First, let's clear up the terminology. When someone says "Their bar is not uniformly high...", that is not a dog whistle whose meaning is unclear except to a ce

First, let's clear up the terminology. When someone says "Their bar is not uniformly high...", that is not a dog whistle whose meaning is unclear except to a certain group. It is a simple statement that the referent does not meet a high standard. As for the reasoning, criticisms abound, but two (one recent and one older) are: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-toxic-world-view-of-ta-nehisi-coates-120512/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/the-toxic-wo... https://colemanhughes.substack.com/p/the-fantasy-world-of-ta-nehisi-coates https://colemanhughes.substack.com/p/the-fantasy-world-of-ta...