Comment by blueflow
2 years ago
"dog whistle" is such a nasty concept. You can accuse anyone of anything you associate their vocabulary with. The only limit is your imagination and the accused can't really falsify it.
2 years ago
"dog whistle" is such a nasty concept. You can accuse anyone of anything you associate their vocabulary with. The only limit is your imagination and the accused can't really falsify it.
Agreed. As someone else said:
>The term dog whistle is regularly used as a covert form of Ad Hominem that I find logically annoying, basically "ignore everything this person said because" insert assumption of what was meant and derogatory term about political affiliation.
I view the phrase as "I can't find something to attack in what ideological opponent said, so I'm going to pretend that what he said actually means something else, and attack that instead".
There’s varying degrees here. “Well well well” seems like an extreme stretch, like what you’re describing.
If you say “the globalist vermin who secretly control Hollywood and the media” or “urban thugs and welfare queens”, we know what that actually means.
There are genuine dog whistles out there.