#WARNING

[leam1983]

On the other hand, the best way to disarm slang the Alt-Right uses is to relentlessly embrace it, but in our own contexts. So, honestly, I have zero problems with Autistics calling themselves Pattern Noticers, because that's a use-case that is demonstrably more correct than anything the Alt-Right chucklefucks come up with.

Neurodivergents actually notice patterns and pattern-breaks. Ask any neuropsych - that's a fact. MAGAts, however, don't notice anything; what they call noticing, I call hallucinating.

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.

[galaxy2earthspark]

Warning for people who are sensitive about the topic of rape.

Someone explain to me why there are suddenly multiple fics on Ao3 of Breakdown either, being jealous of the maltos and tries to find a way to get Bee away from them by implementing a sex drug into his energon to get him sparked, or Breakdown tries to fucking rape him?

[zeuniqueartist]

Better Left Unsaid

[reading-writing-revolution]

(via The Appeasers - The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump)

What a bunch of sad fucks! What a fucking failure!

“Of course, the appeasement, or as scholars of authoritarianism call it, anticipatory obedience, by certain outlets began well in advance of the election. Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong, owners of The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times’ respectively, refused to allow the papers’ editorial boards to endorse Kamala Harris.The most embarrassing current example of this appeasement was the spectacle of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi of MSNBC’s Morning Joe announcing on live television that they had visited Donald at Mar-a-Lago. Brzezinksi said the following:For those asking why we would speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, I would ask back: Why wouldn’t we? It’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but talking with him.Why wouldn’t you? Because, if you have integrity, if you believe your own warnings, you do not ever make common cause with fascists. That’s why.“

Fuck the media. We’ve watched them fail for the past 10 years. Why? $$$

[justcatposts]

Thanks for the warning

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[nataliedecorsair]

A warning about AI crap

@giannaaziz1998blog this user browses through art-related hashtags and steals your work, AI-fies it and posts with the same hashtags as in your original post. It could be a bot, it's getting hard to tell at this point. For example, that thing saw my post, stole my very old non-glazed sketch, slapped AI on it and posted with exactly the same hashtags, even though some of them aren't related to it. Also restricted replies, of course, and blocked me. Please, block and report them, I'm not the only artist who was "blessed" with this abomination.

P.S. - glaze your art if you can, people. That's the only way to protect your art at the moment.

[soon-palestine]

[kurookami-no-kuraitsuki]

Yeah. Sometimes I just want to fucking go and be alone for a week and just do nothing. No people, no contact, no work, no society just... nothing.

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[macksting]

[ID: Warning decal. Says, "Warning!" in white on red for high visibility, then in black impact font, "This machine does not know the difference between metal and flesh, but cares a lot, so please stay out of its way. It would be very sad if it accidentally hurt you." /end ID]

[reality-detective]

Dr. Sherry Tenpenny 🤔

[thenewstooges]

moe - yeah,we need everyone to report this user or users and stop these scat stuff from happening,I dint think I've been asked this yet.

Cool. It sure is nice to wake up in the morning and a troll sends you an ask with disgusting gifs (yes, multiple.).

Just block and report, please. It's a good thing I'm not easily affected by these because I'm desensitized, and tumblr's blur feature comes in clutch.

[polishwave]

[translation: WARNING! DON'T DO WHAT YOU'RE DOING. /administrative penalty]

[runby2]

HEY EVERYONE HUGE PSA

i had NO idea about this but if you are chronically ill, finding yourself having breathing issues, being constantly sick, etc,

CHECK YOUR WINDOW AC FOR BLACK MOLD.

WE RENTED AN APARTMENT and for some reason the landlords did not clean the AC unit! and I was unaware we had to check this portion of the AC for the black mold!

please keep yourselves safe! dont breathe in mold spores, especially not of this variety!!!!

[elranno]

Absolutely fuck you, Tumblr @staff . I'll poison and glaze every single image I upload here, if I ever do. And all users should do the same.