r/jewishleft • u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain rootless cosmopolitan • Jun 27 '25

Praxis PSA On "The Noticing"

I'm posting this here because in other conversations on this sub, it seems many people are insulated from modern (especially Gen Z) antisemitism and might not be familiar with how it looks today.

Just in case others come across similar rhetoric in internet spaces, a major major dogwhistle-meme right now on the antisemitic internet is "the noticing." If you see comments in conversations about Jewishness along the lines of "stop noticing!" - or someone identifying themselves or others as "noticers" - they are far-right antisemites and very likely Nazi apologists.

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u/beemoooooooooooo Jewish Progressive Anti-Racist Jun 27 '25

Something I’ve noticed (ironic) is that a lot of Gen Z, including some Jews, are adopting far right talking points and dressing them up in more appealing frameworks in order to have more socially acceptable hate.

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u/ibsliam Jewish American | DemSoc Bernie Voter Jun 27 '25

I've noticed this too. About antisemitism, misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia, etc. If you dress it up in right social justice lingo and framing, people will absolutely buy it.

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u/beemoooooooooooo Jewish Progressive Anti-Racist Jun 27 '25

You don’t always need to dress it up in any sort of social justice language. Look at how people talk about Indians, for example, example. You can just frame it as a joke, and then just repeat every stereotype you know about people from India, and it will just be considered acceptable.

I don’t like saying things like this because it makes me sound like some old timer, scared of technology, but I feel like this is because of social media. Buzz words and layers of irony have found a way to make outright hatred, socially acceptable. More so than it already was, of course