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Literally any mention of some supposed 'western civilization' or 'western culture'. Like just say the 14 words already, cause we all know that's what you believe in. Fucking coward

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 86 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"License and registration please" libertarian-approaching

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

"The reason I pulled you over..."

[–] someone@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

Using the word "complexion" to describe a neighbourhood, especially in combination with opposition to apartment building construction.

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago (3 children)

"Overpopulation" or any mention of not having enough resources is some ass-backward Malthusian mindset that usually indicates someone wants to do a culling of undesirables.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I hear that kind of take I always go "Yeah exactly billionaires use so many more resources than a normal person that they're not sustainable and they have to go". Strangely, so far nobody has agreed curious-marx

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[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Similarly, caring a lot about Epstein specifically, or generally talking about what the "elites" are doing without any class consciousness.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's a certain elementary school education that just encodes this shit on your brain. Everything is Euro-centric. Only the most lily white aristocrats get any kind of credit for progress. Phillip of Macedonia, King Louis XIV of France, and Winston Churchill are transformative historical figures while Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad, King Sejong the Great, and Ho Chi Minh barely merit a mention.

Is it any wonder why American students step out of their high school graduation ceremonies believing Cleveland, Ohio is the pivot around which the rest of the world turns?

One of the reasons a book like Howard Zinn's "People's History" sends so many college freshmen spinning sideways, despite it being barely a nudge off the center of the western oriented curriculum, stems from the degree to which public schools blind their students to any variance in historical perspective. These kids come out fragile as porcelain, and absolutely primed to shatter, given the teenage inclination toward rebellion and the ample evidence of their indoctrination.

When I hear someone say "Western Civilization", my knee-jerk response is to bring up something wildly outside their wheelhouse. Historical figures, events, and even whole civilizations they've never heard of. "Have you ever heard of the Phoenician alphabet? Because you're using it, kid. Your entire language is rooted in North Africa."

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Making sure everybody knows just how much you enjoy eating pork.

"Western/European/Judeo-Christian/[nation_adjective] values"

Having a football-related Twitter profile pic.

Supporting zionism.

That neighbourhood is dangerous!

"We have to look out for our own first!" (Proceeds to do fuckall to look out for "their own")

"We can't save the entire world"

"There has to be a consequence!" (When talking about how some racialised form of crime is not punished enough)

All forms of flag-shagging

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

A lifetime ago I was into fashy memes on 4chan so I got to learn the inns and outs of hating Jewish people. Anything like "oy vey" "goyim" or a -berg at the end of a last name can be a red flag you're dealing with an antisemite. Problem is now a lot of them have dressed up their hatred in more respectable politics by attaching themselves to the anti-zionist movement in the west. So you get chucklefucks like Jackson Hinkle who you think oh wow cool they're anti-Israel so their politics must me good but nope.

[–] vtctechadmin@vegantheoryclub.org 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was raised as a haredi jew and I will never stop saying oy vey, you can pry that from my cold dead hands.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a good term, I often use it too as an agnostic lol, sometimes it's oy vey for other time jumpin' jesus christ!

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

Oy vey sounds really appropriate for what it's expressing. I use it for minor annoyances all the time. I throw a shalom down I stead of 'hello' as well but that's in the pile of hello and goodbye in different languages that I kinda just grab from

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

when a white guy complains about taxes

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

Or inflation, any time someone talks about economics like it's a kind of magic that (((certain people))) can control for some reason is a bad sign.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

'kek' is a major red flag, but isn't definite proof. Sometimes idiot liberals add the wrong words to their vocabulary.

Knowing too much and at the same time not enough about Romans is also a big red flag.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Years ago I had an apartment neighbor who had a kek flag in his window. I talked to him exactly one time in which after telling him I'm a musician he went off about how the music scene in our city sucked because a bunch of people beat the shit out of him in the pit at a hardcore show lmao

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Guarantee this idiot was standing dead centre of a karate pit and got bashed or he did something that made people kick the shit out of him. You don't generally get your ass kicked at hardcore shows unless you've done something to earn it, this isn't the 80s

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Similarly, "fren" and "fella" is enough for me to garcia-cock-shotty

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Fren” is the big one to watch out for.

