Cardposting's Humanities Appreciator's Discussion thread - We are Cardstock and we stare directly into your eyes unblinking and uncomfortably close

[Dicksmash Turbofist]

Should this thread move to prospering grounds?

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Nice! More people have posted and more Card videos have dropped. I will warn you! They are not for the faint of heart! Card has started adding in "after all, knowing is half the battle" which may scare and confuse longtime viewers.

Indoor Farmer​

How is it racist? Anti-Semites will use indoor farming as a way to mock Jews by saying things like "the egg Merchant fears the indoor chicken farmer or the fishmonger fears the bathtub carp farmer". The indoor famer dog whistle is "popular among wannabe right-wing commune militia Homestead at types where the food Merchant is a stand-in for the archetypal Jew in the reactionary imagination". Don't laugh now because "it might sound silly to have it explained like this but it's actually some pretty Sinister stuff ". Do not farm indoors or you will be put on the bigot list!

Pregnant Anne Frank​

How is it racist? 4cahn Nazis once wrote about in a different timeline, the confederacy won the US Civil War and a confederate soldier saved Anne Frank from the Holocaust, married her, and knocked her up.

The bigotry is so obvious that it doesn't need more explanation. If you see someone talking about a confederate soldier saving Anne Frank from the Holocaust and then marrying and impregnating her then it's best to block, report, and move on. Protect your safe spaces, today!

Bad Holocaust Math​

How is it racist? Bro. Don't question the Holocaust. It is 6 million dead Jews who were killed in death camps. Do the numbers look weird/impossible? Do you think it's highly improbable that "2,103,840 minutes in 4 years therefore assuming the Holocaust camps were capable of running without any Interruption 24/7 for the full four years that would mean you'd have to kill then presumably cremate and dispose of two or three Jews a minute to meet that sort of number"? Well that's because you're a Nazi sympathizer and probably a science denier to boot! Neo-Nazis claim that this is "infeasible" but they are wrong because the Nazis were so evil that they were able to break time-space just to kill six million Jews. There is no other answer and he doesn't even try to humor Nazis by providing a counter narrative. Card leaves us with on final rhetorical that I think really hammers home the point. "Suppose we had fifteen ovens in four different kitchens all baking cookies and that it takes an hour to bake each batch of cookies if we had all our ovens going nonstop how long would it take to bake 6 billion batches of cookies?" I stand in awe of his wisdom.

World's Fair​

How is it racist? Racists will post old, black and white photographs of the World's Fair. "See because everyone in vintage photos of world fairs are in suits and there's a lot of wealth on display the far right thinks that this is proof that the entire past was way better than the mo than the modern day and that the Jews or people of color or letting women vote or whatever has made Western Society worse somehow and they post pictures of old world's fairs to prove this" Wanting to go back to that time or lamenting about "what they stole from us" is not progressive. Do not look at pictures of the World's Fair. Do not respond to pictures of the World's Fair. Report pictures of the World's Fair to mods and keep your safe space safe.

Should this thread move to prospering grounds?

I made this thread purely to talk about his videos. Dropping the cardstock keyfabe, I find his videos incredibly fascinating. He is a literal robot who does the same exact thing in every video. You can cut out maybe 50-70% of his videos due to his constant repetition. The rest is like a summary of a wikipedia article about some ancient meme or joke that he explains poorly. I don't know who he's doing this for. He was doing this long before we found him. He is so hyper fixated on beating the cyberbully bigots that he's made his mission to become an encyclopedia of dated humor and not subtle at all jokes. If someone wants to make a person thread on him, all the power to them. I just care about seeing that frizzy hair and hearing "Hello there".

Gunter said it's a pedo book, but I haven't read it myself. It personally sounds like bullshit to me...but again, I really want to believe he's /ourguy/. I need to rewatch Gunter's seething about Card's history on /lit/ so I can contribute something with more substance. I will report back soon. I'm so convinced that Card knows what he's doing, and he's probably delighted that Null covers him sometimes.

Man I don't know about that. I have watched almost all of his dog whistle 101 videos and he does the same exact thing in every single one of them. He comes off as a turbo autist to me. If he's doing a long con then he is perfected character acting in a way that Andy Kauffman and Jace Conners could only dream of. I am open to your theory about him and if I'm wrong and he is some kind of savant doing this all for a laugh then I will cheer him on even harder like the Cardstock I am.

 

[SFWA Person of Interest]

Man I don't know about that. I have watched almost all of his dog whistle 101 videos and he does the same exact thing in every single one of them. He comes off as a turbo autist to me. If he's doing a long con then he is perfected character acting in a way that Andy Kauffman and Jace Conners could only dream of. I am open to your theory about him and if I'm wrong and he is some kind of savant doing this all for a laugh then I will cheer him on even harder like the Cardstock I am.

To be clear, he is one-hundred-thousand percent a mega autist, homo, leftie weirdo. I do think he's got a sense of humor about it, though, and he knows a good grift. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if any...dog whistles...crop up in his videos.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

I'm such a retard that I use two words to express perfection in media: Absolute Cinema.
Card is such a towering intellect and awesome Chad that he uses one: "Kino"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9knVBo0vLpc

"Kino"​

How is it racist? Well "anonymous image board websites like 4chan and 8chan are home to a lot of far right-wing people who use something of an ever evolving Cannon esoteric memes to communicate". "Kino" (we use quotes around "kino" because it's such a dirty word) is a term that /pol/, the most racists of boards, coopted from /tv/, the slightly less racist board. This means that anyone who uses "kino" is some form of racist. "Kino" is also the German word for movie/film which makes it racist inception. "Now, granted, "Kino" is sometimes used genuinely or innocently and it might even have some purchase as a term used online nowadays by people who might not be familiar with all of its associations but it could be a red flag." Are you willing to risk your safe space on that chance? Can you afford to roll the dice on possible bigotry? The answer is obvious.

To be clear, he is one-hundred-thousand percent a mega autist, homo, leftie weirdo. I do think he's got a sense of humor about it, though, and he knows a good grift. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if any...dog whistles...crop up in his videos.

lol then that's on me for misunderstanding you.

 

[Sargon_poster]

"BANE"​

Another banger from Card. No idea how this is anyhow racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NFsCa-EvfI&ab_channel=Cardposting

I made a little fan edit.

 

[Caligura]

"BANE"​

Another banger from Card. No idea how this is anyhow racist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NFsCa-EvfI&ab_channel=Cardposting

I made a little fan edit.
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Apparently Bane is supposed to be a stand-in for right wing terrorists or something like that. But I don't get it because if you actually watched the Dark Knight Rises he can be interpreted more as a left wing terrorist especially with how he targets the rich bankers in Gotham City which is basically not-New York lol

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

A new dawn breaks and a new Card video is upon us.

