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[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (9 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 38 points 3 days ago (8 children)

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

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 days 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 days 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.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll be honest, I have no idea how this is related to Nazis in any way at all.

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

It's gaining popularity again right now because of the Chatbot Grok who has been using it.

The Nazi part is that the pattern seen is how "Jews are always in charge when something bad happens" or when grok said that it could tell someone was evil because they had a Jewish sounding last name and it was able to pick up on the pattern.

"The pattern" is just an obfuscation of classic neo-nazi talking points and is kinda like the Nazi version of "just asking questions" where something that seems entirely innocent on its face has a hidden, much darker, meaning underneath it if you look into it literally at all.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

Ah okay that makes more sense, thanks for the explanation.

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days 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

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