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Dog Whistles (lemmy.world)

Full post here: https://www.tumblr.com/brightlotusmoon/727204642739617792

Posting this to make up for accidentally posting a dog whistle earlier. Oops

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago

I honestly interpreted this as a socially awkward way of trying to do small talk - for example talking about weather

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Me, too. But I definitely know about the dogwhistle when they phrase it as "stop noticing things." Subtlety makes it an effective dogwhistle. They will steal vocabulary and concepts from anywhere to spread their bigotry and hatred.

this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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