We were reminded of this concept recently in the Netherlands when a Canadian neo-Nazi used a laser projection to project “Anne Frank, inventor of the ballpoint

We were reminded of this concept recently in the Netherlands when a Canadian neo-Nazi used a laser projection to project “Anne Frank, inventor of the ballpoint pen” (in Dutch) on the walls of the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. An innocent (or silly) phrase if you take it literally, but the intended message is that Anne Frank never existed or didn't write her diary (or whatever), because it contains pages written with a ballpoint pen (which was only commercially available after World War Two). Never mind that the pages in question are just two slips of paper containing research notes left by a researcher in the 1950s… (The Anne Frank Museum actually has a whole page dedicated to this crackpot theory: https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/authenticity-diary-anne-frank/ https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/authenti...) The far right people pushing this are not counting on people to take the phrase literally though. The idea is that whoever spreads the message feels clever for trolling people with a phrase he (usually) can claim is 'just a literal clone of BLM for white people', while whoever orchestrated or propagated the phenomenon is acutely aware of the potential power of such a dog-whistle.