"Current Year"​

How is it racist? Filthy chan users will say "it's current year" to mock liberal arguments. "The phrase "It's current year" began as a way of mocking a strawman version of liberal political commentators arguments by suggesting that a lot of leftwing rhetoric is nothing more than invoking the passage of time as justification for advocating progressive measures." Never mind that John Oliver was the one who first made it popular to say "It's X year". As a matter of fact, ignore that last sentence and do notice that so you can realize that racists are mocking John Oliver and other progressives who took the position of "it's current year" as a talking point. The channers are so evil with their bigotry that they use 2016 as their placeholder for THE current year. "It should also be noted that this meme started appearing on image boards like 4chan and 8chan around 2016 uh and when people still use this meme today a lot of the time what they'll do is treat 2016 as the perpetual current year so, for example, they might refer to 2024 as current year plus 8." It needs to be said that this topic is so complex that our beloved Card spent 2 minutes and 13 seconds out of a 4 minute and 24 second video explaining what a dog whistle is so you had proper context to why "current year" is so vile. Cardposting is such a chad that he realizes how silly this all is but he knows that this job MUST be done!

"Saying all this out loud, dispassionately makes it sound very dumb and it is."

I am Cardstock and I will keep the fires that Card has lit the way for burning for all others to see.

 

[soulgains]

Its only a matter of time before cardposting puts on Joker makeup and starts saying nigger. This guy will have a schizo crashout and I can't wait to see it.

 

[Caligura]

A new dawn breaks and a new Card video is upon us.

"Current Year"​

How is it racist? Filthy chan users will say "it's current year" to mock liberal arguments. "The phrase "It's current year" began as a way of mocking a strawman version of liberal political commentators arguments by suggesting that a lot of leftwing rhetoric is nothing more than invoking the passage of time as justification for advocating progressive measures." Never mind that John Oliver was the one who first made it popular to say "It's X year". As a matter of fact, ignore that last sentence and do notice that so you can realize that racists are mocking John Oliver and other progressives who took the position of "it's current year" as a talking point. The channers are so evil with their bigotry that they use 2016 as their placeholder for THE current year. "It should also be noted that this meme started appearing on image boards like 4chan and 8chan around 2016 uh and when people still use this meme today a lot of the time what they'll do is treat 2016 as the perpetual current year so, for example, they might refer to 2024 as current year plus 8." It needs to be said that this topic is so complex that our beloved Card spent 2 minutes and 13 seconds out of a 4 minute and 24 second video explaining what a dog whistle is so you had proper context to why "current year" is so vile. Cardposting is such a chad that he realizes how silly this all is but he knows that this job MUST be done!

"Saying all this out loud, dispassionately makes it sound very dumb and it is."

I am Cardstock and I will keep the fires that Card has lit the way for burning for all others to see.

how the fuck did he not cover any hyperborea memes yet?

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Hello there, fellow whites!

"Fellow Whites"​

How is it racist? Let me tell you huwhut! It is so racist that Card takes a full minute and thirty-eight seconds explaining what dog whistles are so you can hopefully comprehend how racist "fellow whites" is! To get to the heart of the matter, I'll just quote Cardposting himself in full:

"To this end, one of the ways alt-right types will attempt to signal their reactionary beliefs to one another, without most normal people catching on, is through the use of the particular phrase "fellow whites" or "fellow white people". This is a sarcastic way that a lot of online reactionaries will allude to supposedly disingenuous or performative social justice messaging which they believe, or at least claim, is a big problem. The phrase is meant to refer to the way anti-racism advocates supposedly subvert people's interests by discussing racial issues in condescending ways. Like a lot of, like a lot of stuff the online right-wing does this is dumb and in reality no progressives are going around talking like this or claiming to speak on behalf of all white people this is a problem that online reactionaries have imagined for themselves but this is a way alt-right types signal their beliefs to one another."

So if you see someone saying some form of "fellow whites" or posting one of those giant ass collages of a (((progressive))) calling theirself white in some tweets and then calling theirself (((progressive))) in other tweets you need to be able to recognize alt-right messaging and signaling like this so you can spot it denounce it explain why it's wrong and bad to others and remove the people posting the sort of stuff. I am cardstock and I recognize fellow whites!

 

[Randy Facalding]

how the fuck did he not cover any hyperborea memes yet?

They weren't around back when he used 4cuck in like 2014

To this end, one of the ways alt-right types will attempt to signal their reactionary beliefs to one another, without most normal people catching on, is through the use of the particular phrase "fellow whites" or "fellow white people". This is a sarcastic way that a lot of online reactionaries will allude to supposedly disingenuous or performative social justice messaging which they believe, or at least claim, is a big problem.

He didn't even get this one right. I thought this one was about ashkenazim/sephardim being Schrodinger's Honky:
"Fellow whites, we suck ass"
"Ackshually I'm not white I'm Jewish"

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

He didn't even get this one right. I thought this one was about ashkenazim/sephardim being Schrodinger's Honky:
"Fellow whites, we suck ass"
"Ackshually I'm not white I'm Jewish"

Card purposefully goes out of his way to not mention Jews because he knows that even humoring cyber bully bigots' dog whistles is basically endorsing them. Card himself is not doing any subversion because he's one of the good guys. Cardposting is super tensai genius-kun and knows actually talking about the specifics of the dog whistle is more trouble than it's worth. My brain can barely contain the simplified knowledge he doth grant me.

 

[Dicksmash Turbofist]

His intros are getting more long-winded. It's like he's filibustering the start of his own video.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Rise and shine, fellow progressive activists, because it's a new day full of Cardposting!

Coal Toll​

How is it racist? You have no idea, bro! It's so racist that Card spends 2 minutes of a three minute and twenty-eight second video explaining dog whistles so your stupid fucking CHUD mind can begin to comprehend it. Anywho, racists are afraid that non-white men are stealing their white women so they made up this idea that blacks are violent and will beat white women. "The alt-right seeks to justify their bigotry by falsely claiming that for instance black men always beat their wives. Uh pointing out that this assertion isn't backed up by anything real and that in all other instances most of the alt-right thinks misogyny is good would be slightly besides the point." You see? It's so racist that you don't even need to back up your own point against the coal toll!

Oil Down the Drain​

"Hello there! I see you pouring oil down your sink. Allow me to spend 37 minutes explaining to you why that's bigoted."
How is it racist? After two minutes and twenty seconds of glorious intro script reading, Card explains to we plebeians that racists from 4chins and 8chins like to show pictures of jugs of oil being poured down drains! This is a bad thing to do as Card explains "See in real life in general it is not advisable that you pour oil into drains oil can solidify in Wastewater collection pipes causing potentially damaging blockages which can be very expensive to fix and additionally if oil gets into the broader water system it can contaminate the whole thing and cause environmental issues". Thank you John David Card for illuminating this widely unknown truth that when you pour cooking oil into a drain it solidifies and causes blockages. Racists feel nothing for the good of others and will post pictures of oil going down the drain to prove it. "Knowing this, it's a meme of sorts among online reactionary communities to post pictures of people intentionally pouring pouring oil into drains it's essentially a way for people to signal and affirm their disregard for the well-being of Public Utilities and the environment." That's why pouring oil down the drain is racist.

