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@hidden @hidden On November 17, 2016, a 4chan user posted "day of the rake soon" in response to a news article stating that Canadian war hospitals would treat ISIS fighters in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. This is a reference to the "day of the rope," a fictitious mass lynching depicted in the 1978 novel The Turner Diaries by neo-Nazi author William Luther Pierce.

The idea of purging Canadians resurfaced in a meme, likely created in April 2017, wherein a curtain is drawn back to reveal a maple leaf with shitposter face typing on a keyboard. This is an edit of a poster created by notable Nazi propagandist Hans Schweitzer. Curiously, the poster's year of creation does not seem to be known. The meme edit continues to enjoy modern relevance, for example as the NSFW cover image for recently-decommissioned Fediverse instance "Leafposter Club".

There is a certain tension between these two portrayals of the menace of the online Canadian. The use of Schweitzer's poster likens the Canadian to the Jew, implied prejudicially to be the 'man behind the curtain' who stands at the top of a grand conspiracy. In contrast, the "day of the rope" in the Turner Diaries is merely a purge of white people who collaborated with the "System" in various ways - when the "day of the rope" takes place, all non-whites have already been driven out of the white ethnostate. Are Canadians meant to be hidden puppetmasters of salt and seething, or are they merely the stooges of greater powers, as the "Cuck" stamp on Justin Trudeau's face would imply?

Certainly, the Canadian state does possess some measure of agency. The Canadian Border Services Agency has classified The Turner Diaries as hate propaganda and banned its import into the country. Therein lies the delicious irony of the "day of the rake" meme: it mocks a nation using a work of literature which they are banned from reading, by the very same paternalistic government which makes them worthy of mockery.

When the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation describes the Canadian military as being 'raked' online, it is a state-sponsored publication describing the humiliation of its own military via reference to Nazi and neo-Nazi propaganda depictions of ethnic cleansing. This is fitting of a state whose Prime Minister has declared it to be the "world's first post-national state." The goal of mass immigration lobbying groups such as the Century Initiative is not to cleanse the nation of its people - as white supremacists like Pierce would have it - but instead to cleanse the people of their nation.

There is another layer of humor in the "day of the rake" which derives from the fact that a rake is not a traditional or efficient means of execution. The malleable tines and breakable wooden handle of a typical rake make its use as a weapon of genocide implausible to the point of hilarity. It drives home the conceit of the joke, which is that Canadians are literally leaves, dwelling in the world in a leaflike way, drifting down from trees, lying scattered in the backyards of homes they cannot enter because they have no arms. This image parallels antisemitic myths that Jews are (or transform into) cockroaches or rats. The transfiguration aspect of the 'leaf' meme is reprised in the 'day of the grill,' which likens Americans to 'burgers' because they are both made of mystery meat.

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