The Goyim Know
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The Goyim Know (sometimes followed by Shut It Down) is an antisemitic trope and catchphrase used by the alt-right, white supremacists, and other antisemites to claim that Jewish people are attempting to conceal or suppress knowledge of an international Jewish conspiracy.
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The term "goyim" is a Hebrew and Yiddish term for non-Jewish people. The word "goy" appears in Biblical Hebrew to mean "nation" and is used to refer to both Jews and non-Jews. The phrase is sometimes preceded by "oy vey". The use of the antisemitic "The Goyim Know/Shut It Down" meme was common on 4chan and 8chan. Writing for The Forward, Rebecca Einstein Schorr as an instance of "linguistic appropriation" whereby white supremacists have incorporated "pseudo-Yiddish phrases" into their vocabulary in order to ridicule and impersonate Jews. Schorr describes that as a way to propagate the "anti-Semitic myth that we are a cabal with our own secret language and agenda".