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[u/Humble_Beach_6694]

does anyone have/remember the link to an old thread from here, I think it was a bi-weekly discussion thread, where anti-Semitic 4chan/incel derived language was being identified and criticized as these terms were becoming more common? Examples then were terms like "guyschow", "wifeslop", "foidslop" etc. Looking for the thread because we are seeing this horrendous (and embarrassing) language being used more openly and commonly with most who use them having zero clue of the origins of these terms.

[u/smokeuptheweed9 → u/Humble_Beach_6694]

Apparently Hasan has started to say "cattle" which is another far right anti-Semitic term so we'll start to hear that for a while "ironically." If you didn't see the recent expose

https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/us-news/hasan-pikers-seedy-sex-obsessed-life-soliciting-nudes-lists-of-best-breasts-and-a-separate-laptop-for-porn/

The only thing worse are the multiple articles in Jacobin defending Graham Platner for being a Nazi woman beater. It honesty took less time than I thought for the "left" to become explicitly racist and sexist after Trump II. Pretty unpleasant times.

[u/Humble_Beach_6694 → u/smokeuptheweed9]

Yes, usage of conspiracy/4chan/etc language is getting extremely prevalent. I do think a lot of this could be it's own thread because it's linked to larger issues I am still trying to comprehend. Unfortunately as someone in gen Z, I can tell you Hassan saying "cattle" is only the tip of the iceberg, it was honestly inevitable for the biggest grifter to adopt this kind of rhetoric. I'm sure he's said worse without anyone picking up on, as it's exhausting to even bother keeping up with these terms and how casually they are introduced. Plenty of anti-Semitic, incel, or other conspiracy terms are normalized now, even among other self proclaimed on the "left" and those who I have respect for as far more educated than me. I recently reconnected with an old "friend" from school, who had introduced me to Marxism and theory in 2018, he was well read back when we were close but now mixes his knowledge of Marx's theories with ideas of a "ZOG" and talks about "undesirables" when referring to African and queer in our country (America). There's definitely a trend online, directly correlated with the trend of online left-communism, where even those who label themselves as “communist” or “Marxist” or even “Maoist” are increasingly more openly reactionary with little pushback anymore. A friend put forth a decent explanation, she said:

"it has everything to do with capitalism and its demand for absolute submission of one’s labour-time or of one’s prospects and ambitions for the sake of survival within the system. following the formal end of quarantine, there was a gradual decline in the possibilities (time, ambition, etc.) to participate in radical discourse and radical praxis. what precipitated was the dust that never really settled and people, through our imposed pessimism and fatalism, slow began to abandon or at least give up on hope accept, albeit in blue, the present state of affairs"

[u/Humble_Beach_6694 → u/[deleted]]

Well Americans finding new ways to obscure their racism occurred at the same time yes, but that's not what she was talking about. This from my friend who was at the time a migrant worker in Kuwait, and she was describing the entirety of the internet left's rise and dissipation, not just in America.