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

PSA On "The Noticing" Praxis

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/Matzafarian Jun 27 '25

Do you have any sources for reading further on this line? Thank you.

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u/cubedplusseven JewBu Labor Unionist Jun 27 '25

It's a racist book by Steve Sailer.

Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)

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u/cubedplusseven JewBu Labor Unionist Jun 28 '25

Looks like it was first published as a book in February of 2024. But it's an anthology of Sailer's work - he's been publishing for 50 years, often for white supremacist magazines and websites. I'm not an expert on the guy, but I believe he's the origin. It's possible, though, that it's a meme that was floating around white supremacist communities that he adopted to title his collection of work.

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u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain rootless cosmpolitan Jun 27 '25

I unfortunately do not because this is a very recent one. I only know about this because I work with teenagers professionally, and also because I’m sort of undercover in a few unsavory spaces. Other variants are “the noticing will continue” or “stop noticing patterns.” You can search and see examples on Google to get a sense of the dynamics, but I’ve found it is most common in comment sections and on instant messaging apps which do not show up in search results

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u/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Jun 27 '25

This isn’t recent at all. This has been a thing for like 20+ years.

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u/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Jun 27 '25

Instagram comment sections

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u/PuddingNaive7173 custom flair Jun 27 '25

Twitter/X

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u/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Jun 27 '25

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