Dog Whistles

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We are hearing this term a lot lately.

What is a 'Dog Whistle?'

How do 'Dog Whistles' work?

Why have 'Dog Whistles' become so popular during the mid term campaigns?

Will this thread, simply by talking about this, while excluding trolls, be stolen by them?

Does that mean trolls are susceptible to 'Dog Whistles?'

If this thread is stolen, plagiarized, will the thief have the nerve to use the entire OP, word for word?

If you want my take on it, you'll have to post to the original thread.

I refuse to be an enabler to online bullies, so I won't post to a stolen thread.

I won't even read it. Thread thievery is the tool of trolls.

Is this thread a 'Dog Whistle' for trolls?

You know, people talk about one another. You might as well admit it is true, and realize the people who know you, talk about you when you are not present. I can accept that. Many can't. Trolls can't. They have to try to conTROLL what people say about them. (Like Trump!) They can't stand the thought of people talking about them without trying to conTROLL the conversation. That's the insecurity talking......
 
Well, here's the thing. We are all unique individuals. That means, though we may have some similarities, each of us is different.

I have a unique perspective; you have a unique perspective; We all see the world from a different vantage point.

But that's a good thing. Variety of experience gives us new ideas and innovation.

I doubt this place is exactly what any of us wants it to be; even it's creator.

We don't get to pick the position we are born into in this life, nor the world we are born into.

What we do with it is up to each of us. But none can control everything. We have to work together.

This all seems quite obvious to me. Others seem to struggle with it. Like Donald Trump.
 
Hello anonymoose,

anonymoose said:
I'm fine. I was just concerned for you after reading that rambling manifesto. Or maybe it seemed rambling to me because I'm so far outside the loop of who it's addressed to. :dunno:
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That's a loop nobody wants to be in. It is a sad and stressful place to be.
 
Both sides do it. The left just likes to come up with derogatory terms for when the right does it. The left invents their own nonsense terms. Can't just be a straight person who knows they are straight---you have to be cisgendered now.
 
Hello Kacper,

Kacper said:
Both sides do it. The left just likes to come up with derogatory terms for when the right does it. The left invents their own nonsense terms. Can't just be a straight person who knows they are straight---you have to be cisgendered now.
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I' afraid you've have to explain that. Not sure if I get it. Here's what is clear:

When the conservative white Republican candidate for Florida Governor uses the word 'monkey' as he is talking about the liberal Black Democrat candidate?

That's a total dog whistle.
 
I've actually read the book on dog whistles. It's complete nonsense.

It's a propaganda technique for politically correct thinkers to pretend their own racist thoughts came about because of someone else's words. For example, when I say "welfare queen" and you automatically think "black people", you can pretend I was trying to signal other racists rather than admitting that the first thought that came was a racist one. The term "dog whistle" is quite apt, because their own ears start ringing immediately.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Kacper,



I' afraid you've have to explain that. Not sure if I get it. Here's what is clear:

When the conservative white Republican candidate for Florida Governor uses the word 'monkey' as he is talking about the liberal Black Democrat candidate?

That's a total dog whistle.
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That you apply this standard only to republicans is telling. What other words can white democrats say that white republicans cannot?
 
Funny Republicans don’t think Trump bears responsibility because words don’t matter, only the shooters actions. If words are so valueless why do they spend so much time protecting their hate speech ?
 
Micawber said:
Funny Republicans don’t think Trump bears responsibility because words don’t matter, only the shooters actions. If words are so valueless why do they spend so much time protecting their hate speech ?
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It is what you consider hate speech. Others know it as free speech. Works the other way also.
 
Hello Kacper,

Kacper said:
That you apply this standard only to republicans is telling. What other words can white democrats say that white republicans cannot?
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That standard could be applied to both parties, I just can't think of any racist Democrats.

Give me an example of a Democrat using a 'Dog Whistle' call to racism.
 
PoliTalker said:
Hello Kacper,



That standard could be applied to both parties, I just can't think of any racist Democrats.

Give me an example of a Democrat using a 'Dog Whistle' call to racism.
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Insert anything said by Robert Byrd here---------------------->________________________.

 
Hello Kacper,

That video would not play for me.

I find it hard to believe that Biden is a racist. I can certainly believe that he said something inappropriate. He's got a knack for mouth bombs. Was it intentional?

And don't even try to dig into history. Everybody knows the old Dem party was racist. All those old racists moved over to the Republican party decades ago. Let's talk about current figures.
 
Sailor said:
It is what you consider hate speech. Others know it as free speech. Works the other way also.
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Hate speech is protected speech, agreed. I'm just questioning the argument used to blame liberals for voicing the connection between
Trump's words and violence. The argument is that the shooter is solely responsible. That boils down to "words don't accomplish anything
or cause anything" So I ask, if words don't do anything, thereby valueless, what is the purpose of protecting something without value.
The question is rhetorical. Saying words don't matter is lying. Especially coming from the most powerful most listened to human in the world
who is beloved by those who do like him at all. And further that it doesn't take too much to send a teetering soul off the edge. So it
is was and always will be foreseeable that some people will run a mile when their leader says run an inch. Trump is indifferent to this
and I say that he owns any uptick in political violence since he got into office. Pretending Trump isn't responsible is lying and crass in the extreme.
 
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