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Dog Whistles (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by ReadyUser31@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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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 36 points 1 month ago

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

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month 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.

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