The optimist in me says a lot of “fellas” are misguided liberals who’s hearts are in the right place and just need to be talked to.

[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Kek could just mean they played World of Warcraft. Which is worse. gamer-gulag

[–] batsforpeace@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

ascribing everything to George Soros and 'the globalists', complaining about 'the lgbt agenda', warning about the 'impending fall of western civilization', complaining about there being too many immigrants and talking about civilizational incompatibility, suggesting shooting at boats with migrants in the Mediterranean, calling liberal politicians communists, trying to redeem Francisco Franco

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

they use seasons like they're verbs. ie: we summered in switzerland or we wintered in mexico.

they like to imply that a majority hold their views: eg: "we're they're the silent majority" or identifying freedom fighters as "terrorists".

expensive hobbies are also a dead give away. eg hunting, 3d printing, photography, etc.

[–] Chronicon@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most of these things are only tangentially related if at all lmao.

except the middle line you're just describing wealthy people, who while they are class enemies, aren't just like, inherently, currently fascists. The only one I'd say is fairly solid is calling people terrorists but you do kinda get that from libs all the time, even unscratched ones

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Except for the middle, that's all stuff a normal rich liberal would do.

And those aren't even great examples of expensive hobbies, nowadays it's possible to find decent 3d printers for less than $100 if there's a sale (my 3d printer + phone + desktop + laptop are all only $20 above a new iPhone 16 from Apple), and rural hicks with relatively little income will hunt too.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, now polo or sailing, those are rich people hobbies

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Guys who refer to women as "females" but never refer to men as "males." 95% of the time they are reactionary af.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

”Mass immigration”, ”open borders” (obviously depending on tone) and ”unskilled migrants”.

Talking about Bill Gates, now obviously he's terrible on all levels, but Gates bashing is a reliable fash tell. Same goes for the Clintons.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

All of these come from the same guy:

"I don't think our black coworkers are people, they don't have souls."

"I'm eastern orthodox but only online, I can't go to the orthodox churches here because they're full of slavs."

"I'm not voting for either party because neither one is going to protect our people."

"I'm collecting these guns so i can protect myself and my family from all the minorities in the city when society collapses."

"You should read Hitler, he has good ideas and was censored for being right."

But this guy is also just weirdly open about being a fascist.

For most people it's stuff like suddenly becoming very religious but only for Orthodoxy or Catholicism, if they were raised evangelical or irreligious.

Being vocally uncomfortable with cities as a concept.

Talking about how bad crime is these days.

Making remarks about how you "can't do that anymore" or "you never see that anymore."

I don't think any of those are foolproof but they get the hitler-detector going.

[–] x87_floatingpoint@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"I'm eastern orthodox but only online, I can't go to the orthodox churches here because they're full of slavs."

How did he even end up like that? Eastern Orthodox, but hates the people of the east?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Online I guess? I think he likes that it subdivides by ethnicity (Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox etc.) but he considers himself a German/Aryan.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The word "thug", although I don't know how common that is anymore. "Femihitlerite" used to be a dead giveaway too, but you don't really see it anymore, wonder why thonk

Using adjectives that describe minorities as plural nouns, e.g. "the blacks" or "the transgenders".

edit: apparently the second one is so obvious the slur filter gets it, nice.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"thug" is still pretty common among older people. Just ask a white boomer NBA fan about draymond green to get instant confirmation

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Talking about gene pool or artificial selection to explain economic problems.

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[–] starkillerfish@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

in Europe its mostly "I don't understand why the workers have to strike every week" and being just overly annoyed about strikes even when it doesn't disturb their day

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"I'm not a fascist/conservative I'm a liberal :smuglord: "

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

When someone is telling a story about how some random stranger did some inconsequential thing that bugged them like cut them off while driving or had their shopping cart in the way at the store and they make sure to tell you the offenders race. They NEVER include it if it was another white person.

[–] CA0311@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

they don't have to say anything, you can tell by their upvotes

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Way too keen on the Imperium of Man or the Star Wars Empire or "humanity, fuck yeah" stuff in fiction.

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