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It seems like every comment by someone the left doesn’t like is a kind of dog whistle.
by sheepmullet 8y ago
It seems like every comment by someone the left doesn’t like is a kind of dog whistle.
- Kye 8y agoDoesn't mean they're wrong. There's a reason they don't like those words/phrases.
- sheepmullet 8y ago> Doesn't mean they're wrong. If you have watched Alex Jones before you will know he happily speaks his mind and is not afraid to come across as offensive or crazy. It is not in his character to hide secret meanings in his content.
- Kye 8y agoHe was put on notice by Twitter with a week ban. That's the exact circumstance where someone like him would start using coded language to try and avoid a ban while still promoting his ideas. That's the purpose of coded language.
- nichochar 8y agoAh. the good old: lets criticize a generalization by making a generalization. Always a strong argument :)
- ravenstine 8y agoSince when does the broadness of an observation or argument have any impact on its validity? Who made up that rule?
- happytoexplain 8y agoI'm confident that people tend to extrapolate anecdotal negative experiences about groups of people in bad faith, and that, as the group size increases, this tendency increases relative to the availability of more objective observations. If that's true, the broader the group subjected to a negative generalization, the more likely it is that the observation is as I described. Combined with intuition about the nature of the negativity, I can sometimes feel confident expressing an opinion about the observation one way or the other (e.g. "I think X people are less conversational" vs "I think X people are mostly violent thugs").
- beat 8y agoComparing Jews to rats is a classic Nazi trope. It's actually a dog whistle, for real and true.
- dragonwriter 8y agoI'm not sure it's subtle enough to be a dog whistle; it's more like a train whistle, really.
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- happytoexplain 8y agoAt least the grandparent comment had the decency to generalize about a smaller, more ideologically narrow group of people than "the right" or "the left".