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Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by pessimizer on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:55PM (#12736997)
It was pretty clear that the account was referring to the trend of Twitter users surrounding their own names with parens as a protest.

"Not only the denigration of the ((())) symbol but also the use of the term ‘tribalist’ to imply Jews is, of course, base racism, a particular racism that Putin shares."

The idea that the "denigration" of an anti-semitic symbol is itself "base racism" is bizarre. Saying that he's using the word "tribalist" to refer to Jews is just incorrect, because the vast majority of the people who surround their names with parens are not Jewish, just doing it in sympathy. Using this accusation to associate him with Putin is just propaganda.

I think the tweet was a bit of pointless adhominem after noticing that a lot of their prominent critics seem to be a monoculture of very similar types of people. It annoys me when Wikileaks tries to act cute and smartassy (which is often), and this tweet bit them in the ass. It was this same hubris that made Assange think he had suddenly become a hot guy when he was in Sweden. Watching the video of him dancing, you can see a guy who thinks that he's finally turned into a butterfly.

Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by notahacker on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @02:43PM (#12737427)
Sneering at people who make public gestures of opposition to anti-Semitic tropes as "establishment climbers" sounds like pandering to a particular form of base racism to me, assuming you do so intentionally. I'll concede that it's possible that Assange or whoever tweeted that was unaware of what the parantheses symbolised in a way that someone tweeting "Tribalist symbols for establishment climbing? Most of our critics have pink triangles in their avatar" or worse "Tribalist symbols for establishment climbing? Most of the our critics have yellow stars in their avatar" really couldn't claim (I bet most people not involved with political Twitter are clueless about the parantheses' meaning). But conflating a Jewish symbol with the age old conspiracy theory that the "establishment" is run by people that suck up to Jewish interests by accident is certainly unfortunate....

And it gets even harder to defend the @Wikileaks Twitter account from pandering to anti-Semitism after looking at several of the other tweets unearthed by this search... https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Awikileaks%20jewish&src=t...

Re:Ecuador Says It Still Backs Assange, but WikiLeaks Says I... by undersuit on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @03:35PM (#12737919)
>And it gets even harder to defend the @Wikileaks Twitter account from pandering to anti-Semitism

Oh yeah they are just rabid anti-semites. http://www.twitlonger.com/show/92hpnj

Your link shows completely normal use of the word "Jewish".