Artificial Panic: AI Images Fuel Anti-Migrant Sentiment, British Academic Claims
@KerryAnnison on X, 20 July 2025.
Bodies like the EU must force tech companies to make it impossible for AI users to generate “stereotypical representations of Black people, Arabs and Muslims," Lopes Buarque says.
What was the true root cause of the anti-immigration riots and protests which rocked the United Kingdom last summer and have continued doing so intermittently ever since? The logical explanation could be that the native population are sick and tired of seeing their civilisation and their culture replaced by unassimilable outsiders, a feeling brought to a head by the murder of three innocent little girls in the town of Southport by a supposed ‘Welsh choirboy’ who later turned out to be a black Rwandan second-generation settler. Yet some British MPs claim to know better: the disturbances were actually caused by crude and ‘offensive’ pictures circulating on the Internet, without which nobody would ever have objected to such acts of senseless infanticide.
The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee recently published new academic research submitted as part of its inquiry into what it calls “new forms of extremism.” According to an article publicising this study in The Times, what is really causing all the anti-immigration marches right across Europe at the moment are not the endless rapes, stabbings, crime, and acts of terror unleashed as the continent’s demographics shift, but sinister AI-generated online meme pics like the one below, which depict beefy white European heroes bravely standing up against invading flotillas of brown neo-Ottoman soldiers.
Without incredibly photo-realistic pictures such as these—which, it is implied, unwary web users (possibly ones in need of an urgent visit to an optician) might potentially take for genuine real-life images—Europe would currently be completely at peace.
Buarque-ing mad
The report published by Parliament would seem to be ‘AI and the Far-Right Riots in the UK’ by Brazilian intellectual Beatriz Lopes Buarque. Currently based at the London School of Economics (LSE), Buarque describes herself on the LSE website as “a Politics scholar working with critical theory broadly construed and Lacanian psychoanalysis to understand the ways in which digital capitalism intersects with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and truth.” Translated from the woke, that seems to mean that she is an extreme leftist who holds the views of ordinary primitive white European citizens in complete contempt.
The founder of a utopian-minded NGO, ‘Words Heal the World’, which “partners and empowers students across the world to tackle extremism and hate online”, the level of practicality of Lopez’s naïve, reality-defying opinions is perhaps best summed up by the fact her political heroine is Oprah Winfrey:
I really wish to meet her someday! She suffered discrimination and was abused, but against all odds became one of the most influential personalities in the world. Every time I fail, I read her story and tell myself: Oprah was also discriminated [against], abused, and was not taken seriously by many people. Nevertheless, she pursued her dreams and achieved them. If she did it, I can too. And I will do it! … My goal is to take Words Heal to as many countries as possible to contribute to local social cohesion and help shape a better society. One that is ruled by a virtuous circle of peace.
Just like Oprah’s America is right now. Charlie Kirk thought an exchange of words might help heal political divisions, too, but then someone of Beatriz Lopes Buarque’s rough ‘anti-fascist’ persuasion came along and shot him dead through the throat.
Does not compute
In her report, Buarque says she and her team of “leading experts on the far-right, alt-tech, racism, algorithmic culture, societal culture, and misogyny” made “a quantitative analysis” of 622 social media posts made within a British context by “the far-right political party Britain First” and, within a wider European context, of “the self-proclaimed media outlet Europe Invasion” from 4 July to 4 August 2024. Allegedly, this revealed such posts were substantially responsible for causing the post-Southport riots, even though the Southport stabbings themselves only took place on 29 July. Did Britain First and Europe Invasion know the murders were about to take place beforehand somehow?
Despite what the Commons Select Committee pretends to believe, Buarque can provide no direct causative link between the posts examined and the riots, merely a broad temporal correlation; all she can actually demonstrate is that online posts featuring AI-generated images are more popular than ones featuring only text, or genuine real-life photos, gaining around 30% higher rates of ‘amplification’ (i.e., shares, likes, retweets, etc.) than others.
As a non-white immigrant herself, Buarque found such posts’ content very disturbing, as they promoted Renaud Camus’ Great Replacement “conspiracy theory” [sic] in “racist” visual terms by depicting “Black and Brown migrants, particularly Muslim men, as ‘invaders’ and White people, especially men, as ‘heroes’ entitled to protect the nation.”
Meanwhile, the images further “weaponised White femininity by portraying White British and European women as vulnerable figures in need of constant protection” from attack and rape by foreign hordes, thereby creating an atmosphere of “ambient extremism” amongst the general European public, ultimately causing them to riot.
Panic on the streets of London
How plausible is it that ordinary white European web users are going to see such CGI pictures and believe they are depictions of real-life scenes of Islamist terror to be resisted and white crusader heroism to be emulated? Not very, to judge by another report Buarque has authored, ‘The Weaponisation of AI: Visual Storytelling of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Amid the Southport Riots’, which features an entire gallery of AI images she has pulled from the web, images which are best described as being ‘not very realistic’. Here, for example, the very worst fears of Professor David Betz about looming civil war in the UK have apparently come true about ten years too early:
Fortunately, Batman being on holiday, Commissioner Gordon of the Metropolitan Police was able to repurpose the Bat-Signal to summon Nigel Farage to combat the Mohammedan hordes, once it turned out Ra’s al-Ghul and King Tut had escaped from Arkham Asylum/Belmarsh High Security Prison once again:
Bat-Farage also had able help and assistance in his task from certain other well-known comic-book superheroes:
Isn’t the Incredible Hulk meant to be green, not white?
