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Hello friends, there's a dogwhistle I've seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.

Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen-- towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.

A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a "noticer," "noticing patterns," "pattern noticer," etc. I've seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don't provide any context about what sorts of "things" they may be noticing.

Here's the meme that I saw a blog I'm following reblog last night.

Seems pretty harmless, right? It's a meme with a cute cat.

In alt-right circles, what they are referring to "noticing" is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/"noticing" evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like "noticing patterns" that doesn't elaborate what those supposed patterns are-- just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself-- take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it's forbidden to talk about who might be behind the "conspiracies" they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.

I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they've been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That's why dogwhistles are so effective-- to the average person they look harmless if you don't know what to watch out for!

Let's take a look at how alt-righters use this term.

Here's an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.

Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:

-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.

-"those who cannot be named"/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it's forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.

-"world events and agendas": idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc

-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.

-Early life: refers to the section in a person's Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it'll usually say so there.

-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.

Here's probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.

The title and first bullet point include the "noticer" term. This meme also talks about a "group" who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?

Here's a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.

A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second... Well, I don't have a twitter so I couldn't view.

Let's unpack these a little. The first one has "13 outta 52," a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as "savage": 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. "109 countries" refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn't entirely true. Some "countries" in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.

The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called "Aryan nation," they're going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding "Aryan" German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.

The reason why I'm emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I'll show a couple examples from Tumblr:

And

I've left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt-- they both explicitly refer to being a "pattern noticer" in terms of neurodivergence. And it's easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.

Stay safe and let's keep Tumblr free of this shit.

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i love you yaoi fentanyl

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Sorry to burst your fucking bubble, but there are scammers all over the world and will profit over a genocide. Nobody has the time to carefully inspect these gofundmes and shit. It's shady as fuck to mass bot asks telling you to donate, sorry but not really sorry. Donate to official originazations because those can actually be checked to be legit.

brooo people need to stop sending me those scam 'im in gaza and i need help' stuff

i see a notif in my inbox and im so happy but then i find out that its just a scammer 💀

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PLEASE READ BEFORE SENDING ASK

Please stop sending me asks asking for money. I support a free Palestine but I can't look into everyone and I don't want to post a potential scam to my account. I have a busy home life so don't guilt trip me.

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Probably because her viewers are about as dumb as her. Media literacy is dead is an overused phrase but with her it's definitely true.

Also I've seen people say she said "1984 is a conspiracy book for nut jobs" or something similar. I haven't seen any evidence on this but considering she misunderstands The Handmaid's Tale I wouldn't be surprised.

Pieces of media that would send Lily orchard into a coma

I have no mouth and must scream (both game and short)

The odyssey

The iliad

07-Ghosts

Call of duty

Blue exorcist

The exorcist

Midsummer

The tale of huckleberry finn

The handmaid's tale

Of mice and men

Night

The absolute true story of a part-time Indian

The saw movies

That one time, I was reincarnated as a slime

My ordinary life

The apothecary diary

Anything written by Aron beauregard

Johnny, the homicidal maniac

Bojack horseman

Love death and robots

Robots

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Yep. She showed a shot from the series while complaining about how Utena is titillating because of the abuse portrayed in the show. (Word for sexually arousing)

Pieces of media that would send Lily orchard into a coma

I have no mouth and must scream (both game and short)

The odyssey

The iliad

07-Ghosts

Call of duty

Blue exorcist

The exorcist

Midsummer

The tale of huckleberry finn

The handmaid's tale

Of mice and men

Night

The absolute true story of a part-time Indian

The saw movies

That one time, I was reincarnated as a slime

My ordinary life

The apothecary diary

Anything written by Aron beauregard

Johnny, the homicidal maniac

Bojack horseman

Love death and robots

Robots

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Oh no, she already thinks The Handmaid's Tale is supposed to be some sort of fetish and sexually gratifying instead of horrifying.

Pieces of media that would send Lily orchard into a coma

I have no mouth and must scream (both game and short)

The odyssey

The iliad

07-Ghosts

Call of duty

Blue exorcist

The exorcist

Midsummer

The tale of huckleberry finn

The handmaid's tale

Of mice and men

Night

The absolute true story of a part-time Indian

The saw movies

That one time, I was reincarnated as a slime

My ordinary life

The apothecary diary

Anything written by Aron beauregard

Johnny, the homicidal maniac

Bojack horseman

Love death and robots

Robots

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My take on this trend :)

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Baldness is for nerds this is a battle to the death. If you have the same character/pfp on both platforms you have to decide which is the superior.

You have to explain your reasoning in the reblogs too

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psych wards are organised abuse but society isnt ready for that conversation

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I'm telling you you guys have to stop buying into the propaganda about disability fakers. EVEN if fakers exist to the extent that it is a massive problem, disabled people still should be given proper support. If governments and other organizations fail to deliver that it does not matter what their excuse is; they have still failed disabled people and that is unacceptable. If their solution to so-called fakers is one that harms disabled people then they have not actually solved anything, but it sure as hell is a convenient scapegoat.

It also CANNOT be overstated that many people with legitimate needs are and will continue to be labeled as fakers, a sentence which is hurtful at best and deadly at worst.

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Not everyone who is a woman is a non-man, and not everyone who is a man is a non-woman. Some people's genders aren't non-anything. Sit on that and nurture it and let it hatch and grow up to be a healthy worldview love and peace on planet earth

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Why is it we assume every disabled person is disabled because of their fatness? Even if they were disabled because they're too fat, why don't they deserve compassion and accomodations?

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I hate how “sleeping with someone” means having sex with them because I want to literally sleep with someone and cuddle and feel comfy and safe without people thinking we had sex

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh

God yeah it's so dumb. And it's like, some siblings sleep in the same bed together but most people don't think that's weird, why do they immediately take it sexually the moment it isn't with people who are related? :/

Sleeping together can be sexual sure, but it can also be romantic or platonic or anything else or nothing at all. Why is it always assumed sexually