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It's easy to miss nazi/"alt-right" signifiers are if you aren't swimming in this cesspool all the time.

So this is going to be a running thread on what to watch for, with a special emphasis on vocabulary and symbols that should make you suspicious.

Let's start with a classic and a new variant: 88 and "HH" phrases like "honk honk."

They mean "heil hitler." H is the 8th letter of the alphabet, thus 88.

"Honk honk" is associated with the honkler and is often used "ironically" by alt-right trolls.

14, or 14 Words- short for "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

It's most common paired with 88 (heil hitler) as 1488.

The echo ((( ))) is used by nazis to imply Jewishness online, as in (((George Soros))).

A lot of Jewish folks have reclaimed it, btw, so seeing it on someone's user name often means they are defying nazis, not sympathizing with them.

"Sheckels" are both an ancient and contemporary Israeli currency.

White supremacists use "sheckels" to talk about Jewish money, and in particular the supposed secret Jewish monetary support they claim their opponents receive.

8chan calls top posts "King of the sheckles."

"ZOG" is short for Zionist Occupied Government" which is what white supremacists, especially nazis, call the US government (because they believe it is controlled by Jews, a la the "classic" anti-semitic conspiracy book "Protocols of the Elders of Zion")

"6 million" is a reference to the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. It's often used "ironcially" by Holocaust deniers, like this Texan Proud Boy here.

Zyklon B was the gas used in concentration camp showers. It's a common "ironic" reference point in the alt-right.

Just kind of... runes and viking shit in general should be a red flag?

They don't automatically mean the person is a nazi, but nazis love them some runes-- these ones in particular.

I'll highlight a couple, but if anyone wants to name more obscure ones I'll rt into the thread.

The othala rune is basically a crypto-swastika. When I say "nazi" I'm usually just talking about racist fascists in general, but actual capital N-Nazi neo-nazi groups often use othala as a stand-in for the swastika for "optics" reasons (more on optics later).

The life rune is another one of those Nazi-lifted runes. The original Nazis used it in connection with their mythology of a pure aryan/norse volk (folk), so you'll see it connected to that notion a lot.

"Volk," btw, is another capital-N Nazi favorite. It references that idea of pure aryan race (volk), and it's an especially popular reference for performative tradwives like Volkmom, who was part of that couple who vandalized an Indiana synagogue with swastikas.

Going back to rune/rune-like symbols, Capital-N Nazis (the originals and the spin-offs) love their sonnenrad.

So much so that they made it the "image not found" default pic on 8chan's /pol/.

Boomer nazis in particular love them some sun cross. It's the logo for boomer nazi favorite forum Stormfront.

Valknot is another norse symbol nazis like a lot. It's associated with Ásatrú (also called Odinism or Wotanism), a Norse neo-pagan religion that's extremely popular with Norse-oriented neo-nazis.

(As an aside, Norse neo-paganism has always concerned itself quite strongly with racialized, literal blood ancestry, versus other neo-paganisms that tend to stress spiritual ancestry. Not all Wotanists are nazis, but it's not a coincidence that the religion attracts nazis.)

RaHoWa = racial holy war.

It's the imaginary violent race war nazis predict is coming down the road. They think they'll be the white knights who defeat what they believe to be a Jewish-controlled government, clearing the way for a white ethnostate.

DOTR = day of the rope, a reference to the Turner Diaries, a work of speculative fiction imagining a RaHoWa scenario.

The Day of The Rope is a grisly end-game scene where perceived race traitors-- especially women in interracial relationships-- are executed by hanging.

Excerpt:

Thread continues here, with symbols and language that tends to be more alt-right than boomer nazi: https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1149011841277923328?s=19

"Tradwives" like Volkmom, incidentally, are basically nazi mommy bloggers. They're super-into the idea of being submissive to their man, creating pure white babies, and raising those babies to be nazis. They're often very back-to-the land and Pinterest-y.

Thread continues here: https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1149001607784423424