This is a common meme on social media. The quote is attributed to Voltaire – who, indeed, was antisemitic, thinking that Jews were too ‘Asiatic’ ever to integrate into Europe and ‘deserved to be punished’ for that failure – but really, he’s just there to give the words a spurious legitimacy. In fact the quote comes from Kevin Strom, an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi, and it shows the key element of such utterances: defiance.
This point is uncontroversially true. Left social media use this meme and quote all the time and should know better.