Humiliation Ritual​

How is it racist?

"This term is actually a reference to an online far right-wing conspiracy theory which posits that public figures like celebrities and politicians in particular are all actually performing coded acts of ritual submission to an unseen Global cabal virtually every time they appear in public. Why exactly public figures would do this is never really explained by anyone who believes in all this but people likely to use the term humiliation ritual supposed that it's all linked to some sort of symbolic initiation into elite circles. In actuality this is all just another manifestation of tired, old, largely anti-semitic tropes more or less just fear-mongering about alleged Jewish control of politics in the entertainment industry but veiled in such a way as to give anyone invoking the term just enough plausible deniability to wiggle out of being called a blatant anti-semite. Like a lot of stuff the online rightwing does this is dumb but using these sorts of terms and jokes is still a way alt-righters identify themselves to each other on all sorts of websites because it's the sort of terminology that isn't largely known to people outside of their own circles"

DUH and checkmate, bigots!

Klaus Schwab​

How is it racist? First you need to know who Klaus Schwab is. He's a German guy who started the lobbying group, the World Economic Forum. "Here's a picture of what he looked like the last decade or so."

"The reason so many internet reactionaries know who this guy is is because in the mythology of the online alt-right this man is the leader of the unseen, globe spanning cabal of elites who secretly run the world. Alt-right and Qanon types think this man is secretly the ruler of the world and they're invoking his name and likeness in order to show their hip to that secret." If anyone EVER points out that Klaus himself has bragged about infiltrating various governments with his own people publicly in front of cameras

STAY CALM AND BLOCK AND REPORT IMMEDIATELY! Only you can keep your safe space clean and clear of Nazi ideology!

Merry's Pipe​

How is it racist? Specifically, it is this image that is racist.

Online reactionaries will post this image with phrases like "imagine having a daughter" as a way to convey their misogynist and patriarchal worldview. "This all stems from from the right-wing belief that children are basically property and that raising a daughter that will quite possibly marry another man someday is putting in effort for someone else's benefit. It's all very deeply psychological stuff. This all sounds very strange explained out loud like this but this is a way alt-right types signal their beliefs to one another even though there isn't seemingly any particular reason this world view should be associated with a random image from The Lord of the Rings movies but it is now." That's it. That's all the explanation you dog whistling assholes get which is more than you deserve.

Robert​

How is it racist? If you see this stock image of a smiling black man

RUN for racism runs amuck in that thread! "Robert is a stand-in for all service employees and many people there will will write out baroque fantasies of verbally abusing him. This all ties into an attitude among the alt-right of showing disrespect to people who work sales and retail, who they largely consider to be inferior or uneducated people. The fact that Robert happens to be black also means that pol users will make a lot of racist jokes and compare him to The Smiling black Porter stereotype. It's essentially a stock image that image board right-wingers have appropriated into treating like a racist caricature." I love wagies! I love jannies! I get six inches away from their face so they can feel the heat of my passion for them from my breath as I tell them "Hello there! And make it a large!"

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Hello there! I am so far behind with my own Cardposting...is tardiness a dog whistle? Let's see if Card has a video on being late!

Wizards ​

How is it racist? Wizards is bad news, fellow progressives!

"One of the terms online image board reactionaries use in this way is Wizard which is a term they'll use to identify themselves and others. Wizard is a term which arose directly from incel forums. If you don't know, these are self-described, involuntarily celibate, misogynists and originally on Japanese incel message boards a wizard was any incel over the
age of 25 and younger incels would treat these Wizards with a sort of reverence. Eventually, the term made its way to English language, misogyny focused websites where curiously the age one becomes a wizard at was raised to 30 the term wizard is still pretty commonly used on a lot of image board websites like 4chan to the point where there's an entire spin-off site called Wizard Chan which as you can imagine use of the word is practically second nature over there."

The threat of wizards and Wizard Chan must not be allowed to propagate in your online communities. Any mention of wizards must be met with swift and harsh reaction.

I don't care how much of a bop this song is. It's secretly a dog whistle!

Indian Trains ​

How is it racist? This is such a big deal that Card spends a whole TWO MINUTES OF A THREE MINUTE NINETEEN SECOND video actually talking about the subject!

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the stereotype that Indians are commonly killed in train accidents and how this concept has become a contemporary reactionary meme, particularly in online spaces. Among the online, far right over the past few years it's become increasingly popular to be overtly racist towards Indians and in that time it's become more and more common for them to disparagingly stereotype Indians and attack the Indian people and Indian culture with memes and jokes and racist slogans. To that end, one of the racist stereotypes, which is commonly spammed by online alt-right brigaders at Indians online, is this idea that Indians are being frequently struck by trains as the result of their own misadventure. This is a stereotype that's born out of the fact that India is a country with well over a billion people and a fairly large amount of commuter rail infrastructure. Accidents do happen but overstating the degree to which Indian people get themselves killed in accidents is a favorite joke of sorts among the online far right. To that end, something that's gotten popular in recent years on image board websites like 4chan and 8chan is posting collages of fake news articles supposedly showing lots of examples of this happening and there is a shocking large amount of uh AI generated images floating around out there on sites like this purportedly showing Indian people playing around on train tracks about to be hit by trains. People referencing this stereotype are either doing so simply as really low effort online reactionary trolling or possibly they're just naive people who have essentially been fooled into thinking this is really a big thing, particularly if you see this sort of thing on a more mainstream website like Twitter or Facebook. If you happen to see people online parting this narrative that scores and scores of Indians are getting themselves killed in train accidents now you know the reason why. It basically all goes back to reactionary propaganda"

Well...sure Indians are getting ran over by trains all the time but pointing that out is something cyber bully racists do! There's a billion people in that country so OF COURSE they're gonna get splattered at a higher rate! You don't need to rub their noses in it! That's the same as redeeming, if you really think about it.

FBI Crime Statistics​

How is it racist? It's so racist that Card only needs a minute of your time to tell you.

"To this end, one of the ways far right types will covertly signal their beliefs to one another online is by invoking what they claim a real FBI crime statistics reporting to show that in the US black people are responsible for a disproportionate amount of violent crime. It's essentially a way for racists to call black people violent and savage and it's of course worth noting that no real American crime tracking figures actually support the assertion that black people over there are responsible for such a disproportionate amount of crime in the first place. But still, alt-righters like to believe that their bigotry is built on any sort of merited concern rather than just a reactionary fear of people that are unlike them so you'll often see them alluding to some statistical study or record of who's doing what crime in the comment sections of websites like Facebook and Twitter where more overt racism might get them banned."

