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It's quite a loud one, but it's broadcast above 25KHz or so

• iamnotamouse 2mo ago
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  • Retr0id 2mo ago
    U+1F921
  • hananova 2mo ago
    Yes that is one part of how dog whistles work. Disguise it well enough to get rubes to run interference for you. You’re doing that very well.
    • iamnotamouse 2mo ago
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• jordanf 2mo ago
  wut? haha
  • lambda 2mo ago
    Just to explain because not everyone is necessarily a native English speaker or gets the reference. This is a reference to a dog whistle. Above 25kHz are sounds that dogs can hear but humans generally can't. The term dog whistle is used to refer to phrases that racists use to indicate their racism, while sounding plausibly deniable. The idea is that it's a phrase that will make other racists realize that you are one of them, while not sounding openly racist to others. DHH himself has gone beyond dog whistles. He's directly compared what he considers undesirable ehtnic populations to wolves who need to be shot. He's just openly calling for ethnic cleansing by now. But support for Omarchy itself can be seen as a dog whistle. It's widely known that DHH is a fascist, but you have some plausible deniability by donating to Omarchy because you're just politically neutral and think it's cool tech, or something like that.
    • embedding-shape 2mo ago
      > DHH himself has gone beyond dog whistles. He's directly compared what he considers undesirable ehtnic populations to wolves who need to be shot. He's just openly calling for ethnic cleansing by now. Let me prefix this with that DHH's opinions suck, not sure what he's going through but clearly something, and that blog post you're referencing is terrible in lots of ways. But he's not openly calling for ethnic cleansing, you're doing speaking against him a disservice by not providing an accurate view of what shit thing he said. It's still terrible, the verbatim quotes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448148), but deporting isn't the same as "ethnic cleansing". Even people we disagree with vehemently should be disagreed with honestly. Then that blog post is just one of many where he've essentially gone of the rails in terms of hardline authoritarianism and fascist ideas, which makes it kind of weird he's getting the financial support he's getting. But then some just don't care about what viewpoints others have, I suppose that's a valid stance too even if I disagree with it.
      • rbanffy 2mo ago
        > but deporting isn't the same as "ethnic cleansing". I’m sorry, but forcibly deporting people because of their ethnic background is the very definition of ethnic cleansing. In general, if people use violence on the population as a way to either kill or forcibly expel them, there would be a strong case to call it a genocide.
        • embedding-shape 2mo ago
          > forcibly deporting people because of their ethnic background is the very definition of ethnic cleansing I agree, but I think if this is what you think he's arguing for, you either need to re-read the blog post, or you're not discussing that post honestly, which again does us all a disservice, regardless of how much we disagree with him or not.
          • lambda 2mo ago
            He uses a word that is a slur for the Romani, an ethnic minority in many European countries. He never discusses nationality. He also compares deporting them (to where, you might ask) to shooting wolves. It's also not his only post on the topic. He has previous ones where he complains of how horrible London is because white British people no longer constitute a majority. He calls for not just ends to immigration and closing borders, but "remigration". It is very clear from these posts that he strongly believes that non white ethnic groups should be removed from European countries. If that's not ethnic cleansing, I don't know what is.
  • noir_lord 2mo ago
    Beyond human hearing for a whistle but within the frequency a dog can hear a whistle, i.e. a slightly tongue in cheek way to call it a dog whistle.