I share your concern, but this sort of thing isn't new.
Through the use of mocking cartoons, the British tabloids convinced the general public that Napoleon was short (he was in fact taller than average).
I have read suggestions that the mockery in the British press was one of the reasons Napoleon declared war on the British again in 1802.
My lament is that these memes (which aren't even the work of the people that post them) dumb down authentic discourse.
Why bother articulating your thoughts, when you can just cut and paste someone else's, right?