When you see a racist posting FBI statistics showing how disproportionate violent crime is done by blacks, know that they're are both not reading those stats right AND are being covert about their racism. They are quite sneaky by showing charts that state directly that the black population commits far more violent crimes than any other racial demographic. All those graphs/charts/stats are completely made up anyways. Card said so and trust this man with my online safe space safety.

"JQ"​

How is it racist? It's so racist that Card needs almost 2 minutes of introduction to prep you for it's racism! It's so racist that Card only needs 30 seconds to progressive pill you on the JQ!

"To this end one of the more relatively simple, but most nefarious, examples of this is the term JQ which stands for the Jewish Question, a term lifted straight from Nazi Germany where it was essentially the euphemistic way Nazi High command would refer to the project of the Holocaust. To be redpilled on the JQ basically means to be anti-Semitic which is the sort of language alt-righters will use to hide what they're talking about if they're communicating or expressing their beliefs anywhere online that might be seen by regular people."

Much like the FBI crime statistics, someone going around talking about the Jewish Question is hiding their Nazism. You can never relax as there might be sneaky bigotry about!

"Dilate"​

How is it racist? It might surprise you that this one is not inherently racist! It's actually transphobic!

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the word dilate and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. Simply put, "dilate" or "go dilate" became something of an off color joke or meme on a lot of image board sites like 4chan and 8chan where, for a few years now, it has been used by reactionaries to mock transgender people, and transgender women in particular. The term "dilate" is derived from a crude misunderstanding of post vaginoplasty treatment that some trans women undergo following genital reconfiguration surgery but, its core, dilate is just a weak insult. Their use of the word is intended to reduce a complex and deeply personal aspect of transitioning to a crude or trivial talking point often as part of a broader strategy of marginalizing or dehumanizing trans individuals. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know what it means it might still be easy to miss so if you ever happen to see the word dilate somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know why someone is most likely trying to joke about trans people's struggles."

Whenever you see someone tell another transgender person, and transgender women in particular, to "dilate"

they are trying to lessen that transgender person's, and transgender women in particular, experience of genital reconfiguration surgery. Block, report, and move on. In this house we wear red pullovers, greet people with a "Hello there", and respect the trans community.

"Happening"​

How is it racist? It first got it's start in cyber bully bigot image boards like 4chan and 8chan and anyone who uses it knows about the lingo of those cyber bully bigot image boards and are thus 99 times out of 100 a cyber bully bigot themselves.

"To this end one of the ways alt-right types will attempt to signal their reactionary beliefs to one another, without most normal people catching on, is by invoking the particular phrase "it's happening", especially when the phrase itself is accompanied by or associated with pictures or gifts of the former US Congressman Ron Paul.

In this sort of context, the phrase "it's happening" and the images of Ron Paul associated with it are a meme of sorts among online reactionary communities where it is understood to convey a sense of nihilistic accelerationism by posters."

And that's all the explanation you get. Educate yourselves, fucking racists!

Bathroom Guardian​

How is it racist? You see this man?

This so called "bathroom guardian" is beloved by bigots everywhere for hateful heroics. You really need that 2 minutes of introduction from Card to gird your loins so you can absorb the full impact of how much hate there is behind the "bathroom guardian".

"To this end, one of the ways alright types will attempt to signal their reactionary beliefs to one another, without most normal people catching on, is through referencing or posting this man, the actor Cory Wells, as he appears in a 2016 Public Service Announcement about transgender issues. In the PSA Wells plays a transphobe who attempts to block someone from going into a public restaurant

and despite the fact it's a pro transgender PSA, once image board websites like 4chan and 8chan discovered it, they quickly took to celebrating and valorizing the actions of Wells's character. They called him the "bathroom guardian". In reactionary online communities, pictures of wells are now used as a common expression of transphobic sentiment and there's even loads of slick edits and mashups of the original PSA floating around out there online that have been made by these people. Therefore if you happen to see someone online posting pictures of this man all apropos of nothing it should register as a really big red flag. At the end of the day, it's just low effort transphobia."

These kind of slick edits and mashups should terrify you.

I know I lose sleep just thinking about the bigotry floating out there!

Welch's Jelly Pirates​

How is it racist? ...well I'm not sure. Not even Card is able to fully grasp the complexities of Welch's jelly pirates but he knows that it came from 8chan nerds which automatically makes it evil.

"To this end, one of the more obtuse ways alt-right types will attempt to signal their reactionary beliefs to one another ,without any normal people catching on, is through posting or alluding to images of 16th century style pirates alongside Welch's brand fruit jelly. Conflating these two concepts visually is a meme of sorts among online reactionary communities where it is understood to convey extensive knowledge of, and agreement with, uh the far right misogynistic, transphobic, nationalistic, anti-Semitic worldview. Why exactly it should be that these two seemingly random identifiers, piracy and Welch's jelly, isn't entirely clear. It could be purely arbitrary and abstract but it has been a way that the alt-right covertly signals their beliefs without other onlookers understanding what it means for some time now. Alt-right artist will draw images of pirates holding Welch's jelly or jars of the jelly alongside typical pirate accessories then these images will be reposted by social media accounts run by far right people who attempt to disguise how far right they are because the pictures will signal their beliefs to other far righters while most people don't realize the abstract images mean anything sinister, and especially since the advent of consumer AI image generators being available online, it's been easier than ever for internet reactionaries to make their own Welch's jelly and pirate themed images here's a brief montage of a few I've seen recently.
*shows off 30 different images of pirates with with Welch's grape jelly, spending a second on each image*
Note that many were AI generated, some were not, and a fair few incorporated other pieces of imagery popular with the online right such as Pepe the Frog and The Troll Face character. Now this all sounds very strange explained out loud like this but this is a way alt-right types signal their beliefs to one another. Even though there isn't seemingly any particular reason this worldview should be associated with such a random visual concept, it is now."

You frickin fricks! All you frickin racists and your frickin fantasies have ruined grape jelly! You frickin fricks just can't ever be quenched. Your fantasies can't ever be quenched, can they? When will you learn? When will you learn THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!?

"Then, One Day, For No Reason at All..."​

How is it racist?

"To this end one, of the ways alt-right types will attempt to signal their reactionary beliefs to one another, without any normal people catching on, is through invoking or alluding to the specific phrase "then, one day, for no reason at all". The ending of this phrase is understood among reactionaries to be something to the effect of "Hitler came into power" but by saying just the first half most people will remain ignorant of that but far right wing people familiar with the phrase will understand what is being said. The way this phrase is invoked by people on the far right is that they'll use it to sarcastically bemoan the state of society now by implying that the thing they're complaining about is comparable to conditions in interwar Weimar Germany and that the coming into power of a Hitler-like person would be expected and even tacitly justified. This all sounds strange and a bit abstract explained out loud like this but this is a way alt-right types signal their beliefs to one another and what they're signaling is a firm belief in the need of a far right figure to come in and wash away all the degeneracy they believe to exist in modern society. Therefore if you happen to see someone online invoking the phrase "then, one day, for no reason at all" all apropos of nothing now you know why and it should register as a really big red flag."

