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Saw that video with the cool old fridge and the first comment after the OP was ‘look what they took from us’ and my spidey senses started tingling. So I checked and it was not in fact an ironic deployment of the phrase; that person genuinely believes in all the related antisemitic conspiracy theories. And so does OP. And so do like. The next several commenters except for the last, who is just part of the trans witchy side of tumblr.
And I do wonder who was following whom for a post like that to break containment to people who so clearly do not believe anything OP does, but I also think its sort of an object lesson in how the ironic deployment of neonazi memes and related shithead phrases allows people who use them with sincerity to append those comments in plain sight without anyone in the subsequent reblog chain going ‘wait hey what the fuck.’
wait the “they” is supposed to be the jews???? i thought it was like. big companies who maximize profit while minimizing quality. ‘cus those fuckers ABSOLUTELY took amazing fridges from us.
genuinely did not know that was a nazi phrase, thought we were on anticapitalism with that one. thank you for letting us know!
yeah, unfortunately “look what they took from us/from you” is a neonazi dogwhistle phrase.
Often it does refer explicitly to jewish people, but I have also seen it deployed in reference to just about anything racists think has disappeared or gotten worse because of “globalism” or “diversity” or “political correctness” or “wokeness.”
It’s always those smug bastards with the roman statue icons.
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