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Perhaps it is not about proof Roland00 Send a noteboard - 29/10/2018 05:22:36 PM

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I truly despise it. I have a dog whistle right here. Go ahead, blow on it. I assure you no one will hear.

Something that is hard to defend against and intended solely to shut down the speech of other people with whom the (leftist) utterer of the phrase disagrees. Speak out about some policy you wish to advance? Ha! That's a dogwhistle to racists/misogynists/homophobes and you can't prove otherwise!


Perhaps dog whistles is about a special language that two groups understand but the middle that does not.

Group A) The group that created the language in the first place.
Group B) The group that has experience that was negative due to "special languages" such as they got hurt, and thus they are hypervigilant looking for all special languages even if this creates false positives all the forking time.

And project exists higher in both Group A and Group B compared to the middle who does not understand nor care what is happening with the dog whistles.

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Oh trying to educate people about dog whistles without an "experience" component that grounds a person is often ineffective and sometimes even counter productive for it just enlarges the amount of people who know the special language in the first place.


View original postSpeak out about some policy you wish to advance? Ha! That's a dogwhistle to racists/misogynists/homophobes and you can't prove otherwise!

So I repeat "Perhaps it is not about proof ", it is hypervigilance gone awry hoping to prevent the scariest things you can imagine for some things can't be repaired when broken. "Proof" is not helpful in such a situation for proof is after the fact (after the thing is broken.)

Yet a hypervigilance mindset creates its own form of problems.

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I loathe the expression, “dog whistle” damookster - 29/10/2018 05:05:40 AM 761 Views
Literatedog might hear it. The Shrike - 29/10/2018 12:01:56 PM 499 Views
good point *NM* damookster - 29/10/2018 02:04:49 PM 233 Views
Dude, you're cruel. LiterateDog - 29/10/2018 04:59:28 PM 469 Views
perhaps this? *NM* damookster - 29/10/2018 05:02:50 PM 226 Views
Wait Mookie is silent as the grave when you blow his whistle? Roland00 - 29/10/2018 04:50:19 PM 468 Views
the whistle makes no audible sound damookster - 29/10/2018 05:21:34 PM 485 Views
Mookie you are just an "old fogey" Roland00 - 29/10/2018 05:24:05 PM 463 Views
Bom chicka wow wow! LiterateDog - 29/10/2018 05:07:27 PM 450 Views
how about another *NM* damookster - 29/10/2018 05:22:16 PM 210 Views
Umm fionwe1987 - 29/10/2018 04:34:11 PM 488 Views
They don't seem very effective, then. LiterateDog - 29/10/2018 04:58:51 PM 501 Views
thank you for nailing the point damookster - 29/10/2018 05:25:49 PM 496 Views
Or... fionwe1987 - 29/10/2018 07:43:13 PM 438 Views
Because no conservative used the term until liberals came up with it Cannoli - 30/10/2018 10:10:06 AM 484 Views
I follow both conservatives and liberals on Twitter and have only seen liberals use it. *NM* damookster - 30/10/2018 11:51:48 AM 222 Views
I know what it means. *NM* damookster - 29/10/2018 04:59:41 PM 223 Views
Well, your post exhibited otherwise. *NM* fionwe1987 - 29/10/2018 07:43:45 PM 224 Views
only to you *NM* damookster - 29/10/2018 08:25:31 PM 250 Views
How about, the super loud sound of the ice maker in the fridge? Roland00 - 29/10/2018 04:42:33 PM 498 Views
good one! AgentApple - 29/10/2018 06:06:16 PM 462 Views
It is akin to just flat out calling someone a racist. LiterateDog - 29/10/2018 05:05:29 PM 463 Views
Perhaps it is not about proof Roland00 - 29/10/2018 05:22:36 PM 472 Views
or perhaps group B just created it so they can call anyone who disagrees with them a racist random thoughts - 30/10/2018 12:53:39 PM 489 Views
LAUGHS *NM* Roland00 - 30/10/2018 05:13:16 PM 230 Views
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men damookster - 30/10/2018 11:07:09 PM 460 Views
It's a useful expression, that may be overused or misused at times. *NM* Legolas - 29/10/2018 06:12:38 PM 242 Views
It's a useless expression, that is continually overused or misused. *NM* damookster - 29/10/2018 11:33:03 PM 232 Views
It is politics, by that standard it has lots of company *NM* Roland00 - 30/10/2018 02:29:18 AM 228 Views
It's far from useless. Legolas - 31/10/2018 07:37:10 PM 479 Views
they are handing if your trying to call race baiters random thoughts - 29/10/2018 07:42:03 PM 490 Views
Im not really active on much social media Hieshyn - 31/10/2018 06:44:24 PM 586 Views
Sure damookster - 31/10/2018 06:51:17 PM 479 Views
Oh, ok. Thank you for the clarification *NM* Hieshyn - 02/11/2018 11:18:52 PM 369 Views
watch about ten min of CNN and you should sent it used *NM* random thoughts - 01/11/2018 07:46:14 PM 237 Views
For Mookie Roland00 - 01/11/2018 08:48:02 PM 593 Views
this drives me nuts damookster - 01/11/2018 08:56:30 PM 460 Views
He is currently and running for re-election for the guy who does clerical duties such as various Roland00 - 01/11/2018 11:42:15 PM 459 Views
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