Having a Weimar Germany situation in your home country is actually a good thing and anyone saying it's not and trying to raise an alarm because it'll lead to fascistic take over of power ACTUALLY wants that to happen!

 

[Very_sad_man]

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Another day, another dump of Card videos BAYBEE! I honestly don't know if I can keep up with him.

"Do Not Redeem"​

How is it racist?

"it has become increasingly popular to be overtly racist towards Indians and in that time it's become more and more common for them to disparagingly stereotype Indians and attack the Indian people and Indian culture with memes and jokes and racist slogans. To that end one of the racist slogans which is commonly spammed by online alt-right brigades at Indians online is the phrase "do not redeem". This is a reference to an almost certainly staged, viral online video which frequently circulates in alt-right circles wherein someone purporting to be an Indian call center worker supposedly yells the phrase "do not redeem" at a customer. Suffice to say, firstly, videos like the afore mentioned are all staged for the sake of clicks and Views and AD Revenue, secondly, even if an incident did like like this did really happen ascribing impatience as a stereotype to an entire group of people isn't just racist it's also incorrect and anyone repeating the phrase "do not redeem" is doing so simply as really low effort online reactionary trolling. If you happen to see people online parting the phrase do not redeem all apropos of nothing especially in relation to something to do with India now you know the reason why and it should be a big red flag"

Dropping the Cardstock keyfabe for this because this dense, autistic, dipshit mother fucker thinks the Kitboga video of him scamming a scammer was completely staged and he thinks that the pajeet screaming DO NOT REDEEM is doing so to show the impatience of Indian people and NOT that the scammer just lost a lot of his own money and cannot get it back.

Holy fucking shit Card, you are fucking retarded. Did you even look into what the fuck you were talking about lmfao? One final note, the pajeet scammer doesn't "supposedly" yell do not redeem. He does it repeatedly. There's no supposedly about, you pseudo intellectual.

Holocaust Swimming Pools​

How is it racist?

"To this end one of the far right talking points that people will often attempt to jokingly bring up online is the idea that there were recreational swimming pools for the use of detainees at the Nazi extermination camps of the second world war like Auschwitz and Dachau. This is essentially misinformation designed to perpetuate the myth that the death camps were not as bad as conventionally reported which is itself a form of Holocaust denialism. This is a claim that neo-Nazis and the like have been making for decades now and they'll often claim to have photographic or video evidence of such swimming pools at the camps. In reality, of course, there were not any recreational swimming pools available to prisoners at the camps and pictures you might see presented as proof that there were are typically either deliberate fakes or intentionally mislabeled photos of normal swimming facilities elsewhere from the period or of the firefighting water reservoirs that many of the camps did have, for example. When people try to claim that places like Auschwitz had pools, either directly or jokingly, they're essentially just trying to downplay the conditions of the camps and their explicit function of enacting a genocide. The death camps of the second world war did not have swimming pools but if you happen to see someone online making an oblique reference to these non-existent pools or outright claiming that they were real now you know the reason why and you know why it's wrong and it should register as a pretty big red flag."

You hear that? All pictures of concentration camp swimming pools are fake and gay and any pools that were there were actually water reserves for fire fighters that just happened to be shaped like pools with ladders and diving stations.

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fire-brigade-reservoir-built-in-the-form-of-a-swimming-pool-propably-in-early-1944-gm1182275045-331920193

The title of this picture is "Fire brigade reservoir built in the form of a swimming pool propably in early 1944. Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. stock photo" so checkmate, bigots!

Broccoli Hair ​

How is it racist?

"To this end one of the coded terms online alt-right types will use to communicate with one another is broccoli hair. This is a disparaging way to refer to non-white, non-asian people who the alt-right considers to be racially lesser than themselves. The term broccoli hair itself derives from the appearance of cropped short curly hair that a lot of the online far right stereotype young black and mixed race people is all having. Calling people broccoli hairs or broccoli heads in this way was created on image board websites like 4chan and 8chan where it later spread to more mainstream like Facebook. It's simply just a term online reactionaries call people of color to avoid being noticed for doing more overt bigotry."

You may have thought that broccoli hair referred to any dipshit zoomer who got their hair cut like a mix between A Flock of Seagulls and Vanilla Ice

but that's because you are stupid and possibly racist because it's actually about capital B black people somehow!

Take this moment to admire the flowing locks of our beloved Card.

Glorious.

Cinema Falcons ​

How is it racist?

"To that end one strange meme poll regulars will use to communicate amongst themselves and locate one another on other websites is to reference the concept of falcons being kept at cinemas. Among 4chan users there's this old, long, surreal joke in which, long story short, basically the punch line involves the idea of having falcons roost in the rooves of cinemas in order order that they would eat the rats and mice which might come into the cinema at night to eat the discarded popcorn and other snacks which might be left on the floor but now this old meme is just something of a way for really hardcore, experienced 4chan users to reference something really oblique most people won't understand and you would need a lot of explaining to unpack the original context of the humor. That's why alt-right types started to reference it because it's something you would only know and recognize if you had been on 4chan for a while. So if you happen to see people online referencing the idea of falcons or hawks or eagles for that matter at a cinema it might sound like just a dumb joke but it's actually something they've picked up from being in some pretty noxious places online and they're likely referencing it in the hopes that someone with views similar to them will notice it and pick up on the fact they're familiar with alt-right terminology and likely at least sympathetic to their views."

Why didn't Sam and Frodo just ride the eagles into Mordor in the Lord of the Ring movies? Because that would be a dog whistle!

Skub​

How is it racist?

"To that end one of the old memes online alt writers use this way is the word skub which is a reference to a surreal 2006 web comic which became very popular on a lot of image board websites at the time. The comic itself is essentially about two groups of people who fight needlessly over the merit of a mysterious substance called skub, spelled S-K-U-B, but the comic's content is largely besides the point. The point is that this comic, as well as edits and derivative works based off of it, are still very recognizable today on image boards like 4chan, even though given the age of the comic and its limited mainstream appeal it isn't particularly widely known on the rest of the internet. Therefore 4chan posters, especially, will reference the scub comic as a way to identify themselves as being longtime users of the site. It's relatively simple when explained like this but it's something which would go likely unnoticed by the majority of people online."

You may think that this comic right here is pretty self explanatory and it's message/joke is pretty clear

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/

but you actually need a very high IQ to understand that it is, in fact, surreal. This is why you need to educate yourself, for the sake of you and the safe spaces you keep. Oh, and if you've ever seen this I guess it means you're a racist because 99 times out of 100 only racists have seen this...so...sorry for making you all racist.

Apple Visualization ​

How is it racist?

