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[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I recognize the original, unmodified meme but I don't understand what the new (4th) panel is supposed to indicate. Could someone explain please?

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 33 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"seeing patterns" is a dog whistle for hating Jewish people.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

How to distinguish between normal talk about the topic and nazis? I'm confused, it's the first time I hear about this. This meme is ancient as well, although this specific variant makes zero sense to me.

[–] Maven@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seeing a pattern on its own is fine. The reason the meme turns into a racist dog whistle is the fact that the person was banned for it.

Something innocent like amogus (which is most commonly used in the meme) doesn't result in a community ban.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

Simple: it may sound innocent, but has a secret meaning behind it. 18? Hate speech?! You're crazy. That's just a number. Woke and DEI gone too far. Muh free speech

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Eh??? I never heard this one before.

I associated fourth slide with him blocking ads (tracing behavioural patterns) and being blocked by social media due to "violation of policies".

It’s an old dogwhistle that recently rose to prominence because of Twitter’s Grok AI. Grok started saying it could see the patterns of how every time something bad in the world happened, Jewish people were in charge. And that put it into the recent zeitgeist, so memes like this naturally started popping up.

The meme is basically saying “I was banned for blatant antisemitism, and now I’m doubling down by posting a meme about it. The ban has only served to reinforce my idea that Jews secretly control the world.”

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago

Thought it was Loss, turns out to be Nazis. Great.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago

OP, you're a nazi. I would advise you to [redacted because I'm not sure how much disgust I can express before I risk being banned].

[–] halvar@lemy.lol 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Almost missed the dogwhistle there, nice job

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] halvar@lemy.lol 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Some people say they "recognize patterns" of a disproportional Jewish influence over the world. Protesting this supposed conspiracy gets them banned from social media.

"Seeing patterns" without proper analysis and considering power dynamics is just tinfoil thought with misleading bite-sized statistics.

Unfortunately, the world is too complicated for such a simple approach.