so uh notch is just openly a nazi now
So glad this asshole has his filthy hands away from Minecraft. Gross.
Perhaps the only time in history that people have said “Oh thank goodness this small indie company was bought out by Microsoft!”
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A tweet by Minecraft creator Markus Persson (@Notch), which says “If we were allowed to discuss IQ differences between populations, there’d be fewer conspiracy theories.” in response to another tweet by user @Scrable that says, “@notch Do you love jews?”]
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A tweet by Minecraft creator Markus Persson (@Notch), which says “Then I am already silenced.” in response to another tweet by user RTX Mindset 2077 (@MindSetFPS) that says, “be careful of what you say or (((they))) will silence you”]
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Just in case anyone is unaware of what’s going on here, the tweets by Notch, pictured above, are examples of cryptofascism and antisemitism. I’m going to break them down in detail, just in case anyone who reads this isn’t aware of these kinds of problems already.
In the first tweet, Notch is referencing an old racist and antisemitic myth that people from different ethnicities have differing levels of intelligence.
I’ll cut short all the bullshit and just make it plain: when people like Notch talk about IQ differences, they are always trying to tell you that white people are intelligent and Jewish and black people are not. Only they’re doing it in a way that’s a lot easier for you to agree with because they aren’t wearing their antisemitism and racism on their sleeve.
As with pretty much everything fascists do, it’s just lie that they propagate to try to convince people that Jewish people and black people are inferior to white people.
In reality, no one has ever found any evidence that members of any given ethnicity are any more or less intelligent than any other.
In the second tweet, Notch is responding to an example of cryptofascism, a behavior that fascists will engage in to disguise their fascism.
The prefix crypto here refers to the idea that this is encoded language, something that you’ll miss if you aren’t in the know but that the right person, the person who knows how to decode it, will pick up on immediately. It’s a practice that fascists engage in so that they can continue to demonstrate their support for fascist ideals in full view of the public without making the rest of us immediately think of them as fascists. They also do this to make their ideas more palatable to the general public and to escape the scrutiny of anyone moderating public spaces for hate speech.
In this case, surrounding a reference to a person with triple parentheses is meant to identify that person as Jewish, signalling to any other fascists that this statement is for the consumption of other fascists. It’s also frequently used to identify Jewish people as targets for harassment and abuse, even though that’s now how it is being used here.
Not only is Notch responding directly to this, but he’s also directly agreeing with the statement that Jewish people will silence him.
Notch has previously supported the GamerGate movement, white supremacy, and homophobia. I don’t know if he’s expressed this level of comfort engaging with fascists before, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he considers them ‘his people’ given the devotion he’s given to other hateful ideologies.
Citations:
Markus Persson (@Notch). “If we were allowed to discuss IQ differences between populations, there’d be fewer conspiracy theories.” 7 Dec 2018, 12:10 p.m. Tweet.Markus Persson (@Notch). “Then I already am silenced.” 7 Dec 2018, 12:14 p.m. Tweet.
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