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I'm sure you're writing in good faith, but you may be interested to know that in internet slang "noticing" is a racist and possibly sexist dog-whistle[1]. [1]
by User23 5y ago
I'm sure you're writing in good faith, but you may be interested to know that in internet slang "noticing" is a racist and possibly sexist dog-whistle[1].
[1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noticing https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noticing
- tomca32 5y agoInteresting. Could you suggest how to rewrite that comment and express that a person noticed something (in the literal sense of the word) without using a dog whistle?
- nanoservices 5y agoInterested to know this as well. I am not sure if pointing to a definition on Urban Dictionary with ~100 thumbs is enough to redefine a word let alone assume that the average person is using it as a dog whistle.
- dylan604 5y agoIt occurred to me that... I realized that... I became aware... That's without even looking for a thesaurus. Not that I'm supporting this alt-definition of noticing, but your question seemed pretty trivial to answer.
- tomca32 5y agoThanks, that does answer the question I wrote, however my point was that I'm very uncomfortable with this environment where any innocent word could be interpreted as a dog-whistle, and was curious if any "notice" synonyms are also considered dog-whistles.
- hajile 5y agoThen it's 5 seconds before all those are "bad words" too. Maybe it's better to assume that most people in the world aren't evil degenerates unless there's hard evidence to the contrary.
- dylan604 5y agoWelcome to the "woke" world. You'll be learning a lot about what people totally unfamiliar to you do that you've also done at some point without knowing it. We're all sinners in a woke world
- flumpcakes 5y agoAre you implying I'm racist or sexist for using a normal word in it's usual context? I don't particularly care if a normal word, which is in plenty of dictionaries, is co-opted by a small group of people. My friends won't know this secret meaning, my family won't know that, whatever is on the TV, Radio, or Cinema won't know that. And now this conversation is completely off topic. The internet is so hyper partisan that even normal, boring usage of the English language is now weaponised as shibboleths.
- nicoburns 5y agoI find the concept of calling people out for using terms that are dog whistles quite problematic. By their very nature, dog whistles are terms in widespread innocent use, and as such the majority of the people using the term will using it in its ordinary usage in good faith. We shouldn't assume people are using these terms as dog whistles unless we have some other evidence to suggest that.
- karaterobot 5y agoWhat a strange culture we've trapped ourselves in.