"There's this completely pseudo-scientific, faked fact going around lots of websites which appears to have originated on the image Board website 4chan around 2021 which which asserts that low IQ people can't vividly picture physical objects in their imagination. To demonstrate this, the faked fact is usually presented as part of an infographic or a diagram asking the reader how well they could imagine any given household object. This object is quite commonly an apple. The alt-right claims that anyone confused by such a prompt even if it's being asked of them apropos of nothing by a stranger online is mentally deficient. The online far right wing believes that most people alive today, namely non-white people, just can't properly imagine things. Suffice to say, this notion that some people's, indeed whole swathes of people's, imaginations simply don't work is pure nonsense and it all stems from the essential reactionary tendency to want to dehumanize people. Since thinking that someone is mentally lesser is just one step away from thinking it's okay to limit their human rights and these reactionaries just love to portray people of color as supposedly not being able to pass this imagination test. If you see someone online trying to make coy references to people not being able to visually imagine things, particularly simple household objects like apples, they're almost certainly a reactionary trying to make a veiled racist joke. It's just something to keep in mind. It's good to be able to spot these people so you can much more readily keep your community safe. It sounds like it's just a dumb joke but the people spouting off with this stuff could easily be actually dangerous people if you gave them a chance so you should know what all the telltale signs of the alt-right are."

This study? Right here and attached as a PDF? Conducted in 2015? About Aphantasia? Which was first looked into in 1880? By Francis Galton?

https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/21561082/Sala_etal_C_2015_Lives_without_imagery.pdf

Complete pseudo-science and fake because everyone knows that it came from 4chan in 2021. Card told me! I can't believe the few people that I've met who told me that they can't visualize and rotate an apple in their mind were actually dog whistling! You may also think Card is confusing and mixing this with the breakfast question but that's just because you're racist.

Nu-Male​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the term nu-male, spelled N-U-M-A-L-E, what it means and how it's become part of the contemporary reactionary vocabulary, particularly in online spaces. Describing someone as a new male is essentially a way reactionaries will mock a man for his perceived failure to be adequately masculine. You're essentially calling him weak and effeminate in a derogative way. The term itself is derived from the way in hardcore music circles modern heavy metal rock music has long been derided for being less intense and therefore less good than a lot of classic metal, hence the invention of the somewhat pejorative term new metal to describe a lot of modern rock that fits this perception. Similarly, a lot of Internet misogynists believe that modern masculinity has become too progressive or too emotionally open and has just generally drifted away from what they deem to be classic masculinity. Therefore they label people that they see fitting this mold of new masculinity nu-males. I wanted to make mention of it as a possible reactionary dog whistle, firstly, because it should be noted that the popularization of the term new male began on anonymous image board websites like 4chan and 8chan before it gradually spread to other websites like Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook a few years after that. It's a term that a lot of alt-right types will be familiar with owing to how frequently they tend to associate with image boards like 4chan and 8chan. Therefore someone using the term nu-male as an insult like that could be potentially a red flag in that they could quite likely have picked it up through being around those sorts of alt-right linked websites"

Behold! At 1:34 The Ghost of Male Past appears in Card's video to warn you of toxic masculinity!

This is a man that will call you weak and effeminate in a positive way. You may think that Nu-metal was originally not a derogative term but a term to classify a subgenre of heavy metal music which combined different styles of music into metal which would make Card look like a dumbass who doesn't know what he's talking about AGAIN but that's just your racism showing up AGAIN. Educate yourself more good, bigot.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

Double posting because my Internet was shitting itself hard and I didn't want to lose everything in a refresh.

Bond Burgered​

How is it racist?

"To that end one of the old running jokes online alt-righters use this way is to invoke the phrase Bond burgered or to post this image from which the phrase is derived.

This is a reference to a meme of sorts that began appearing on the image Board website 4chan in 2013. As part of this meme an image is shown which resembles a Rebus puzzle, a sort of pictorial riddle. The text of the image reads "last night I your sister" and we the viewer are are presumably supposed to fill in the blank there by interpreting the meaning of the inclusion of Pierce Brosnan's James Bond and a burger in the picture. Many people have attempted to suggest somewhat sensible solutions to the apparent puzzle here, often attempting to play off of the presumed innuendo of the phrase were meant to be figuring out. For instance some have suggested that we're meant to understand here that Pierce Brosnan was the sixth actor to play James Bond in a major film and that the burger pitched was, in 2013, the ninth item on the McDonald's menu. Six and nine. Therefore perhaps we're meant to believe this image's message is "last night I 69ed your sister". Others have suggested that the burger in question is actually one from the American chain In and Out Burger and that, alongside Brosnan. we're supposed to read it as "last night I pierced in and out of your sister" or "last night I pierced your sister's buns". In actuality there is no answer. The point of the meme is that it was simply designed to confuse newcomers to image boards where it was originally regularly posted. Someone would share the Bond burger image and all the forum regulars would privately make fun of people who tried to ascribe meaning to what is actually just random nonsense but that was all now more than a decade ago. These days, like I mentioned earlier, knowing all this and being in on the joke is used by a lot of online reactionaries to demonstrate their familiarity with old image board memes and therefore their familiarity with the internet spaces where the real alt-right has its deepest roots."

Encoding misoginy inside of confusing and apparently untranslatable image macros? What horrors will Nazis think of next?

Capeshit​

How is it racist?

"Simply put in the terminology of online, alt-right trolls and provocateurs Capeshit is an unfavorable way to refer to superhero themed media particularly given its relatively recent spike in popularity the term itself deriving from the capes which are typically part of superhero costumes. Now there certainly isn't anything inherently wrong with criticizing any given element of the entertainment industry, especially not the elements of it that are most transparently made in the commercial interests of major studios, however specifically Capeshit as a term is something which originated and became popular on a lot of alt-right adjacent image board websites like 4chan and 8chan where it has become a common piece of terminology among a lot of the trolls who frequent those sorts of sites and who have a lot of irrational disdain for anything perceived as being enjoyed predominantly by normal people. Therefore if you happen to see someone use this term online somewhere it's user is most likely a ne'er-do-wellwho's washed in from an image Board website and frankly you don't have to entertain the thoughts of those sorts of people. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary term in the world but if you don't know what it means it might will be easy to overlook. So if you ever happen to see the word Capeshit used somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know the reason why and it should register to you as something of a red flag. As with any dog whistle or obtuse reactionary internet term it does help to be able to spot these sorts of things so you can sus out any online situation properly which you can only do if you know what these sorts of terms and bits of iconography mean in the first place."

Superhero movies are enjoyed by predominantly normal people. You will consoom the super hero movie and clap when you see it. Any one who does not will be assumed to be alt-right and therefore not a person.

This episode of Dogwhistles 101 has been brought to you by the Bobmob.

