#cw white supremacy

[astirysk2electricboogaloo]

I got the majority of this information from the YouTuber Annamarie Forcino's video "The Alarming "Gnome Hunting" Trend No One's Talking About". (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf0bZOMuVFs)

This post is to help spread this information.

Please be aware:

• If you come across anything with the term "gnome hunting" or anything listed below online, block and report the account immediately. If you come across it offline, covertly and safely get the absolute fuck out of there. Warn others.

• Keep yourself safe. As with any bullshit like this these people may be violent. The wearing of tactical gear and the use of the word hunting when talking about a group of human beings is not peaceful or respectful of life. Exercise caution. Especially if you are in a group the groups they're in target.

• This is mostly on TikTok, DO NOT SEARCH FOR IT ON SITES WITH THE ALGORITHM. This will drive engagement and help it spread. If you come across it block and report it but do not search it.

The term "gnome hunting" is being used by antisemitists/neonazis/white supremacists to refer to themselves, they themselves being the "hunters" and those they target, Jews, being the "gnomes" and is a way for them to talk in code.

Things to watch out for with this specific wave of antisemitic bullshit are but are not limited to:

"join the hunt" = join us.

"millions wear the hats" millions = the Jews, hats = the Jewish Yarmulke/Kippah (a Jewish head covering). This phrase refers to Jewish people in general. When they use this phrase they are talking about Jews.

"kike" a slur against those of Jewish descent and or those who are practicing Judaism.

"88" H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. 88 = hh = "hail hitler".

"⚡⚡" "ᛋᛋ" "ϟϟ" Two lightning bolt emojis, two Greek letter ᛋ's, or two lighting bolt symbols side by side = the nazi ss. The nazi ss flag is two lighting bolt symbols side by side.

"Z" or "z" The English letter Z/z is used by russian nazis against Ukrainians who are being murdered by and suffering war crimes at the hands of russian nazis since the current russian dictator putin invaded Ukraine. Has unfortunately spread and is being used by nazis in other countries. The symbol has similarities to the wolfsangel.

"Ƶ" The wolfsangel. An ancient runic symbol believed to have been capable of warding off wolves, appropriated by nazi organizations in nazi Germany. Still used by white supremacists/nazis today.

(Cannot find a symbol for this.) The sunwheel, sonnenrad, or black sun. A symbol from old Norse and old Celtic culture. Also appropriated by nazis, still used by neonazis today.

"schizopost" "schizoposting" Used by neonazis when they use neurodivergence/mental illness (they do not struggle with) as an excuse for their bullshit. Ex: saying "I'm insane" "I'm schizophrenic" "me and the boys being schizophrenic" in the same post about "gnome hunting" or with any relation to nazi/white supremacists ideology.

[qqueenofhades]

Hoping you can explain this because you’re smart but why in the world are the same people who scream about a labor shortage worried about the border and immigration? Isn’t more people coming to our country a good thing if we train them properly to fill vacant positions (a lot of which are service jobs anyway)?

Alas, you are forgetting what is quite possibly the chief shibboleth of Western white supremacy/far-right nationalism: that all people from other countries, especially *gasp* the brown ones, are invaders, murderers, job-stealers, polluters of the (white) body politic, etc, and that under no circumstances should they be invited or allowed to stay. This isn't just an American thing; witness the Tories in the UK salivating over the idea of torturing migrants, trying to shut down any legal migration routes even with the employment black hole caused by Brexit, steadfastly denying that their workforce problems have anything to do with Brexit, steadfastly denying that they need to loosen immigration rules, etc. This is also the case with the European right/far right, the Australian far right, and anywhere else in the world that has historically been built on systems of white colonization, white supremacy, and other racial and legal scaffolds of privilege and exclusion. The white people who come to a country and settle it are bringing "civilization" and therefore should be welcomed and encouraged, but the non-white people who already lived there are "savages" and need to be exterminated for the good of the "master race." If they try to come back to the (white) nation state after their homelands were colonized, moreover, they are "invaders" who just want to "soak up the money of hard-working citizens" and etc etc.

The core fascist hatred of immigrants is also why Trump is directly echoing Hitler's anti-immigrant rhetoric with his "poisoning the blood of America" screeds, his promise to round up and deport migrants en masse, and otherwise be as massive of a dick as possible. The fact that there's no economic benefit and indeed a lot of economic pain is entirely beside the point. Trump and his deranged followers like the cruelty and the idea of torturing brown people for daring to come to "their" (white) America, and think that if they can be outrageously monstrous enough, this will finally deter all the other ones from coming. It won't, and no globalized economy will run without immigrants, but again, this isn't the point. Reality or pragmatic calculations have nothing to do with it. It's only about what can cause the maximum amount of cruelty and chaos to everyone who doesn't wholeheartedly worship and fit the (white) fascist model. That's why the Republicans yelled about wanting a border bill before they'd fund Ukraine; the Democrats obligingly gave them one with some of the toughest restrictions in years, and the Republicans yelled and threw it away because Dear Leader Trump told them to trash it. In some sense this is a good thing, because it meant that Ukraine got funded without being beholden to performative partisan cruelty at the border, but it also shows that they don't actually care about any of this. They have bluntly stated in so many words that they want a manufactured crisis at the border so Trump will have it as a campaign issue. Then he can take office and implement all his terrible concentration camps and all the other genocidal fascist bullshit of Project 2025 (bUt bIdEn iZ thE wOrsE oPtiOn!!!!!)

