Milk.

Aside from Jeb Bush silently devouring an entire sleeve of saltines while watching Antique Roadshow in a windowless room, there are few things more fundamentally innocuous than milk. For chrissake, the stuff is classically associated with birth and purity in countless cultures.

But now, there's word going around that milk has been nefariously co-opted and transformed into the preeminent symbol of both Neo-Nazis and the "alt-right". Earlier this month, a group of white nationalists—many of whom bore tattoos with Nazi iconography—made headlines after they paraded around shirtless and drank one-gallon jugs of milk in front of He Will Not Divide Us, Shia LaBeouf's now-defunct livestream art installation at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

The puzzling move left many wondering what the fuck was going on and caused publications like Mic to state that "Milk is the new, creamy symbol of white racial purity in Donald Trump's America." Mic's article alleges that certain white supremacists believe milk to be a symbol of Caucasian superiority and that ethnicities with large rates of lactose intolerance are somehow inferior.

Frankly, we'd be more secure and prosperous if we screened out anyone lacking the genes to tolerate lactose into adulthood. #MilkTwitter pic.twitter.com/mg7RgWyLi2 — ? Memes for Tay (@MemesForTay) February 12, 2017

As example of this belief, Mic points to a 4chan thread titled "Enter the Milk Zone," in which a poster repurposes graphs of global "lactose hotspots" from a study titled "Lactose tolerance in a Slavic population." Additionally, the thread is filled with racist diatribes about industrial schemes to purposefully taint the purity of milk as well as poems relating to milk, including one that reads: "Roses are red, Barack is half-black, if you can't drink milk, you have to go back."