"Acoustic"​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the word acoustic and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. In short, acoustic is one of the little coded terms internet reactionaries use to describe or label people they don't like which masks their actual meaning. Acoustic is supposed to be something of a word play on autistic which they'll use as a substitute for the that word itself if they're in a situation where openly or explicitly ableist language might see them face some sort of backlash. Reactionaries love to use the word autistic, or acoustic as is in this case, as an insult to demean others by implying social awkwardness or lack of social awareness and other attributes they stereotypically and inaccurately associate with autism. Of course a lot could be said about how insults like this are both harmful and ableist as it reduces a real complex condition to merely a caricature but I think it's also worth pointing out how acoustic specifically is a favorite term of abuse among the online alt-right. So if you ever see the term acoustic being used to describe people online for seemingly no reason, at the very least now you know the reason why and what sort of communities someone must be hanging out in on the internet where they might have picked that sort of language up. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know what it means it might still be easy to overlook. As with any dog whistle or obtuse reactionary internet term, it does help to be able to spot these sorts of things so you can sus out any online situation properly which you can only do if you know what these sorts of terms and bits of iconography mean in the first place."

Acoustic = Autistic. Get it, you neuro-typical ablists?

Dancing Israelis​

How is it racist?

"To this end invoking or alluding to the dancing Israelis is something a lot of reactionaries and anti-semites do. This is a reference to the far right-wing myth or conspiracy theory that on the day of the 9/11 Terror attacks groups of visibly Israeli men were seen dancing and celebrating around New York and New Jersey. This is supposedly proof that Israel and the Israeli people had some sort of fore knowledge of the event or that they found the attacks to be something to celebrate. Of course it should be noted that all the allegations of groups of mysterious dancing Israeli men were basically completely unfounded and there's no reason to think that any groups of random Israelis in the US had any connection to the 9/11 attacks or that any were seen celebrating anywhere in the aftermath. When reactionaries reference this trope they're just knowingly perpetuating very harmful, untrue stereotypes about Jewish disloyalty. Wo if you ever happen to see someone online try to bring up the specter of dancing Israelis, seemingly all apropos of nothing, at the very least now you know why and and it should register as a pretty big red flag."

Only anti-semites believe in "Jewish disloyalty"! It's so obviously Nazi coded that no one has dared question it or even told Card to sneed!

Take that, anti-semites!

Yellow Paint​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I want to talk about allusions to yellow paint in video games and how that's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. In short, describing a video game as containing yellow paint is one of the little coded ways that culture war reactionaries will attempt to signal their real beliefs without saying them explicitly or directly. Ostensibly, the term is a reference to the supposed dumbing down of video game mechanics to make them easier for a mass market. It's meant to be a nod to the trope of making particular elements within a game more brightly colored than their surroundings to make their importance or interact ability obvious to the player. However, of course, making certain gameplay elements stand out is just a part of game design that's been around as long as the medium itself has and when modern, self-described hardcore gamer types vocally complain about the presence of yellow paint in their video games they're actually using it as a veiled catch all way of complaining about the inclusion of all the little culture war bugbears they've been crying about since gamergate, like the presence of non-white and LGBT characters and stuff like that. If it's any consolation just know that the fact reactionaries are complaining about this stuff so much is proof that the entertainment in industry as a whole is becoming better on a lot of social justice issues and representation and the like. But if you ever happen to see people bring up yellow paint in video games somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know the reason why and it should register to you as something of a red flag "

All video games are bigoted, unless it's Dragon Age or Dustborn or Corn Stuck or whatever the kids are playing these day that's really gay, and if you point out that they put yellow paint with markers pointing you which way to go in remakes because people are too lazy/stupid to figure what to do

then maybe you should consider that the problem is actually you!

Bugmen​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the terms bugman and bugmen and how they've become part of the Contemporary reactionary vocabulary, particularly in online spaces. Describing someone as a bugman is essentially a way reactionaries will mock someone for their perceived conformist and consumerist tendencies. The term itself is fairly self evidently derived from a comparison to the way in which insects or bugs will often just mindlessly toil as part of a hive or colony doing what is expected of them without any real meaningful autonomy of their own. Now, crucially, it is worth noting that reactionaries aren't using this term to make any real substantive critique of the commercialization of our lives under capitalism like a leftist might. They're just reaching for an easy insult and I wanted to make a mention of of it as a reactionary dog whistle primarily because the popularization of the term bugman began on anonymous image board websites like 4chan and 8chan before it gradually spread to other websites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube a couple years later. It's a term that a lot of alt-right types will be familiar with owing to how frequently they tend to associate with image boards like that. Therefore someone using the term bugman as an insult like that could potentially be a red flag in that they could have quite likely have picked it up through being around those sorts of alt-right linked websites."

Can you even imagine how horrible these cyberbully bigots are in that they don't criticize capitalism like a leftist might? Now to get back watching super hero movies and recorder video essays on why I'm right for my youtube page.

Wooden Doors ​

How is it racist?

"To this end one, of the far right talking points that people will often attempt to jokingly bring up online is the idea that there will would doors on the entrances to the gas chambers at the Nazi extermination camps of the second world war like Auschwitz and Dachau. This is essentially misinformation designed to perpetuate the myth that the death camps were not actually built for the purpose of enacting a genocide, which is itself a form of Holocaust denialism. Neo-nazis and their kind claimed that the big structures at these death camps, which are commonly labeled poison gas chambers, were in reality all some other type of structure like barracks or a mess hole and that supposedly the presence of wooden doors which would not be airtight prove this. This is a claim that neo-nazis and the like have been making for decades now and they'll often claim to have photographic or video evidence of these wooden doors at the camps. In reality of course the gas chambers of the Nazi regime were just that, gas chambers, and pictures you might see presented as proof that they weren't are typically either deliberate fakes or intentionally mislabeled photos of other facilities, for instance. When people try to claim that places like Auschwitz had wooden doors on their gas chambers, either directly or jokingly, they're essentially just trying to dismiss the reality of the Holocaust and the explicit function of the third rights extermination camps and in order to avoid the backlash they'd get from explaining their entire Holocaust denying thesis out loud, when reactionaries and neon Nazis are trying to signal their beliefs to one another it will often be enough for them to merely reference the term would doors. So if you happen to see someone online making an oblique reference to the concept of wooden doors, especially in relation to Germany or the second world war, now you know the reason why and it should register to you as a pretty big red flag."

I'd like to see you prove him wrong!

"GOTIS"​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I want to talk about the acronym GOTIS, spelled G-O-I-T-S, and how it's become part of the contemporary reactionary vocabulary, particularly in online spaces. Simply put, in the terminology of online, alt-right trolls and provocateurs GOTIS stands for "girl on the internet syndrome" and it's a very common term in online misogynist and incel communities and what this "girl on the internet syndrome" is is a pattern of behavior which a lot of reactionaries believe essentially all women on the internet do wherein they perform for the attention and praise of boys and men and the reactionaries don't like that women supposedly do this thing they imagine them to all be doing. So this is the circular way internet misogynists try to rationalize their hatred of women, by claiming that they hate women for acting this way way and that their acting this way causes men's hatred of them. It's just the product of edgy, nihilistic, antisocial, online far right views and the people who parrot this phrase do so basically because they spurn women existing and feel personally aggrieved. If you see this term online somewhere its user is most likely a ne'er-do-well who's washed in from an image board website like 4chan or 8chan where, of course, the term "girl on the internet syndrome" or the obfuscating acronym GOTIS is very common. It's not necessarily the most subtle reactionary meme in the world but if you don't know what it means it might still be easy to overlook. So if you ever happen to see the term GOTIS somewhere online for seemingly no reason at the very least now you know why and it should register to you as a pretty big red flag."

