“Noticers”

“Noticers” explained

When real statistics fail, anecdotes are highlighted. Conspiracies are palatable so long as they’re devoid of context. Subscribers to this way of thinking proudly call it “noticing.” Noticing can be defined as obsessing over Jews.

Imagine a jar of 1,000 M&Ms with 5 green ones. If you only ever talk about the green M&Ms, they start to seem like the whole story. “Don’t you think it’s weird that people pick out the green M&Ms? That they’re so colorful and shiny?” It does not matter if there are 400 blue M&Ms, 300 red M&Ms, 200 brown M&Ms. This is noticing.

“Noticers” are primed to notice one group, Jews. It is precisely defined by a tendency to perceive meaningful connections or patterns within random, unrelated data.

Schizophrenia and related disorders are marked by impaired pattern recognition, where individuals often miss real connections while simultaneously perceiving illusory ones. For actual schizophrenic people, any Jewish example becomes proof of a pattern, while all the non-Jewish cases vanish from view.

To parody the noticers, consider Irish Control:

Only 9.5% of Americans have Irish ancestry, yet nearly half the US Presidents were Irish. Irish Americans dominated cable news hosting in 2020, with eight visibly Irish Americans (Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Bret Baier, Rachel Maddow, Martha MacCallum, Lawrence O’Donnell, Neil Cavuto) as the most watched cable news hosts. Just look at all the Irish surnames of Wall Street CEOs: Brian Moynihan (Bank of America), Martin Flanagan (Invesco), James P. Gorman (Morgan Stanley), Terrence Duffy (CME Group), Mike Cagney (SoFi), Chris Concannon (Cboe Global Markets).

What does this parody tell us? That some Irish people were successful. That lists and anecdotes can be manipulated to imply control where none exists. It is not a pattern. It has no weight on a working class Irish person’s life.

Remember, people don’t “notice” the Irish. They notice Jews.

So if the Irish-noticing above wasn’t enough evidence to convince you of the Irish Question, a conspirer can throw in some more names. Michael Corbat (Citigroup) and Michael Doughty (John Hancock) are suddenly Irish for the sake of a conspiracy. Don’t they sound Irish? Now the list of Irish Wall Street CEOs is even longer. And who would fact check such a thing?

If all else fails, simply list random Irish names: Walt Disney, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, John Houston, Michael Moore. That’s noticing. That’s the brilliant “anti-zionist” tactic we see over and over.

Noticing works best when paired with ignorance and disinterest in research.

What if I told you Joseph W. McIntosh, William McChesney Martin, Jr., Thomas Bayard, James Francis Thaddeus, Edward W. Kelly, Jr., Charles Donovan O’Leary and Patrick H. Fitzsimmons all had control over the US Federal Reserve? Clearly noticers would notice the Irish control the Fed! But, hey, only the last two names I listed were entirely made up.

So then why do the noticers only notice Jews? Because it works for them. Every single cause, whether pro-immigration or anti-immigration, pro-Capitalism or pro-Communism, has the “noticers” desperate to find a few names and call it a pattern. They don’t notice that their attention to Jews is pathological. They notice the response to it.