Even if I were born in 1988, I surely wouldn’t use the number in a username. Same if my initials would AH or HH.
Unfortunately most people are completely clueless about dogwhistles.
Which is exactly why they’re called dog whistles. It’s so only certain people (the ones in the know) are able to find the true message. The entire point is to signal solidarity and find like-minded bigots, without exposing yourself. Because they know that if they just come out and blatantly say it, they’ll face a lot of backlash. So instead, they hide behind dog whistles.
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Seconded, if I wasn’t married, interfaith I wouldn’t know even half the dog whistles.
Also, advertising concrete details about yourself in the most public field of a user profile
I made mine long before learning about the connection between “88” and the Nazis, and at this point, anyone who sees my username and immediately jumps to “nazi” is a certified moron.
What’s wrong with Humbert Humbert? A man with a poetic sould who did nothing wrong except shooting that guy (no, really, is HH a thing outside of Lolita?)
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Those of us who were lucky to get whatever email we wanted before everyone else got to the internet.
sudden concerns over username
Its not that hard to come up with a name that doesnt include random numbers at the end
Nah. I’ve had this username for over 20 years. I’m good.
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I am a dumbass and thought you were joking that you were 123 years old.
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It’s an honor to have an interaction with the oldest living person in the world!
Why yes, I was born in 1988 but luckily when I first started making usernames in middle school, I decided to use the random number 45 in them instead. Yup, good old 45, nothing awful or related to white supremacists associated with that number… Sigh.
I mean at least its when they lost.
There’s an orange fascist associated with that now
It took me a moment to realize it wasn’t about 1945
My friend’s birthdate includes both “14” and “88”. I also remember being much younger and the '88 kids were all about “double infinity”, usually stacked, and some even got it tattooed.
Damn imagine getting shit on for being born almost 500 years before most of that shit was relevant.
Also when I see a Black Metal band with “wolf” in its name
Music video of WW2 German marching song. Big anti-nazi disclaimer at the start. Then immediately the video starts to a swastika flag waving.
Displaying a swastika or other human horrors in a video/artwork doesn’t mean you’re promoting it (maybe it was in your example)
This was my favorite number until recently. I had no idea. Fucking nazis ruin everything.
Now, I’m horrified at all the times anyone might have asked me to pick a number between 1 and 100 before I knew.
I’m not going to lie. One of my old reddit accounts had 88 in its username. Not because of malicious reasons though. It was a random number I came up with since the username I wanted was already taken. I got banned from r/comicbooks for that despite proof that I was NOT connected with any racist content.
88 was a cool number, but then Nazis came and ruined it. It was the equivalent of drawing that S letter you all did in high school. Edgy cool shit. They ruined my birth year and back to the future, and the name of a band I played in when I was a teenager.
Also they are pieces of shit in every other aspect, of course, specially regarding, you know, humanity.
The pope just died on Hitler’s Birthday at the age of 88. COINCIDENCE!?
Also oh no, I just posted the 88th comment!
Hitler was born on the 20th though.
lol oh damn I thought he died on the 20th. But I guess it was technically the 21st.
88 is such a fun number to say, too. Nazis ruin everything.
88 is a really tasty ice cream in Sweden
So is Sitting Bull. Swedish confectionery isn’t terribly woke.
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Even its Bingo call is starting to look dated.
Chinese never cared, 88 is “double prosperity” to us chinese and it will never change. Western gatekeeping is annoying as heck.
I will continue to see and use 88 at weddings and assume wealth and fortune. If I’m in a room with white guys and guns I’ll see 88 as dangerous.
That’s fine. In the US, it’s a dog whistle for Nazis. It’s not gatekeeping when it is simply factual. There’s a giant facility off the highway here in Nebraska called “Tactical 88” (with a logo that’s quite literally based on a nazi symbol: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsadler) that is 100% a nazi training facility. They even have a giant billboard that says “free AR-15 for signing up”.
Fascists love to use it all over the place. So here, in this context, it has a very specific meaning. And when we are dealing with a fascist takeover of our goddamn country, we have every fucking right to tell Nazis using nazi dog whistles to fuck off.
Chinese folks live in the US too. There’s a popular Asian-american music label called 88 rising.
Right, everything is somehow going to offend someone. Honestly. I had no idea of 88 being offensive until a few years ago, and it was on Reddit/Lemmy echo chambers; I have never heard or seen 88 being used intentionally offensively IRL; I have never been made aware of it, anyway.
Yes, I’ve used 88. I was born in 88.
I think in Greek culture it’s offensive to “show your palms”/an open hand, they treat it like a middle finger. Americans accidentally do that all the time.
I want to say maybe 8 years ago now they tried to sound the alarm about the OK symbol (👌) being a dogwhistle for “White Power”, and they listed off a number of weak examples. And I think everyone collectively said shut the fuck up, nobody cares, the OK symbol is used everywhere & the great majority of people don’t use it to express “White Power”. How ridiculous.
Don’t ask for permission to do painfully basic things. They’ll take everything from you, they’ll take your 88s, your OK symbols, and idk anything else they feel like being offended about. I hear Nazis breathe oxygen & drink water. Damn, guess we need to stop that, too. Or maybe, just maybe…just don’t be a Nazi & live your life. ¯\(°_o)/¯
88 is not offensive. It’s a nazi dogwhistle. There’s a big difference.
I also assure you that Americans don’t do the Greek “mountza” all the time.
Cashier: That’ll be 11.88 Me: Whoa what the fuck
And what if I was?
My dad’s birthday is August 8th. He has used 88 in his email addresses since back in the old @aol.com days. I tried explaining to him that he probably shouldn’t but he’s loved the number 8 since he was a kid because of his birthday.
