• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Is every word and number going to get colonised as dogwhistle until all of language has become a minefield ? Why do we even give air to this shit ? It seems to me acknowledging it is to give it power and legitimacy.

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          2 years ago

          I mean I just watched this explanation of the “sneed seed and feed” dogwhistle and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbo0IeWTY4 It doesn’t seem to signal more than vague group membership appartenance. I think the thing with dogwhistle is they expire as they diffuse. Like teens drawing swastikas and penises just because it’s offensive. This “41” is from more than a century ago. I think with these heirloom dogwhisles, you at least should check how much they really mean it are if they’re just shitposters. You don’t want the whiteknight stonethrowers to get bogged down by collateral damage, playing into their game and catching all the flak from “them”

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              2 years ago

              Just because you have never heard of something doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist.

              You were one 15 second search away from not being a cunt on the internet but here you are, being proud of how ignorant you are.

              People from these groups get pretty well informed about various dogwhistles and slurs that the general population won’t, because they’re used to harass us.