Yes, I agree. The idea about a “dog whistle” is something that one side hears and understand, while the other skates by it as innocuous. wiki " Dog - whistle politics is the use of coded or suggestive language in politics to garner support from a wider audience for a candidate. Dog whistles serve the purpose of attracting the intended political audience without garnering ire with opposing audiences, similar to ultrasonic dog whistles used in sheepherding."
Since all the supposed “right wing” dog whistles are clearly seen and heard by the left, they arent really “dog whistles”.
No, not at all. BLM is more than just Black people killed by cops- altho that is indeed what starts a protest. It is also about “driving while Black”- it is about the continued discrimination of Black people by racist cops… cops who have all the power, and can ruin someone’s day even without a arrest. https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/ In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.
Black Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities. The impetus for that commitment was, and still is, the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state…Ferguson helped to catalyze a movement to which we’ve all helped give life. Organizers who call this network home have ousted anti-Black politicians, won critical legislation to benefit Black lives, and changed the terms of the debate on Blackness around the world. Through movement and relationship building, we have also helped catalyze other movements and shifted culture with an eye toward the dangerous impacts of anti-Blackness.
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We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities.
We work vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension, all people.
So yeah- white people kill white people and black people kill black people, etc- they do so because of greed, anger, revenge etc- the usual reasons for murder since Cain. But to kill someone just because of the color of their skin- that is indeed something specially wrong.
If you actually listen to Atwaters tape, not just selected out of context snippets, you will see that what he meant is quite different. Mind you, in some ways it’s worse even.
Not to mention, that should never have become public. Lamis promised that Atwaters name wouldnt be mentioned
You’re overlooking the two-sided coin of ‘secret’ and ‘plausibly deniable’.
For a time, presumably, the secret signals are in fact secret. the signal goes unnoticed by the masses, because they see it as meaning something different - something harmless or with no meaning at all.
Then, later, the secret gets out, as all secrets do. After that, the signal is noticed by the masses, but the signaler claims that it means something different, something harmless or with no meaning at all. And the dog’s ears still perk up as the speaker intends.
Ok, you do know “two can keep a secret if one is dead” right? So find me a Conservative (other than the taken out of context Atwater interview) admitting that a certain term is a dogwhistle. if it is aimed at a million voters, someone will spill the beans.
In fact, all the liberals here say there aint no Liberal dogwhisles of note. No reason to lie.
That’s the whole point. It’s not a secret, it is deniable.
And it is the masses that the dog whistle is directed “over”.
Your supporters are supposed to get it and agree, your detractors are supposed to get it and be agitated, and all the people in the middle are supposed to believe that you are being perfectly innocent and that your critics are being unreasonable.
This isn’t some wide conspiracy where they all get a playbook. The people are not “in” on some secret. It is the politicians who see these terms get good traction with a certain demographic set, and continue to use them.
Dog whistles are not politically driven, but ideologically. Either side could have them, but conservatives tend to be the ones with less support for their policies, so need to add an extra bit of fear and distrust of our fellow citizen in order to get them through.
Well, there was that whole ok-sign debacle. Posts on whichever-forum-that-was that said it should be deliberately made into a dogwhistle to trigger the libs, followed by widening use of it. Based on that it was built to bypass the ‘secret’ step and skip straight to the ‘plausible deniability’ step.
You are saying that no racists ever used it to communicate their racism to other racists?
A white supremacist sign is a sign that white supremacists use.
Yeah, it was a woosh that worked, it worked on the racists too, as they started using it. And it was a good dog whistle, as it went right over the heads of people like you.
Tell me, if you are using a white supremacist sign, not because you are a white supremacist, but because you want people to think you are, how is that any better?
Just calibration here, would the “low income housing” in this be a dog whistle?
“I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood…”
Maybe, but only because the liberals were whooshed.
It was just the opposite of a dog whistle. It was posted by 4chan, they whooshed you you bought into it. You know the careers and lives of Military were put into jeopardy as some idiot liberals decided they were doing the 'white power" symbol. A hispanic utility worker who was just cracking his joints was fired then restated as some idiot liberals thought he was giving the 'white power" symbol. It is not the white power symbol, it never was. Just some liberals refusing to admit they were fooled.
They also use the American flag. Clearly then, it is a white supremacist symbol and needs to be removed. You know, idiot liberals have already conceded the Gadsden and Betsy Ross flag, why not the American flag?
They also use hawaiian shirts . Clearly then, it is a white supremacist symbol and needs to be removed. Only white supremacists wear them, clearly.
They also use camo. Clearly then, it is a white supremacist symbol and needs to be removed.