So: yeah. There's no point looking for any actual consistency or logic in the modern far right, because that is so far from the actual aim. No matter if migrants are essential, no matter if Americans literally won't take many of the jobs they do, etc. I live in a big city that has had a ton of migrants coming here and have read many, many news articles about how all they want to do is get a work permit, make their own money, learn English, and integrate into American culture; they are often far more positive about the prospects of America than actual Americans. But because the entire project of a (white) fascist ethnostate as advocated by Trump and co. in America, the Tories/Reform in the UK, and the far-right European parties, Russia, and other places (this is all connected worldwide -- again, it's not limited to one country or region), rests on demonizing (brown) immigrants as subhuman scroungers who come to rape, murder, steal jobs, and otherwise threaten (white) law-abiding citizens, that will always win out above every single other consideration.

[cartoonscientist]

white supremacists claim to love European culture but they strip away all the whimsy and weirdness and residual Paganism from the individual nations and ethnic groups and homogenize everything into a vague Anglo-Germanic nuclear family 1950s dairy commercial where the clothes aren’t even interesting and there isn’t a straw sculpture or carved antler in sight

[limeadeislife]

I oppose the Israeli state in its current form, and the way it was founded.

But I've noticed, when people argue about Zionism and Ashkenazi Jews immigrating to Palestine before 1947, a lot of the arguments seem to boil down to "were the Jews who migrated an oppressed minority facing white supremacist violence, i.e. they were the good guys, or were they privileged white Europeans colonizing land inhabited by people of color, i.e. they were the bad guys?"

And as far as I can tell, the short version of the answer is that the world is, in fact, not always that simple. Race and privilege and power in Europe and the Middle East in the first half of the 20th century were just not that homogeneous and simple

[shu-of-the-wind]

as a prison abolitionist, it is a complicated thing to digest the feelings i am feeling about hearing that enrique tarrio (leader of the proud boys) got 22 years in prison.

do i think this man needs to be punished? yes.

do i think that 22 years in prison is a reasonable punishment? no.

do i know what a reasonable punishment is for his actions? no.

do i think that him going to prison and being subjected to one of the most inhumane and disgusting prison systems in the world, and placed directly into contact with the aryan brotherhood, one of the largest white supremacist gangs in the world, is a good idea? no i don't think that either.

i'm just feelin some type of way man i don't even know rn.

[thedragonboi]

I’m gonna go to white supremacist events and lace the food with MDMA, adderall and LSD

[underestimated-heroine]

every time quora pops up in a google search, it's some shit like this, and that's why i can't fucking stand Quora

[quietroadkill]

oh btw

fren/frens being used on 4chan in this context does have a meaning that people should know

We already know he’s a loser with a bunch of sock puppets kissing his own ass but this still got a chuckle out of me.

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Leftists will claim so much but refuse to see that America is and has always been racist and refuse to see that Democrat and Leftist policies failed across the board. Instead they will bully black men and women and twist their arms to blame and gaslight black people.

America has been racist. And it always will be...

[qqueenofhades]

The obsession with whitewashing American slavery is deeply fascinating and horrifying to me. Like yes, there was slavery in pre-colonial Africa! It was also in Asia! And the Americas! And in *gasp* Europe too! White people also enslaved other white people! (Not that we ever hear about it though… gotta vilify people of color as savages!!!) But those forms of slavery haven’t had far reaching ramifications to this day the same way American slavery has, screwing over a continent and the people who were enslaved and left a plethora of racial stereotypes and systemic racism that still harms people today. It’s that simple. Unlike Greek slavery and Roman slavery and even pre-colonial African slavery, the ramifications of the transatlantic slave trade and American slavery are STILL ongoing, and I don’t get why it’s so hard for the right wing to understand this.

I mean, I've written a lot of posts about this, but this is the basic essence of it. It's not that they don't understand it, it's just not profitable or useful for them to do so, so they don't. Besides, they don't think it was a) actually that bad or b) that anything should be done to redress the results of that badness in modern-day life, because as far as they're concerned, that was and is what black people deserve and they don't understand why everyone is making such a fuss about it.

And yet there's some tiny withered part of them that does know they need to come up with an excuse that sounds even remotely close to what ordinary people believe. That's why they're going in with DeSantis' "let's teach that slavery was sometimes good for black people actually!" bullshit and followed it up with "the Holocaust was good for Jews actually," because there's no epochal, stain-on-humanity atrocity that cannot be usefully revised in the diseased little minds of White Supremacist Moral Self Righteousness. Alas.

