Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by danso on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @08:13PM
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Uh. No, the Chrome extnsion had long been booted by the time this tweet came along. The meme is that Jewish folks and their allies would intentionally put "(((" and ")))" around their own names as a show of solidarity against this purported targeting. But the implicit meaning of those triple parentheses is, "this person is Jewish". Are you suggesting that the Wikileaks tweeter was just throwing that symbolism out there randomly?
Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by jandrese on Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:12AM
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That doesn't make much sense either. Certainly Jews wouldn't be itching to put a metaphorical Star of David on their usernames? Historically that was not a good thing. I can see why Neo-Nazis would jump on it, but it seems strange for members of the community to voluntarily brand themselves in such a way.
I just got why it is six parenthesis though, just like the 6 pointed star.
Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by bbctol on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:04PM
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It's a way of fucking with neo-nazis in turn. The three parentheses were originally meant as a sort of euphemism or code: rather than be publicly anti-semitic, people would put the parentheses to highlight how often Jews were being heard from, the idea being that once you notice the amount of Jewish voices around, you'll think this can't just be a coincidence (hence the name "Coincidence Detector.") It wasn't meant to be something those not in the know would get.
Jews putting three parentheses around their own names is a way of saying "I see what you're doing. I'm onto you." And non-Jews doing it is just to mess with them.
Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by mywittyname on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:46PM
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Not really. The Chrome extension has kind of catapulted the idea of "(((name))) == jew" into internet nomenclature. But since isn't quite into popular culture yet, it holds this juxtaposition of being unambiguous, but with plausible deniability.
"I didn't know this dog whistle made a sound."
Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by jandrese on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:48AM
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If you didn't know a device was a dog whistle then that would be a perfectly valid statement.
Re:WikiLeaks Has Officially Lost the Moral High Ground
by mywittyname on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @12:59PM
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Right. Hence the plausible deniability.
Calling that tweet anti-Semitic just doesn't make sense. It reads like someone trying way too hard to turn a molehill into a mountain. I'm guessing if we look through the history we'll discover that the people attacking him on Twitter had changed their usernames to include the parenthesis.