"Early Life" Wikipedia Section

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Category: Meme Status: confirmed Year: 2019 Origin: 4chan Region:

Type: Parody

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About

"Early Life" Wikipedia Section is a section found in biographical entries on Wikipedia that describe events of a person's early life, such as their date and place of birth and their immediate family. Due to the information of a person's ethnic and religious background often readily available in the "Early Life" section, it has been used to check whether a certain person is Jewish, often by those seeking to spread anti-Semitic sentiment. In the late 2010s, dog-whistle memes referencing the section received spread online, with the phrase "Early Life" being used to reference Jewish ethnicity.

Origin

The earliest discovered 4chan^[1] post in which a user referred to the "Early Life" section of a Wikipedia article to check whether a person being discussed is Jewish was posted to 4chan's /pol/ on January 27th, 2014, although the practice did not gain widespread popularity until 2019.

Anonymous Mon 27 Jan 2014 20:00:11 No.25867710 Quoted By: >>25867757 From Wikipedia: >Steven E. Levitan (born April 6, 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and producer of television comedies. He has created such TV series as Just Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, and Modern Family. Early life and education >Levitan was raised Jewish in Chicago, Illinois >Jewish What else would you expect?

Between 2014 and 2019, multiple posts in which users referred to the "Early Life" section on Wikipedia were posted on 4chan,^[2]^[3]^[4] primarily on its /pol/ board (examples shown below, left and center).

In August 2015, the first post^[5] in which the ethnicity check was followed by the phrase "every time" was made on 4chan's /pol/ (shown below, right), with the phrase and its variations often used in such posts in the following years.

Anonymous Tue 20 May 2014 19:09:10 No.30196735 Report >>30196700 ΑAAA I FOUND SOMETHING ELSE YOU F-- LOOK AT HER MOTHER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lipton >Early life and education >Born in New York on August 30, 1946, Peggy Lipton was raised in a comfortably upper- middle-class Jewish family. THAT EXPLAINS IT

Anonymous Fri 25 Jul 2014 11:39:04 No.32957805 It's a great concept but why the f--- does it always has to be jews? "Early life Born March 13, 1916,[6] Jacque Fresco grew up in a Sephardi Jewish[7] home in Bensonhurst in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.[8] According to Fresco, he had no interest with formal schooling and "dropped out of school at 14."[9] Fresco grew up during the Great Depression period." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco

Anonymous ID:Uf+JsQ1c Sun 09 Aug 2015 11:46:52 No.49374972 II >>49374852 "Early life Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, to a nonobservant Jewish family. His mother, Elizabeth" every time

The practice saw an initial increase in usage in early 2018, with a number of posts made on 4chan^[6]^[7] through the year (examples shown below, left and right).

Anonymous ID:WAZ/ci/J Fri 02 Feb 2018 10:30:13 No.158944591 Quoted By: >>158946528 >>158911000 pay no attention to the man behind he curtain anon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich >scroll down to early life >(((every time))) >closest associate of Joseph Stalin yet lived until 1991 >literally oversaw the Soviet Union from its birth and it crumbled a few months after he died

Anonymous ID:HSkgicL5 Sat 03 Mar 2018 11:45:35 No.162595210 Probably Bill Whittles video on history of political correctness. Started me reading about cultural Marxism. Every time l'd see a name l'd go to their wiki page. In the early life section I began to notice a pattern. They were almost always born to at least one Jewish parent.

On October 6th, 2019, an anonymous 4chan^[8] user posted the earliest meme that referenced the practice, a Nut Button edit. On October 28th, 2019, iFunny^[9] account Politically_Incorrect reposted the image, with the post gaining over 240 smiles (seen below).

"Let's have a talk about white privilege and systemic racism." ^ Early life

Spread

The practice continued its spread in certain online communities such as 4chan and other imageboards and iFunny in 2020, with memes reflecting its spread. For example, on February 28th, 2020, iFunny^[10] user YourBoyAlucard posted a Wojak comic that received over 210 smiles in one year (shown below, left). On March 1st, 2020, an unknown Redditor posted a meme in the /r/PoliticalCompassMemes subreddit,^[11] where it gained over 650 upvotes prior to being deleted (shown below, center). On November 23rd, 2020, Facebook^[12] page Cutting Edge Darkcel Quotes Over Stock Doge Images posted an ironic Doge meme that received over 460 reactions and 120 shares in nine months (shown below, right).