Res Ipsa wrote:But, if you want to be politically incorrect, why not go full swastika?
Lol. What is 'going full swastika'?
- Doc
Just put big ole swastikas instead of the parens.
ETA: And if you want to express your support of Jews who are targeted and harassed in this manner, you put your own name in triple parens. But since I know about it, odds are the whole thing's out of vogue anyway.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
What if you recognize Jewish influence on a topic, but don't align with Nazi ideology? Should we add hammer and sickles instead of parens? Or stars of David?
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:What if you recognize Jewish influence on a topic, but don't align with Nazi ideology? Should we add hammer and sickles instead of parens? Or stars of David?
the guys that started it wrote:"The inner parenthesis represent the Jews' subversion of the home [and] destruction of the family through mass-media degeneracy. The next [parenthesis] represents the destruction of the nation through mass immigration, and the outer [parenthesis] represents international Jewry and world Zionism."
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
"Obsession with a Plot" and the hyping-up of an enemy threat. This often combines an appeal to xenophobia with a fear of disloyalty and sabotage from marginalized groups living within the society (such as the German elite's 'fear' of the 1930s Jewish populace's businesses and well-doings; see also anti-Semitism).
Umberto Eco
It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener at war.
Some of us, on the other hand, actually prefer a religion that includes some type of correlation with reality. ~Bill Hamblin
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:What if you recognize Jewish influence on a topic, but don't align with Nazi ideology? Should we add hammer and sickles instead of parens? Or stars of David?
- Doc
Well, why do anything other than just comment on a topic? Unless you want to devise symbols for every religion, race, political party, country, state, etc. But then, why not just use your words? If you think something about Jews is relevant to a topic, then just say so and explain why.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:What if you recognize Jewish influence on a topic, but don't align with Nazi ideology? Should we add hammer and sickles instead of parens? Or stars of David?
the guys that started it wrote:"The inner parenthesis represent the Jews' subversion of the home [and] destruction of the family through mass-media degeneracy. The next [parenthesis] represents the destruction of the nation through mass immigration, and the outer [parenthesis] represents international Jewry and world Zionism."
Thanks for explaining. If those parentheses were ever funny, they certainly aren't now.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Chap wrote:Thanks for explaining. If those parentheses were ever funny, they certainly aren't now.
I've seen it branded about in a pseudo-ironic fashion across the web, or to represent a more general kind of conspiracy and I'd like to believe that may just be because they don't understand the original intent. Not unlike a lot of bigoted language, I would hope that pointing out those roots might discourage its use in the future.
Res Ipsa hit the nail on the head with the swastika comparison, I think.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
Conspiratorial Soros obsession on the right was the Koch brothers before there was a general awareness of the Koch brothers. It was a little more unhinged than the left-wing equivalent that goes on with the Koch brothers, but roughly of the same type of concerns and reasoning. Internationally, Soros conspiratorial obsession also exists and has a much more distinct anti-Semitic, "Cosmopolitian Jew puppemaster" flavor. It is overtly used by authoritarians as a scapegoat. These two seem to have combined into a new wave of anti-Soros conspiracy obsession in the US that we're seeing in the present. The alt-right cross-pollination keeps yielding bitter fruits.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if George Soros is funding the caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the U.S., amplifying a baseless conspiracy theory about the prominent Democratic donor days after an attempted attack on him.
Trump made the comments while speaking to reporters outside the White House.
“Do you think somebody is funding the caravan? Do you think somebody is paying for the caravan?” a reporter asked.
“I wouldn’t be surprised. I wouldn’t be surprised,” Trump said.
“George Soros? Who’s paying for it?” a reporter interjected.
“I don’t know who. But I wouldn’t be surprised,” Trump replied. “A lot of people say yes.”
I don’t know who. But I wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of people say yes. Keep in mind, Trump is making this statement after the attempted assassination of Soros with a pipe bomb. He makes these statements with no facts to back him up. He wouldn't be surprised. A lot of people say yes. He is still stirring the pot of Antisemitism with fear mongering.
Trump has made himself into the perfect Anti-Obama. Obama's message was hope.
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
