ted (not lasso)
@ted
preface: i support jews; me asking this Q doesn’t mean that I don’t. i ask this genuinely, and i can’t be the only one confused. below is the exchange in which Kara/Scott/MSM say Elon endorses an antisemitic post. can someone explain how it is antisemitic? to me it reads as frustrated, but by no means hostile.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I find it most useful to think of racist language on moderated platforms as the apex predator of hate speech. I’ve seen it’s evolution from 4chan to Habbo hotel to YT videos to today and bc of platform filters any truly memetic message of prejudice HAS to be a plausibly deniable dog whistle You’ll never…
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
You’ll never catch terminally online obsessives using overt language (except in rare gotchas often screenshot from their perceived safe spaces online like discord) They’re too aware of how the internet works for that. Take this racist TikTok trend. Anytime black youths do something bad, you’ll see this…
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
And apparently Jewish people as well I’m just now finding out (see how pernicious it is?) How could a platform moderate these extremely common idioms getting repurposed for hate? The extremely online speak a quasi-secret language… https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/well-well-well-like-a-moth-to-a-flame-tiktok
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
And that’s fully on purpose. Unless someone is fully out of digital culture - I always assume they know what they’re saying. There are very few coincidences on the internet because the markets are so efficient. Elon is one of the most terminally online people alive and he intentionally says ridiculous things
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elle
@riotgoools
also i think dog whistling and coded language has actually escaped just being terminally online ppl especially due to it being used more and more in extreme political messaging and after a ton of ppl got online radicalized during lockdowns (see qanon pipeline)
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
yea also true - it’s been embraced by daywalker nazi’s
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