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Hire More Women Guards

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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).


maple cocaine @historyinflicks Following KS Conservatives: Lets round up Muslims and put them in camps Liberals: HIREMORE WOMEN GUARDS 3:01 AM-9 Mar 2017


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]


Kamala Harris @SenKamalaHarris Follow U.S. Border Patrol announced today they won't lower hiring standards after I pressed them on it. Keep speaking up. Oversight matters. SEN. HARRIS 1:00 15.5K views

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).


Red Kahina's Commie Y.. Follow @punksandwitch This is basically @historyinflicks 's hire more women guards tweet The Democrats@TheDemocrats Let's elect: Black women LGBT women 红色娘子军. @detachment _red Follow hiremore Women guards Amber Tamblyn Φ @ambertamblyn Just like any male politician with her leverage would've. Front runner men have always colluded with their parties. But now we're outraged? twitter.com/n_rode/status/·.. 9:34 PM-2 Nov 2017

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]


nuanced opinion guy @charles kinbote Following RIP @historyinflicks his hire more women guards tweet came true 1:05 AM-13 Mar 2018 Worlds Fastest SlothTA @Speediest_Sloth Follow i love being a liberal and saying s--- like these two things are the same to me' or 'hire more women as prison guards 2:54 PM-12 Mar 2018

Various Examples


Alex [Null Holiday Input] @agraybee Follow Let's get this out of the way now: no, there are no feminists applauding a female torturer as head of the CIA, but l still expect an onslaught of "hire more women guards" jokes 10:55 AM-13 Mar 2018 Cillian @Bittathat Follow MORE FEMALE & TORTURERS Washington Post@washingtonpost Pompeo will replace Tillerson at the State Department, and Gina Hapsel- the deputy director at the CIAwill succeed him at the CIA, becoming the first woman to run the spy agency, if confirmed. w apo.st/2HrownV Show this thread Translate from French 10:31 AM-13 Mar 2018 , is a nazi symp. @jack, the CEO of @quiggy Follow hire morewo women torturers Adam H. Johnson@adamjohnsonNYC ai Dakwar urnett Burnett eafemale @CAc congratulations guys we did it ennan: "absolutely polcy She oversa time. It's just--it's Zubaydah and Ab and later took part ideotapes docu nterrogations at a Likes ㅇ Thailand 10:23 AM-13 Mar 2018 1 Like Abby Spice, @clapifyoulikeme Mama Follow Hey just a reminder that since we're not actually going to abolish prisons anytime soon, it would in fact be GREAT to hire more women guards, because it's really f------ gross that we have so many male guards in women's prisons and leads to kind of a lot of r---! 6:49 PM-23 Feb 2018 Aaron @AaronWaxing Follow Me, a moron: "Capital exploits, abuses, and manipulates the proletariat in differing ways along gendered and racialized lines, and uses those divisions to further secure its power." You, extremely intelligent: "This is ‘hire morewomenguards me." 1:12 AM-21 Feb 2018 Jack Feerick @JackFeerick Follow Jesus, this is literally the "H REMORE WOMEN DETENTION CAMP GUARDS" tweet もInsatiable Gun Taker') @crush.ngbort will they ever break that glass ceiling Just noticing that the woman got fired an the men didn't. 2:54 PM -14 Feb 2018

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External References

[1] Twitter – historyinflicks

[2] /r/chapotraphouse – Hire More Women Guards

[3] /r/chapotraphouse hire more women guards search

[4] New York Times – Gina Haspel, C.I.A. Deputy Director, Had Leading Role in Torture

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