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"tough" and "firm" are dog whistles for multitude of pathological behaviors
by scotty79 3y ago
"tough" and "firm" are dog whistles for multitude of pathological behaviors
- mc32 3y agoNitpick: those might be euphemisms but they’re not dog whistles. Everyone, not just some kind of people would understand the unstated meaning of those words. Dog whistles are similar to shibboleths.
- ethanbond 3y agoThey’re extremely mild implications of the exact shape you’d expect actual guards to get while on the job, no? Is your thinking that a prison guard (or analogous) would be told to be kind and forgiving, or not given any direction at all on the “right” way to behave?