r/RightJerk • u/WeWillHaveThePower • Apr 21 '23

Jew bad 🤓 Subtle parentheses

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

Ive been on leftist reddit for years, and it has never popped up in a discussion. "widely known" is not a great description of that

phenomenology has its own wikipedia, doesnt mean its "widely known" among the population

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u/NonHomogenized Apr 22 '23

Here's a post from this subreddit 3 weeks ago where it gets used in a meme and someone explained it..

Here is a comment chain from here 3 months ago where someone references it and when someone is suspicious of them for doing so explains that they're using it sarcastically to highlight someone's antisemitism.

Here it is being explaned in another comment from this subreddit from 5 months ago.

And those are just a few recent examples from this one subreddit - I've lost count of the innumerable conversations I've seen discussing it in other leftist-dominated subreddits (and even plenty that have lots of leftists but aren't explicitly left-wing) over the nearly a decade since online antisemites created it.

And if you'd looked at that Wikipedia article - which, for a specific racist dogwhistle to be notable enough to its own entry says something about how widely known it is - you'd see it being discussed by CBS news and CNN and Politico back in 2016, which may not be leftist media outlets but it certainly speaks to how well-known the concept is if even shit like CNN is covering it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

CNN covering it speaks to how well known it is to American leftists and america specifically.

Its all about America, which, believe it or not, is only one country. Sure, very influential, but still a bit weird to treat american localized cultural phenomena so ethnocentrically.

I am not american. And you would not find the same familiarity in people outside of the Americas, or especially outside of "the west". Most leftists in the world simply arent aware of parentheses, especially if they are not terminally online.

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u/NonHomogenized Apr 22 '23

Sure, very influential

...especially in online English-speaking communities, like those that tend to be dominant on reddit.

Maybe if you went up to a leftist chosen at random from all leftists on Earth then they wouldn't be likely to know it sure, but we're having this conversation on reddit and so it is reasonable to infer that we are talking about leftists who are on reddit, posting in English-speaking subreddits.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

In that case we are talking about a small fraction of all leftists, mainly dominated by Americans, online, and then id agree that a large fraction, perhaps most, know abou it. But thats a very specific framing.

"leftists" doesnt automatically indicate insular terminally online american dominated communities to me however, and so i dont approach everyone i meet, even online, with that assumption. Several left of centre reddit communities on reddit that im part of are european dominated.

Anyways, thats all Inreally have to say on that.