How white supremacists appropriated a Megan Thee Stallion song
“White boy summer,” a phrase popular among white supremacists, was promoted at a far-right convention Trump attended over the weekend. Here’s the phrase’s origin.
...This phrase, which the Anti-Defamation League notes has become
become popular among white supremacists, first began as a variation of a statement of womanly pride by rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Megan popularized the phrase “Hot Girl Summer” in 2019 to promote women’s independence and bodily autonomy. She
faced misogynistic backlash for promoting these things, spurring some men to promote the phrase “Hot Boy Summer” as a cringeworthy competitor. Then, white men —
such as Tom Hanks’ son Chet — appropriated the phrase to create “White Boy Summer” as a declaration of their purportedly fleeting summertime freedom."