• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

        Additional context: when the triple parentheses first came into use it was used in the conspiracy theory sort of way so it was usually used for they and them

        Example: (((they))) are indoctrinating our children

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            Yeah it doesn’t quite land because they don’t specify they’re self hating so even when the reader is clued in they’re still left a bit perplexed.

            Absolutely should have been “I’m a non-binary Jewish anti-semite.”

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        I prefer excessive parentheses to be programmers’ jokes about LISP-like languages, thanks

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        would have been better if (((they))) said they’re a self-hating non-binary jew. I didn’t get that they were supposed to be racist against themselves

        like the joke is also stupid and bad but on top of that the execution is terrible

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          yeah, it seems like the author just forgot that the word “antisemite” exists and went with a more confusing route

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    You have to have run into some exceptionally shitty parts of the Internet to understand that one, and this is the Internet we’re talking about.

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        I’ve seen people explain that particular, shall we say, use of punctuation, on Reddit, but I never saw anybody earnestly do it. I think you’ve got to drop at least one level lower on the cultural tactfulness to get there.