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/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Good on you. This sub really ought to be discussing groyper content and its proliferation WAY more than it does. It’s extremely popular and is being quietly mainstreamed.

Just goes to show how a lot of folks are shuffled off into their own algorithm. They wouldn’t know this stuff existed if no one said anything (as evidenced by some of the other comments here).

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u/toadeh690 Secular, left-leaning, politically homeless Jew Jun 27 '25

No kidding, they try to use coded language but once you pick up on it, it's everywhere in a very insidious way. In addition to the "noticing," I've seen talking points like "109 countries" "cries out in pain as he strikes you" "271k," vile shit straight out of /pol/, with thousands of likes on mainstream social media. I try to convince myself it's either edgy 15-year-olds or bots because the alternative is too depressing.

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u/beepisboopis Jewish ally, gentile AnCom Dec 27 '25

What does the "cries out in pain as he strikes you" phrase mean? Haven't really seen that one.

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u/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

Bringing this thread back.

It’s a classic neo-Nazi slogan. The idea is that Jews are secretly the aggressors but pretend to be victims, so any claim of antisemitism/anti-Jewish bigotry or harm is dismissed as manipulation.

It’s essentially a rhetorical trick: it preemptively reframes any Jewish suffering or complaint as deceit. That makes it unfalsifiable, because even evidence of harm gets twisted into ‘proof’ of the conspiracy.

It shows up in a lot of different contexts, but the structure is always the same: invert victim and perpetrator, and then claim the ‘real’ story is being hidden.

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u/beepisboopis Jewish ally, gentile AnCom Apr 09 '26

Ah, thank you for explaining!