An example of leftist dog whistle behaviour being..? Here’s the thing, many projects have adopted CoCs over the last few years because in the absence of specif

An example of leftist dog whistle behaviour being..? Here’s the thing, many projects have adopted CoCs over the last few years because in the absence of specific documents saying “don’t be racist, sexist, antisemitic, transphobic, homophobic, …” there were people doing just that, and then saying it wasn’t against the rules. There a significant problem in which people have been trying to claim that racism, sexism, antisemitism, transphobia, homophobia, etc are a core part of their religion or political beliefs, and so must be allowed. These same groups make claims like giving gay or trans people the same rights as non-gay or non-trans people is somehow giving those people privileges. The reason they make those claims is solely to do a very classic trick employed by white supremacists, which is to claim that by not allowing them to dehumanize others you are discriminating against them. It’s a generally common refrain used by any group discriminating against any other group - from neonazis against Jews, Israelis vs Palestinians, to the jim Crow states against black people in the south. In all cases the group that wishes to discriminate claims that being denied the right to discriminate is itself discrimination.