CGI: computer-generated idiocy
The idea that brief momentary exposure to such perceptibly fake cartoon images online would automatically make people riot by “activating a crusading mentality on a massive scale” is pathetic head-burying. Rather than placating the public by re-sealing the borders, Buarque instead proposes the real answer is pan-European digital censorship. Bodies like the EU, Buarque says, must force tech companies to “recognise the harms caused by stereotypical representations of Black people, Arabs and Muslims” and develop algorithmic means to either make it impossible for AI users to generate them or to easily share them.
Actually, Buarque is the one in thrall to bizarre, AI-generated fantasies; she talks of these pictures “projecting White (Christian) Europeans as entitled to fully occupy European territories … because these spaces have been historically fantasised as exclusively inhabited by white (Christian) Europeans.” But that’s the truth, not a fantasy; Europe really was 99.9% white Christian until incredibly recently. Perhaps Ms. Buarque has been confused herself by all those dodgy AI-generated memes of Venezuelan Vikings and Nigerian Nazis that have been circulating online of late?
If Buarque really wants to see some hysterical AI-generated online footage, she could look at a new semi-AI short film put out online by left-wing UK campaign body The Stop Trump Coalition, protesting against Donald’s state visit to Britain this September, which claims, with a straight face, that his presence would unleash an immediate fascist coup upon the land. AI-generated death-squad white supremacist stormtroopers mouth threats like “They call it diversity; we call it dilution,” before a literal fake-news reader tells viewers troops are rounding up non-whites all across the nation, whilst “Liverpool and Birmingham are in flames.”
The film’s frontwoman, dangerously Aryan-looking blonde fanatical pro-migrant campaigner Zoe Gardner (sadly not AI-generated herself, so she can’t be switched off), warned that, if Donald Trump was not prevented from shaking hands and having afternoon tea with Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, Britain and the world would be “opening the door to global fascism.”
Surely that’s the kind of dangerous and divisive, politically extreme, AI-image-fuelled online rhetoric which could lead some susceptible viewers to go out and engage in acts of extreme violence against innocent people with whom they happen to disagree politically? Beatriz Lopes Buarque should really write some kind of report into it all before it’s too late and someone gets killed or something.
Oh, wait. It already is.
Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer whose work has appeared in print and online worldwide. The author of over ten books, mostly about fringe-beliefs and eccentrics, his latest title, Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science (Pen & Sword/Frontline) is available now, and exposes how the insane and murderous abuses of science perpetrated by the Nazis and the Soviets are being repeated anew today by the woke Left who have now captured so many of our institutions of learning.
Artificial Panic: AI Images Fuel Anti-Migrant Sentiment, British Academic Claims
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What was the true root cause of the anti-immigration riots and protests which rocked the United Kingdom last summer and have continued doing so intermittently ever since? The logical explanation could be that the native population are sick and tired of seeing their civilisation and their culture replaced by unassimilable outsiders, a feeling brought to a head by the murder of three innocent little girls in the town of Southport by a supposed ‘Welsh choirboy’ who later turned out to be a black Rwandan second-generation settler. Yet some British MPs claim to know better: the disturbances were actually caused by crude and ‘offensive’ pictures circulating on the Internet, without which nobody would ever have objected to such acts of senseless infanticide.
The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee recently published new academic research submitted as part of its inquiry into what it calls “new forms of extremism.” According to an article publicising this study in The Times, what is really causing all the anti-immigration marches right across Europe at the moment are not the endless rapes, stabbings, crime, and acts of terror unleashed as the continent’s demographics shift, but sinister AI-generated online meme pics like the one below, which depict beefy white European heroes bravely standing up against invading flotillas of brown neo-Ottoman soldiers.
Without incredibly photo-realistic pictures such as these—which, it is implied, unwary web users (possibly ones in need of an urgent visit to an optician) might potentially take for genuine real-life images—Europe would currently be completely at peace.
Buarque-ing mad
The report published by Parliament would seem to be ‘AI and the Far-Right Riots in the UK’ by Brazilian intellectual Beatriz Lopes Buarque. Currently based at the London School of Economics (LSE), Buarque describes herself on the LSE website as “a Politics scholar working with critical theory broadly construed and Lacanian psychoanalysis to understand the ways in which digital capitalism intersects with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and truth.” Translated from the woke, that seems to mean that she is an extreme leftist who holds the views of ordinary primitive white European citizens in complete contempt.
