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What's dog whistling?
I believe it's using certain language or phrases that sound fine on their face but have hidden signals or meanings to certain groups. Probably a bad example but off the top of my head something like a politician saying "you should have the right to protect your family in your own home" could be a dog whistle to say that they oppose gun restrictions.
Got it, thanks! That was a good example.
The most common and innocuous sounding one is "Family values" the moment I hear that I immediately assume anti-gay.
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This is a bit of a tricky example, if Orban or Meloni said that I'd be suspicious.
But if an environmentalist or leftist criticised bankers for investment in fossil fuel or the 2007 economic collapse then it's obviously not dog whistle to blame it in international bankers.
I believe this happened in the UK. I'm not totally familiar with their politicians, but I believe it was Corbin? that was standing in front of a mural that was supposed to be about some "illuminati" intentional banker conspiracy and he got a whole bunch of shit for being antisemitic because the bankers were Jewish, when their religion/ethnicity had absolutely nothing to do with the criticism.
Like 1488 is a dog whistle. Pretty much saying you’re a nazi. But I could be wrong
Sort of. There’s no context where 1488 is not a nazi saying unless you’re literally using it as a number. But when it first started being used it could potentially qualify as a dog whistle.
For it to be a dog whistle it would have to sound like an innocent comment on face value unless you were the “dog”