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comradebanana:sighinastorm:sympathy-for-supervillains:sighinastorm:concentrated-sunshine:sighinastorm:social-darwin-awards:listener-blue:viredae:listener-blue:croagunksmile:listener-blue:proudblackconservative:fed-ex-official:proudblackconservative:People are roasting Sarah’s dumbass tweet mistaking a construction market for a swastika and it’s everything I could hope for There’s no way anyone could have mistaken that for a swastika. I hope she gets a load of these. I haven’t laughed this hard since that reporter took a picture of an earplug and called it a rubber bullet Clearly it’s Sarah Silverman that doesn’t have google.I want to believe she was making a joke cos she’s a comedian but dear lord there’s no way to really tell with her.Nah it wasn’t a joke. She’s backtracking now, saying it was a mistake having realised her own stupidity. That still doesn’t justify the ridicule, Sarah Silverman made a mistake, alert the presses.Oh I think it very much justifies the ridicule. For me, mainly for the ‘do they know how to use google’ having made no attempt to do so herself, and especially given all the ‘everyone I don’t like is a nazi’ rhetoric that’s flying around at the moment. No of course it’s not big news, it’s a passing amusement. But it’s still funny. Having said that, at least she admitted she was wrong. Many wouldn’t have.Except she wasn’t accusing anyone of being a Nazi – she was pointing out what she thought was Nazi graffiti, and when corrected (and not very politely) she gracefully posted the correction and justified her concern by comparing it to a real swastika, without trying to claim she was in any way correct about the construction marker. You know, like any normal person would. It seems to me that she is receiving undue scrutiny because she is famous and much of this hatred is probably a kneejerk reaction to her reputation. Her behavior certainly doesn’t warrant it in my eyes. I can’t really bring myself to care about her enough to jump on the bandwagon making fun of her for this, she’s Jewish, I’m sure it’s a legitimate concern for her.Quite frankly, I also can’t think of anything I’d Google to figure out what those were that would actually give me a useful answer if I’d never seen them before. “Sidewalk swastikas” certainly wouldn’t help, nor would “things drawn on road that look like swastikas.” Even “weird graffiti on sidewalk” only turns up results about actual sidewalk graffiti. I can’t fault her at all for needing to be told about this – particularly as the shape of a swastika is much more easily Googled, so she’s entirely justified, IMO.@listener-blueHow exactly would one google this specific symbol? Have YOU tried?“Strange orange symbols on sidewalk”, brings up a load of hits about such things being used to mark out various utilities under the ground, in this case some sort of telecoms line.Then again I remember this from the urban myth/scare about them being secrets marks by the Thieves Guild to steal your dogs and/or children a few years ago.A pretty common sight in most cities tbh.>this specific symbolNope.‘Strikethrough s’Which returns relevant fuck-all, even when specifying for street markings, graffiti, utility markings.Is it really an S, any more than it’s a swastika? Or does it just look like one, to someone who doesn’t already have a basis for assuming it’s supposed to be a zigzag indicating electricity, with a line indicating direction?If one was worried about it, you could always search for known symbols of white supremacy, or antisemitic symbols. I know you said you haven’t seen it where you live, but I assure you this is not a new or even an uncommon symbol. No sharp angles, the direction isn’t consistent, one line is completely straight ffs, I mean Silverman is probably more paranoid about random swastikas than I am but if a Nazi is this incompetent, he doesn’t deserve your fear. But I think Silverman isn’t quite that stupid, I think she saw a vague symbol while walking, and given the political climate she capitalized on sensationalism.Let’s go ahead that it’s not new or uncommon. But what is it? Is it something which should be recognized? Is it something for which the meaning would already be known?“You could always search for known symbols of white supremacy, or antisemitic symbols. […] No sharp angles, the direction isn’t consistent, one line is completely straight ffs”. You have circled back around to the originally Tweeted joke. -- source link