The founder of a utopian-minded NGO, ‘Words Heal the World’, which “partners and empowers students across the world to tackle extremism and hate online”, the level of practicality of Lopez’s naïve, reality-defying opinions is perhaps best summed up by the fact her political heroine is Oprah Winfrey:
Just like Oprah’s America is right now. Charlie Kirk thought an exchange of words might help heal political divisions, too, but then someone of Beatriz Lopes Buarque’s rough ‘anti-fascist’ persuasion came along and shot him dead through the throat.
Does not compute
In her report, Buarque says she and her team of “leading experts on the far-right, alt-tech, racism, algorithmic culture, societal culture, and misogyny” made “a quantitative analysis” of 622 social media posts made within a British context by “the far-right political party Britain First” and, within a wider European context, of “the self-proclaimed media outlet Europe Invasion” from 4 July to 4 August 2024. Allegedly, this revealed such posts were substantially responsible for causing the post-Southport riots, even though the Southport stabbings themselves only took place on 29 July. Did Britain First and Europe Invasion know the murders were about to take place beforehand somehow?
Despite what the Commons Select Committee pretends to believe, Buarque can provide no direct causative link between the posts examined and the riots, merely a broad temporal correlation; all she can actually demonstrate is that online posts featuring AI-generated images are more popular than ones featuring only text, or genuine real-life photos, gaining around 30% higher rates of ‘amplification’ (i.e., shares, likes, retweets, etc.) than others.
As a non-white immigrant herself, Buarque found such posts’ content very disturbing, as they promoted Renaud Camus’ Great Replacement “conspiracy theory” [sic] in “racist” visual terms by depicting “Black and Brown migrants, particularly Muslim men, as ‘invaders’ and White people, especially men, as ‘heroes’ entitled to protect the nation.”
Meanwhile, the images further “weaponised White femininity by portraying White British and European women as vulnerable figures in need of constant protection” from attack and rape by foreign hordes, thereby creating an atmosphere of “ambient extremism” amongst the general European public, ultimately causing them to riot.
Panic on the streets of London
How plausible is it that ordinary white European web users are going to see such CGI pictures and believe they are depictions of real-life scenes of Islamist terror to be resisted and white crusader heroism to be emulated? Not very, to judge by another report Buarque has authored, ‘The Weaponisation of AI: Visual Storytelling of the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory Amid the Southport Riots’, which features an entire gallery of AI images she has pulled from the web, images which are best described as being ‘not very realistic’. Here, for example, the very worst fears of Professor David Betz about looming civil war in the UK have apparently come true about ten years too early:
Fortunately, Batman being on holiday, Commissioner Gordon of the Metropolitan Police was able to repurpose the Bat-Signal to summon Nigel Farage to combat the Mohammedan hordes, once it turned out Ra’s al-Ghul and King Tut had escaped from Arkham Asylum/Belmarsh High Security Prison once again:
Bat-Farage also had able help and assistance in his task from certain other well-known comic-book superheroes:
Isn’t the Incredible Hulk meant to be green, not white?
CGI: computer-generated idiocy
The idea that brief momentary exposure to such perceptibly fake cartoon images online would automatically make people riot by “activating a crusading mentality on a massive scale” is pathetic head-burying. Rather than placating the public by re-sealing the borders, Buarque instead proposes the real answer is pan-European digital censorship. Bodies like the EU, Buarque says, must force tech companies to “recognise the harms caused by stereotypical representations of Black people, Arabs and Muslims” and develop algorithmic means to either make it impossible for AI users to generate them or to easily share them.
Actually, Buarque is the one in thrall to bizarre, AI-generated fantasies; she talks of these pictures “projecting White (Christian) Europeans as entitled to fully occupy European territories … because these spaces have been historically fantasised as exclusively inhabited by white (Christian) Europeans.” But that’s the truth, not a fantasy; Europe really was 99.9% white Christian until incredibly recently. Perhaps Ms. Buarque has been confused herself by all those dodgy AI-generated memes of Venezuelan Vikings and Nigerian Nazis that have been circulating online of late?
If Buarque really wants to see some hysterical AI-generated online footage, she could look at a new semi-AI short film put out online by left-wing UK campaign body The Stop Trump Coalition, protesting against Donald’s state visit to Britain this September, which claims, with a straight face, that his presence would unleash an immediate fascist coup upon the land. AI-generated death-squad white supremacist stormtroopers mouth threats like “They call it diversity; we call it dilution,” before a literal fake-news reader tells viewers troops are rounding up non-whites all across the nation, whilst “Liverpool and Birmingham are in flames.”
The film’s frontwoman, dangerously Aryan-looking blonde fanatical pro-migrant campaigner Zoe Gardner (sadly not AI-generated herself, so she can’t be switched off), warned that, if Donald Trump was not prevented from shaking hands and having afternoon tea with Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, Britain and the world would be “opening the door to global fascism.”
Surely that’s the kind of dangerous and divisive, politically extreme, AI-image-fuelled online rhetoric which could lead some susceptible viewers to go out and engage in acts of extreme violence against innocent people with whom they happen to disagree politically? Beatriz Lopes Buarque should really write some kind of report into it all before it’s too late and someone gets killed or something.
Oh, wait. It already is.
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