I‘m assuming most of you have heard about the whole ((())) thing? The short version is that white supremacists on Twitter and elsewhere have started using triple parentheses around the names of people they know (or at least think) are Jewish.
Now some people (including me) have started putting parentheses around their own names, even if they’re not Jewish, in solidarity with those who’ve been tagged.
Apparently racist mass murderer Dylann Roof — he’s the guy who shot and killed nine black churchgoers during a prayer meeting a year ago — had some similar ideas about how to mark the evil Jews so everyone would be able to spot them at a distance.
I learned that from this lovely Tweet:
Or, for a more retro look, you could always use the classic yellow star.
That splash image looks like how i feel :s
The all encompassing conspiracy they’ve uncovered can be summed up as “some Jewish journalists have written unfavourably about neo-nazis once or twice”. Truly, we are through the looking glass here, people.
So who does that make Gargamel?
Dear white supremacists, (((you))) (((are))) (((STOOOOOOPID))).
I always think of the parentheses things as the people it’s used on are now snuggled safely in the folds of a vagina.
I still think of them as Internet Hugs and am like Can’t Hug Every Jew!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zlqfj_twilight-zone-four-o-clock-excerpt_shortfilms
I think we should use the triple-parentheses in lieu of asterisks for emphasis where BBCode and its like don’t work.
Sample: “I could eat a family-sized bag of Cheetos and (((shit))) out a better facsimile of a human being than Donald Trump.”
Excuse while i hijack this. I’m gonna start using ((())) on white supremacists on Twitter. I’ll start with (((Andrew Anglin))). Oh and i see David has already started using it. Gonna use it on my own name too.
This ((())) looks like an orgasm-having vagina.
Is it just me?!
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Minuteman movement founder convicted of molesting young girl
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20160608/35716f14-eb12-4aa3-a881-160571689cf7
Color me unshocked.
Hi, I’m (((Axe))). I’m not Jewish, tho I have the name for it 😛
Here’s the deal, slick. These people have been thru much worse than parentheses, not that you care. How do they even… oh yeah, Jews all look like 1930s Nazi caricatures. C’mon Twitter, if this ain’t harassment, what the fuck is
@Kat
I’m a little bit shocked…
…I really don’t understand how every Jewish people being blue for a day would change anyone’s mind about, well, anything? Is the white supremacist assuming that everyone would recoil in horror at seeing how many Jews there are around?
The extent of my reaction would probably be “…those people are blue. Is… Is there some kind of event happening? Is this a sports thing?” because I would more than likely have no idea why some people magically turned blue for a day.
To paraphase Groucho Marx: My dad’s a Gentile. Would I turn blue from the waist down?
(It should be noted though that my mom, though she had a bat mitzvah in her youth, didn’t practice Judaism except in a very secular way during my lifetime, and considers herself atheist now.)
Jews should be blue. Irish Catholics should be purple. Scandinavian Lutherans should be forest green. Unitarians ought to be rainbow-striped.
Can I be aqua? always liked that color.
Not to make light of a persistent evil, but the thing about anti-Semitism that offends me (besides the basic horror of hating other humans without any good reason) is how little imagination it displays. Oh, you hate Jews, and believe in a global Jewish conspiracy, and all that crap? That shtick was old when Martin Luther was around. Get some new material, if you must be a bigot.
catalpa: The idea is that we’d be shocked how it’s ~~all the elites specifically~~ who turned blue. The far-right memeplex is very big on what they love to snidely call the Coincidence (their caps) that supposedly everyone particularly rich, famous, or powerful is either Jewish or has a Jewish person in their close social circle.
soo… the thing that really kinda boggles me, from reading that excerpt, is the part where it says black people and Jewish people spend are just all the time thinking and talking about how they are black and Jewish, respectively. it implies that’s a big part of the “problem” with them… but… demonstrably, literally, white supremacists really DO spend a huge amount of time thinking and talking about being white…
Well, that’s easy to explain. White people talk about being white all the time because it’s natural for superior people to bask in their superiority. But jews and blacks doing the same? Yeah, it’s a real problem when the inferiors try to imitate their betters. /sarc
So… what color would I be as a pagan, since I’m polytheistic and worship a Greek god and a Catholic saint (so far)?
That reminds me of a joke in Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan. A main character is said to be half-fairy, and he says this about himself (paraphrasing): “From the waist up, I’m as pure as any fairy, but from the waist down, I’m as corrupt as any politician!”
My father-in-law is Jewish. I’m going to have to ask him if he thinks about being a Jew when he’s not telling the worst dad jokes ever. Also, he hasn’t practiced his religion in years, so would he turn fully blue or just take on a slightly bluish tint? I don’t really know if he’d actually count as “Jewish” since he’s obviously not attending those secret meetings at the local temple every Saturday or doing any networking. Do they allow lapsed Jews in on The Big, Old Jewish Plan to Take Over the World?
The fact that they revere Roof for what he did is the sickest part of all of this. Like they don’t go “Well, we’re doing this despite the fact that he is a mass-murdering, horrible person.” No. Instead they’re going “Hey cool, we’re doing something sort of along the same lines as our hero, Dylan Roof, who shot him some black folks a-prayin’!”
It’s…I don’t have any nice words for it. It is beyond disturbed. And I don’t mean to be ableist there. I mean literally in my opinion people who think and act that way are sociopathic because they are displaying a marked inability to empathize with the pain and grief not only of the victims but of their fellow countrymen and, indeed, of the international community at large which seems to have responded to this and other atrocities with overwhelming disgust and opprobrium, and rightly so.
Do you think that deeply ingrained racism and bigotry is a form of brain damage and/or psychological condition? Again, I don’t mean to lump people with legit psychiatric conditions in together with these jerks. I love and care for someone who has mental health issues of her own and recognize there is a wide variety of mental health disorders out there. I’m just wondering if this can be classified as one of them and, if so, what kind of therapy can we as a nation attempt to correct it?
In short, I don’t feel like the problem is getting better; rather it appears to be coming to a head, though perhaps that is preparatory to it being sternly dealt with by our system of jurisprudence (though with a hung SCOTUS that seems unlikely to happen at least until the next president is sworn in, ug).
I get in these moods where I just feel like there has got to be something we can do to make the world stop being awful to people all of the time, and I sit there thinking to myself, “Dammit, come one, you’re a smart guy. THINK of something. There has to be some way to show people how beastly they’re being to other people and how when the shoe is on the other foot it’s walking misery to bear the brunt of it.” I get frustrated that nobody seems to have a good answer to racism and hatred beyond simply shaming the person who does it and hoping that it goes away. Some of these hosers seem to get their jollies from being shamed and view it as persecution that vindicates how right and righteous they are.
So what do you do then? If you confront, you lose because they declare you to be evil for persecuting their opinions, but if you shrink back from confrontation, they declare themselves the winners. It reminds me of the section in Proverbs where it is written “Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own estimation.” Whatever your opinion of the bible, that says to me that even the collective wisdom of yore couldn’t figure out quite what to do with a fool.
Perhaps, then, the strongest force mankind has ever created is its own folly, and if that is so, perhaps in the final analysis we are all doomed anyway. Yikes. I hope that isn’t right because holy crap, what a bleak future!
@Brian LOL, but yeah, you don’t get that being white, unlike being black or jewish is a good thing! /s
@DS, leave the diagnosis wand aside, they’re just assholes.
As for how to deal with them, I like David’s mocking approach.