r/Anarchism • u/FrantiqueOlives • 3d ago

New User Alphanumerics, resistance, symbols, resources?

Hello! I have a friend who recently came across the 161 alphanumeric code in a comment section, he was worried it might have been a hate thing, and texted me about it because i spend a lot of time looking out for dogwhistles.

Symbols are pretty well known and obvious, but almost all alphanumeric symbols i've had to be taught by an elder in my community, or had to have explained to me. It struck me that someone must have catalogued, somewhere, common alphanumerics in the political sphere.

I come now to ask, does anyone have something like that? Even if its a list exclusive to certain ideologies (IE; only lists right wing alphanumerics like 88/1488, or only lists left wing codes like 1312/161.) My friend is currently in college, and i've realized a lot of people in our age group are very poorly educated on hate symbols and resistance symbols alike. Alphanumerics aren't all too common these days from what i know, but they still crop up. I'd love to be able for both of us to distribute flyers or links to anything in particular to our local communities.

If anyone knows of a list- book, website, blog post, any form its in that i can get my hands on- that'd be an awesome thing to share. Thanks for reading, excuse any formatting i am not a redditor nor am i on laptop.

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u/Carrotspy007 anarcho-communist 2d ago

I found two sites that list a good amount of them, but they're unfortunately Zionist and not leftist-friendly. But they could be used as a source if you're compiling your own list.
https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbols/search
https://www.gra.ch/hate-speech-decoder/

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u/franzitronee 1d ago

ACAB "hate symbol" 😭