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originally posted by: Bluesma
Uh.... could someone please explain the repeated references to "dog whistles"??????
Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. The phrase is often used as a pejorative because of the inherently deceptive nature of the practice and because the dog-whistle messages are frequently distasteful to the general populace. The analogy is to a dog whistle, whose high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs but inaudible to humans. The term can be distinguished from "code words" used in some specialist professions, in that dog-whistling is specific to the political realm. The messaging referred to as the dog-whistle has an understandable meaning for a general audience, rather than being incomprehensible.
en.wikipedia.org...
Shout out to Eletheia .^
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Spider879
I've been seeing tons of these popping up. I'm very skeptical but not ruling it out entirely.
Do you think they are 100% legitimate or done by some fkwits for attention?
originally posted by: Spider879
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Spider879
I've been seeing tons of these popping up. I'm very skeptical but not ruling it out entirely.
Do you think they are 100% legitimate or done by some fkwits for attention?
It's both the point being they felt even more empowered to do so.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Spider879
Simply going with what I know, and that is there are a staggering amount of fkwits (have I mentioned my complete admiration for that word?) far outweighs the racists. To that, I am more inclined to believe that someone put this there to make the point akin to "See what Trump does!?!?"
The true racists that I've known were such cowards. They certainly wouldn't show it. Again, that's my experience.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: Spider879
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Spider879
I've been seeing tons of these popping up. I'm very skeptical but not ruling it out entirely.
Do you think they are 100% legitimate or done by some fkwits for attention?
It's both the point being they felt even more empowered to do so.
I don't know.
If racist sentiment was always so there, then why wasn't it prominent under any other Republican? Or even under Clinton?
These things just don't suddenly appear overnight.
You are basically accusing most everyone who voted for Trump of being a hidden racist at heart who now wants nothing more than to oppress blacks, but if we weren't that way before ... why now? And you can't say it was solely Obama. If that was the case, then this would have happened four years ago, not eight.
I think your logic in this is pretty much flawed. Or perhaps, you are seeing some pushback to the actions of groups like BLM and other SJW groups who have gone too far and you are interpreting it as some great magnitude of hidden racism that for some reason 60 million+ have been harboring for decades in many cases and just now decided to unleash.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Spider879
Look, I drive through a poor neighborhood that is heavily minority taking my son to school every day. I've been driving through that same one for the past 8 years. It has always been poor, but it was relatively well kept for a poor neighborhood. I've watched it fall apart over the last 8 years.
Hillary was promising more of the same.
I didn't want to see that neighborhood and many more like it fall even further apart for another 4 years, and that is what was coming.
I cannot promise that Trump will do any better. There's no way to know, but at least there is a chance.
originally posted by: Spider879
Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. The phrase is often used as a pejorative because of the inherently deceptive nature of the practice and because the dog-whistle messages are frequently distasteful to the general populace. The analogy is to a dog whistle, whose high-frequency whistle is heard by dogs but inaudible to humans. The term can be distinguished from "code words" used in some specialist professions, in that dog-whistling is specific to the political realm. The messaging referred to as the dog-whistle has an understandable meaning for a general audience, rather than being incomprehensible.
en.wikipedia.org...
Shout out to Eletheia .^