🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?
There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face.
Not a general. Not a flag.
A Black woman.
Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.
Let’s talk about why that’s not progress. 👇🏾
Black women carry cultural credibility.
We’ve been truth-tellers, moral anchors, movement leaders.
We signify justice, resistance, clarity.
So now? We’re being simulated to sell messages we never co-signed.
Problematic as hell.
The AI video I saw showed a young “Black servicewoman” in combat greens surrounded by other service personnel in a 'desert' holding her phone like it was recording her, celebrating a successful bombing on Iran.
I think the caption was something like a Matthew 5:9 scripture quote, "Blessed are the peacemakers." (a pun on the type of missile, I guess.)
But she wasn’t real.
No real woman said those words. (And how effing dare they tap into the whole church thing.)
Someone generated her to perform consent.
To make empire sound like empowerment.
This isn’t representation—it’s digital blackface with imperial intent.
It’s camouflage.
The message is war.
But the messenger looks like someone you’ve learned to trust.
It’s giving Starship Troopers (which dropped during the first quagmires we entered during Iraq) —
Satire of American militarism, where the propaganda felt so over-the-top it was funny…
Until you realize:
That’s exactly what this is.
But now it’s AI-generated. And not satire.
Media and cultural literacy are survival skills now.
Because the people behind these videos know what Black women signify.
They’re not choosing our likeness by accident.
They’re laundering power through a trusted image.
Who's going to tell you the truth? A blonde in a MAGA hat or AG Leticia James?
AI lets them do this without permission. And it's alarming how good these videos are, if you're not paying attention!
What a bang for their buck:
No real spokesperson.
No accountability.
Just a synthetic Black woman with perfect skin and polished tone, and *almost* the right syntax, pushing war on your feed.
It's ... wild.
Using Black women as moral mascots.
A fascist deepfake in a twist-out.
That's some wild shit.
@DeliaChristina Disgusting, but not surprising. Any ideas about how to fight it, apart from what you're doing to let folks know?
I don't know.
First, I think folks need to know these videos exist.
Then I think folks need to understand what propaganda is and how this type of content goes beyond being a mere ad for the US military and into something else.
Questions need to be asked when folks see these videos:
What is this video saying?
Why this image? Who's benefitting from it? What's missing from this video?
Why 'her' and why now? What's going to be the anticipated outcome?
And then the Call to Action:
Do NOT fall for this crap trying to get our young Black and Brown folks killed in a cause that's corrupt and foul.
We may have served before but this ain't that.
Hang with me on this, but maybe the whole Liberal Theory of Identity Politics is hapless against this kinda shit because the Liberal Theory of Identity Politics basically is dittoing the presumed consensus of an Identity that they are A. Sympathetic to B. Is how they perform notions of solidarity at its maximal.
@ciggysmokebringer @DeliaChristina @Fishercat yeah I think everyone, deep down, knows there's men and women of every race in the US army that support, and some who don't support, the strikes against Iran. (I mean point remains about tasteless AI more broadly, but still.)
"we never co-signed" - pretty much everyone knows there's no "we" that cosigned, if it's any comfort.
