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Fwiw, the dog whistle _is_ the call to action. It's mildly amusing that the connotation has inverted though.
by cwillu 3y ago
Fwiw, the dog whistle _is_ the call to action. It's mildly amusing that the connotation has inverted though.
- xtiansimon 3y ago“Trainers may use the whistle simply to gather a dog's attention, or to inflict pain for the purpose of behaviour modification.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle Seems to go both ways, but without a doubt it gets the animal’s attention.
- cwillu 3y agoMy point is that “oh, that's a nazi dog whistle” has been so overused that people have now come to associate the term with “signal that people think signifies something to another group, but which doesn't”.