 16 retweets and 73 likes (shown below, right).

The tweet saw increased relevance on March 13th, 2018, when Gina Haspel was named the new CIA Director. While the White House celebrated the hire as the first woman to have the position, many noted that Haspel oversaw torture during the George W. Bush administration.^[4]

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