Literally any mention of some supposed ‘western civilization’ or ‘western culture’. Like just say the 14 words already, cause we all know that’s what you believe in. Fucking coward
Talking about gene pool or artificial selection to explain economic problems.
To add to this: talking about, or having preoccupation with ‘homogeneity’ or Darwin, or competition
When someone is telling a story about how some random stranger did some inconsequential thing that bugged them like cut them off while driving or had their shopping cart in the way at the store and they make sure to tell you the offenders race. They NEVER include it if it was another white person.
in Europe its mostly “I don’t understand why the workers have to strike every week” and being just overly annoyed about strikes even when it doesn’t disturb their day
"I’m not a fascist/conservative I’m a liberal :smuglord: "
they don’t have to say anything, you can tell by their upvotes
Way too keen on the Imperium of Man or the Star Wars Empire or “humanity, fuck yeah” stuff in fiction.
Ya, why is that exactly? The “humanity, fuck yeah” stuff I remember loving when I was a young 4chan dweeb, but at some point it started to make me uncomfortable and I’m not sure why. I figured it was just the cringe of that trope being overplayed in reddit writing prompt suggestions, but there definitely could be something else there, related to in-groups or maybe the victimization makes it appeal to fascists. Idk lol.
I saw it on tumblr of all places.
These are just my related thoughts.
RPGs (both computer and tabletop) use “races” in a way that enables “race play” for comfortable middle class white kids. Orks in Shadowrun are “just” black people, but in the setting all the real life beliefs of the white hegemony about black people (more resilient to pain, gruff, high birthrates, bad at maths) are made real in the setting through the statline juking. “Humanity, fuck yeah” presents a safe, plausibly-deniable, way of being racist.
“Humanity, fuck yeah” also allows a racist to say “Oh, no, I love all races of humanity. Captain Anderson is black in Mass Effect!” while still engaging in exactly the same behaviours. Their eagerness to lean into the fantastical is a way of evading voicing any of their actual beliefs about their own position in white society.
It also reflects the fascist belief that some people are just born for greatness. Obviously, for the fascist, this is about the nation and local industrialists, but “Humanity, fuck yeah” leans into this belief without stating anything about particular groups of humans. Being part of the special noble ones (through birth) that will save humanity/everyone (through shedding empathy and “woke nonsense”, and engaging in ruthless realpolitik) is actually a pretty common fantasy/sci-fi trope and fascist rhetoric.
After a while, if enough fashy people lean into it, it becomes a sort of shibboleth, but more naturally formed than the OK symbol.
Not to say that anyone who is into “humanity fuck yeah” stuff or has posted it once is a fascist, it’s just something that I’ve seen crop up a lot and I’d consider a reddish flag.
“I’m a centrist” or “I’m a moderate.”
“License and registration please”
“The reason I pulled you over…”
Actually was just meeting a friend of a friend the other day and I was talking about rent prices, and they brought up “the illegals”
Gave em the ol’
As if an “illegal” would ever afford or want to live in their vegan liberal upscale apartment on top of a whole foods and an Orange Theory
Yeah this person literally sits on their local chamber of commerce
Using the word “complexion” to describe a neighbourhood, especially in combination with opposition to apartment building construction.
“Overpopulation” or any mention of not having enough resources is some ass-backward Malthusian mindset that usually indicates someone wants to do a culling of undesirables.
This is essentially the entire Scandinavian fash. Typically with some not so subtle eugenism thrown in.
“There isn’t enough room for more people here” when they live in a country that has over 38,000 golf courses and the average private suburban property is several times larger than the house that’s built on it.
If I hear that kind of take I always go “Yeah exactly billionaires use so many more resources than a normal person that they’re not sustainable and they have to go”. Strangely, so far nobody has agreed
Any time someone talks about how China or India has more pollution than the US, like to tell them that there are more people in those countries, so per-capita the pollution is much lower. And the majority of that pollution is produced by factories that make goods that are sold in the US. So it’s pretty much our pollution, we just outsourced it.
And China is rapidly reducing shit even with their larger population. While the US is still tip-toeing around even talking about proposing doing anything at some point down the line (of course such time is only “correct” after 99% of both parties get permission by their corporate masters).
There’s a certain elementary school education that just encodes this shit on your brain. Everything is Euro-centric. Only the most lily white aristocrats get any kind of credit for progress. Phillip of Macedonia, King Louis XIV of France, and Winston Churchill are transformative historical figures while Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad, King Sejong the Great, and Ho Chi Minh barely merit a mention.
Is it any wonder why American students step out of their high school graduation ceremonies believing Cleveland, Ohio is the pivot around which the rest of the world turns?
One of the reasons a book like Howard Zinn’s “People’s History” sends so many college freshmen spinning sideways, despite it being barely a nudge off the center of the western oriented curriculum, stems from the degree to which public schools blind their students to any variance in historical perspective. These kids come out fragile as porcelain, and absolutely primed to shatter, given the teenage inclination toward rebellion and the ample evidence of their indoctrination.
When I hear someone say “Western Civilization”, my knee-jerk response is to bring up something wildly outside their wheelhouse. Historical figures, events, and even whole civilizations they’ve never heard of. “Have you ever heard of the Phoenician alphabet? Because you’re using it, kid. Your entire language is rooted in North Africa.”
‘Globalists’
Similarly, caring a lot about Epstein specifically, or generally talking about what the “elites” are doing without any class consciousness.
Making sure everybody knows just how much you enjoy eating pork.
“Western/European/Judeo-Christian/[nation_adjective] values”
Having a football-related Twitter profile pic.
Supporting zionism.
That neighbourhood is dangerous!
“We have to look out for our own first!” (Proceeds to do fuckall to look out for “their own”)
“We can’t save the entire world”
“There has to be a consequence!” (When talking about how some racialised form of crime is not punished enough)
All forms of flag-shagging
“We can’t save the entire world”
While then going hard about how we “must” keep our troops everywhere in the world at all times.
A lifetime ago I was into fashy memes on 4chan so I got to learn the inns and outs of hating Jewish people. Anything like “oy vey” “goyim” or a -berg at the end of a last name can be a red flag you’re dealing with an antisemite. Problem is now a lot of them have dressed up their hatred in more respectable politics by attaching themselves to the anti-zionist movement in the west. So you get chucklefucks like Jackson Hinkle who you think oh wow cool they’re anti-Israel so their politics must me good but nope.
I was raised as a haredi jew and I will never stop saying oy vey, you can pry that from my cold dead hands.
It’s a good term, I often use it too as an agnostic lol, sometimes it’s oy vey for other time jumpin’ jesus christ!
Oy vey sounds really appropriate for what it’s expressing. I use it for minor annoyances all the time. I throw a shalom down I stead of ‘hello’ as well but that’s in the pile of hello and goodbye in different languages that I kinda just grab from