The belief that there are women on the Internet is a controversial one but I trust Card and his enlightened guidance.

Smuggies​

How is it racist?

"To this end one of the more obtuse ways alt-right types will attempt to Signal their reactionary beliefs to one another, without any normal people catching on, is through posting a particular style of quickly and crudely drawn digital comic strongly associated with the image board website 4chan's infamous pol board. These comics, which are commonly referred to as smuggies by those who make them, are designed to be very rudimentary straw man representations of those with whom the comics creators disagree. Alt-right artists produce these things by the dozen very easily and post them often anonymously on image board websites like 4chan and 8chan where they subsequently make their way to places like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit here's a brief montage of a few I've seen recently.
*30 seconds of images like this that are on the screen for a singular second*

Note that virtually all of these follow a basic formula, presenting an exaggerated version of a political argument the alt-right disagrees with and presenting someone who would make that argument as a caricatural or stereotype in just one or two panels. The primary function of images like this as digitally spreadable political memes is just acting as low effort humor for the internet reactionaries who enjoy seeing the smuggy comics. As pieces of political propaganda, they present what are known as thought terminating clichés, where really reductive arguments are used to shut down legitimate lines of discourse. However, I also wanted to highlight them specifically as a form of reactionary dog whistle and not just mere face value propaganda because posting these does serve another function. They're silently signaling to those who see them posted that whoever is posting them is tacitly familiar with the sort of alt-right adjacent webs we sites and forums where these comics are made and shared because that's ultimately where anyone sharing one of these must have originally got it. If you post a smuggy you're not just saying you agree with the right-wing leaning point of the comic itself. You're saying you're in on the fact that actual hardcore, proper, neo-nazis and the like make and like these comics. Therefore if you happen to see someone online posting these smuggy pictures now you know why and it should register as a really big red flag."

Neo-Nazis hate discourse and these smuggies shut that down where as progressives love discourse and want to talk about uncomfortable things like crime statistics and puberty blockers. If you're questioning why someone posting these smuggies is a nazi who agrees with everything that Nazis do because they had to get this off of pol despite Card admitting that these are now everywhere, FUCK YOU! I'm drawing you as the virgin, crying wojak and Card as the Nordic gamer wojak!

Nose Check​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the term nose check, what that is, what it means and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. Simply put, the phrase nose check is a meme of sorts among posters on image board websites like 4chan and 8chan and it's a subtle nod to the anti-semitic canard that all Jewish people have very large and prominent noses and the way it's invoked is essentially that an online reactionary will comment "nose check" on or under the work of a progressive to essentially allege that they are Jewish and that their large or prominent nose makes this visibly obvious. This all ties into the old, far right-wing conspiracy theory that all progressivism is actually just a front for some grand, worldwide Jewish plot and that all progressives being secretly Jewish would be proof of this in the reactionaries minds. Of course, not all progressives are Jewish and not necessarily all Jews are progressive so the line doesn't even have any basis in reality but still throwing around the phrase nose check persists as a way of covertly calling people Jewish in a derogatory manner. At this point it's become a way for a lot of anti-Semitic image board users to signal their beliefs to one another on more mainstream websites like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit and YouTube without attracting a lot of attention from people who might otherwise notice that they're being anti-semitic if they said anything more explicit. So if you ever happen to see someone inexplicably commenting "nose check" seemingly apropos of nothing somewhere online you can basically be sure that they're just an anti-Semite who blames the existence of everything in life they don't like on an international conspiracy of Jews. Like a lot of the alt-right worldview it doesn't really make a lick of sense but as with any dog whistles or obtuse reactionary internet term, it does help to be able to spot these sorts of things uh so you can sus out any online situation properly, which you can only do if you know what these sorts of terms and bits of iconography mean in the first place."

Check out this nose, racists!

Handsome, dapper, and protecting safe spaces from the likes of you!

Sam Hyde Shooter Hoax​

How is it racist?

"Today specifically I wanted to talk about the Sam Hyde shooter hoax, what that is, and how it's become a contemporary reactionary meme and signal, particularly in online spaces. A lot of dog whistles used by right wingers online are simply old memes and in jokes from image board websites like 4chan and 8chan. The reason for this is that these sorts of pseudo anonymous, edgy online forums have been favorite online spaces of the internet savvy alt-right for as long as the alt-right has been a thing and therefore being able to readily quote and reference a bunch of old, obscure image board jokes has essentially become a way to demonstrate your extensive familiarity with sites like 4chan and 8chan and so on and if you know the meme culture of these sorts of sites then 99 times out of 100 that can be taken as meaning that you're also familiar with and likely sympathetic to the far right-wing political world view long nurtured there. It's not a big leap then that a lot of online reactionaries use knowledge of these old jokes and references as a way to signal their alt-right bona fides to one another anytime they're posting or commenting somewhere online where they can't be so open about their extreme and really nasty beliefs. If you say something obviously bigoted on a big mainstream site like Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or YouTube, people will notice and you'll suffer the consequences but if you couch your bigotry behind coded jokes only the other 8chan nerds will get you can find friends and spread your messaging without most normal people being any the wiser. To that end one of the old running jokes online alt-righters use this way is to insinuate that the comedian Sam Hyde is responsible for mass shootings and terrorist attacks and the like. Bit of background, Sam Hyde

is an American, absurdist shock humor comedian who is very popular with a lot of alt-right types online because of his willingness to incorporate a lot of relatively transgressive and often offensive material into his act and for a number of years now it has been something of a meme on image board sites like 4chan and 8chan to claim this comedian is the person behind any and every tragic event which pops up in the news to the point where 4chan and 8chan users will regularly attempt to spread misinformation suggesting this online after such an event using Sam Hyde's name and image, basically attempting to start a hoax and convince normal people that this is the person responsible for any given bad thing that's recently happened. Associated with doing this, in particular, is the phrase "he can't keep getting away with it", implying that, in this case, that Sam Hyde is responsible for every incident he's ever been associated with in this way. At the end of the day, as dumb as this all sounds, repeating these sorts of memes is still a way alt-righters identify themselves to one another. So if you happen to see people referencing the comedian Sam Hyde online in relation to some event in the news all apropos of nothing now you know the reason why and it should register as a pretty big red flag"

99 times out of 100, Card can beat up all the other 8chan nerds and Sam Hyde and he will get away with it!

 

[Miller]

He covered the yellow paint?! Why?

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

He covered the yellow paint?! Why?

Racism?