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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 am a big fan of circe and calypso in the odyssey!!

ive been seeing a lot of people say that circe and calypso sexually assaulted or coerced odysseus, which is understandable because by todays standards, it definitely WAS coercion. but what a lot of people forget is this story was written literally thousands of years ago in an incredibly misogynistic society. if you interpret it from a modern standpoint, you’re kind of missing the whole point

the main theme in a lot of the stories from odysseus’ journey is temptation/distraction. odysseus’ men time and time again succumb to distractions and odysseus is the one who has to save their butts (lotus eaters). circe was another obstacle, she and her sexy nymphs or whatever seduce odysseus’ men and odysseus does what he has to do to SAVE THEM. this isn’t about circe coercing him into sex, it’s a testament to odysseus’ character that he doesn’t succumb to temptation.

calypso is less of an obstacle and more of a villain. the temptation is still there; she promises him immortality and sex and everything any other man would take, but she holds him captive while he cries on the beach every day because he misses his wife so much. odysseus sleeping with calypso is obviously forced but it wasn’t seen in the same light we see it today.

these women were written as seductresses because that’s how homer viewed women. the whole point is that odysseus stayed loyal to penelope in his mind and even if it wasn’t forced, he would be loyal anyway because affairs weren’t seen as adultery. and if wejre applying today’s logic odysseus 100% cheated on penelope, he was a man in ancient greece lets get real.

anyways circe and calypso are cool sorry for being so pretentious im just tired of seeing the same two opinions

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this is so stupid i’m so sorry

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I miss them please find them soon

hey guys I lost my silly pirates can you help me find them

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why is "mummies are so rare bc the british ate them" always presented as like a morbid fun fact and not an example of heinous racism and dehumanization of people of colour to the point of cannibalism. a little bit odd if im honest.

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I can finally give my dog a birthday!!!

just a cute little fact but august 1st is also designated as the universal birthday for shelter dogs whose actual birthdays are unknown

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It is so frustrating seeing people continue to watch and buy stuff from her. My Dad has decided that now he wants to actually watch the movies so he can understand refrences and it is so frustrating because I have to bring up constantly how bad of a person the creator is and it is draining. But we did pirate the first movie and both complained about how dumb the rules are for the Quiddith matches are. GUYS IF THE TINY GOLD BALL LETS YOU END THE GAME WITH 150 POINTS JUST GO AFTER THAT ONE THERE IS NO REASON FOR THE OTHER BALLS

"didn't you used to like hp"

yes cuz i was a child and it was a huge phenomenon that gave me an easy sense of wonder and companionship shared with my peers and i was unaware of many evils of the world

i am now an adult and able to see how hateful its creator is and what kind of messages she spreads and i don't want that in my life ✌️ she finds my existence "tragic" and "unfortunate" and is funding legislation that kills people, she can suck my entire ass

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troy doodles

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I figured out how to draw Runt I'm so excited for the next episode.

Shes my favorite already

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He would be blasting this in the streets with blink trying to stop him I can see it so clearly

This is what boredom and 15 minutes does to a person

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WHERE IS HIS SOUL CRUSHING STAIRE WITH HIS BLINDING BLUE EYES BRING IT BACK

I love your artstyle and your so right, Kabru is a freak

some kabru doodles cus im obsessed with this freak

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Canonically her height

all right cheese balls shes literally the smartest girl in town

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I have no idea if runt canonically has a constant cough or grizzly was just sick for the first episode but I rlly hope it stays

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Chibo

Chip desing from Twitter

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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I have now collected so many magic items for my shops in my dnd campaign that will really only hurt the party

This may be toxic but the things they do in this campaign tsk tsk tsk

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How hungry...