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More like don't assume anything that looks like a dog whistle actually is one. Which I think I was pretty clear about and no longer think you're engaging in good faith.
You really weren't, if that's what your message was - you even used the 4chan example of how innocuous symbols can be co-opted by hate groups as dogwhistles. But if your reaction to several messages of patiently explaining myself to you is to declare I'm acting in bad faith after one mildly hyperbolic remark about your comment then there's really nothing to be gained for me here.
Why were we even talking about dogwhistles, anyways? That hadn't come up before, and really wasn't at all relevant to the discussion. Nothing they said was a dogwhistle. I'm very confused where that came from.
When I wrote that reply, the comment I replied to only had that first sentence. But yeah, this is a waste of time. I brought up dogwhistles because I thought maybe that's what you were getting at with calling this specific line of argument a defense of nazis because I still don't see it and likely won't.
Ah yeah sorry, lemmy decided to post the 2nd half as a reply for some reason (that was the "moment").
No, there was no dogwhistling, just reputation laundering. I'm sorry, I don't know of a way to explain this more clearly to you.