[gaogaigoatgrrl]

there is actually a very good reason for this

the tl;dr, cutting out the jargon, is that in times of crisis fascism offers cool-looking* iconography, uniforms, architecture, military parades, etc. as a substitute for the real structural change that would actually meet the needs of the masses (while intensifying existing oppressions in order to extract wealth and labour from minorities and scapegoat them for its own failures). it's all surface-level, but it is an integral part of the fascist political strategy.

*your mileage may vary

A reminder!

[vague-humanoid]

[punkeropercyjackson]

Me @ Batman fans who for years have been saying they do mega popular crossovers with white/nonblack characters of the Batboys because 'black hair and blue/green eyes is the Batkid look' as the reasoning it's 'not racist' but completely ignore Miles Morales who's not only a Jason Todd kinnie with a canonical Red Hood Variant but also Miles G literally has green eyes:

[sxnshxnxxnddxxsxxs]

i really feel like we don’t discuss enough just how deep jkr’s white supremacy goes

like it’s way more than just:

cho chang’s name

almost every black character being tall and sporty

kingley’s name

the goblins

the house elves

the only south asian thing about the patil twins being their names

there’s way more but those are the talking points that are usually discussed in the white supremacy context of jkr’s bigotry.

but there’s something else that i find to be particularly insidious which i don’t see that many conversations about.

so for context when i did my a level i had had to research late 19th century pseudoscience because i was studying gothic literature. and i came across things like phrenology and the criminal mind and honestly it feels like jkr discovered these theories and just ran with them.

as a quick explanation phrenology is the theory that by studying the shape of someone’s skull you can see if they’re predisposed to criminality and lombroso’s criminal mind is the theory that criminality is hereditary and you can tell by observing someone’s physical features. it’s also the general consensus in both these theories that someone with physical ‘defects’ or deformities’ will be predisposed to criminality which also makes them incredibly ableist.

both are incredibly eugenicist and white supremacist theories because they’re essentially saying that you can tell if someone is inherently good or bad and thereby whether they deserve to be alive/within society/treated as equals by looking at their physical features.

they are both complete bullshit pseudoscience with no real basis in fact.

now where this comes into hp and jkr is that the antagonists and the villains of the series are disproportionately described as having these very negative physical characteristics.

like the very obvious one is voldemort with no nose and being snakelike.

but also the way peter pettigrew is described.

“His thin, colourless hair was unkempt and there was a large bald patch on top. He had the shrunken appearance of a plump man who had lost a lot of weight in a short time. His skin looked grubby, almost like Scabbers’s fur, and something of the rat lingered around his pointed nose, his very small, watery eyes.” (poa ch 19)

like the man is literally being compared to an animal (yes i know it’s implied in the lore that the longer one stays in their animagus form the more traits they take on but the point still stands).

then there’s marcus flint who as far as i remember is literally just a minor antagonist.

“Marcus Flint was even larger than Wood. He had a look of trollish cunning on his face as he replied” (cos ch 7)

like she really has a thing for comparing people to animals which is a very common tool in white supremacy for dehumanising people.

and then there’s greyback

“a big, rangy man with matted grey hair and whiskers, whose black Death Eater’s robes looked uncomfortably tight. He had a voice like none that Harry had ever heard: a rasping bark of a voice. Harry could smell a powerful mixture of dirt, sweat and, unmistakeably, of blood coming from him. His filthy hands had long yellowish nails.” (hbp ch 27)

now admittedly it’s slightly different with greyback since jkr is very openly saying in the narrative that he’s less than human and too dangerous for society because jkr only believes in equality for muggleborns and no one else.

but as is stands there are so many examples some big some small of the physical descriptions of villains and antagonists having negative connotations. the reason that it’s so insidious is because this is a children’s book series. and children soak up information like sponges including the implication that the further you are from the beauty standards the worse of a person you are (something that is reinforced by society). then when you place that in the context of the west where hp is most popular then it becomes the further away you are from whiteness (the western beauty standard) the worse of a person you are.

it seems like a really small thing which is why i don’t think it gets discussed nearly as much as the more overt things but even the small pebbles can have large ripple effects. besides i think think it’s incredibly important to discuss every aspect of jkr’s bigotry.

[itsallgoingtopot]

Image id: a manga style drawing of a blond haired brown eyed girl wearing a school uniform holding up a sign that has been edited to display this text "The gender binary cannot be separated from colonialism & white supremacy. Colonizers used it to portray indigenous people (who often did not fit its rigid norms) as underdeveloped savages"

[anghraine]

Politics vent, though not about specific politicians:

It is wild to have conversations about White Poverty in the US and the desperate straits in which conservative white bigots allegedly live with left-wing white people who have never ever been poor. It seems like they just can't process that creative/literary people like J and I could conceivably have grown up in actual for real poverty and ... idk, it feels very patronizing (and frustrating) at times.