Oh damn, i misread your first comment. While typing a reply I realized it… I thiought you said “I’m thinking that’s what a dog whistle means.” I agree with you then, I was just being flexible with the term because the poster above used it. I dont think it’s a dog whistle either, just that it’s easily co-opted for good regardless of what kind of racist term it is.
For posterity, the comment I was typing I left below. Only read if you really care, otherwise probably not worth your time hahaha
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Ok I guess what I meant is that Dogwhistles are ways to hide a terrible thing under a more palatable phrase and so ‘call the dogs to you’ without it being heard by everyone else. That’s what your 3 phrases do, hide a negative thing within a neutral or maybe not even noticable phrase. Saying “Chinese think in centuries” or whatever similar thing isn’t hiding that sort of negative, really. If you already are afraid of China, you think “it’s scary because they’re better than us in a way which could allow their domination.” But that’s something that is simultaneously a positive.
So it’s easier to counter because you just reply “well shouldn’t we just also change our economic system to do this clearly good thing that they do for themselves?” Meanwhile, with “state’s rights”, the hidden message is that they should have the right to enslave people. That is not flippable in the way that the first one is.
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Oh damn, i misread your first comment. While typing a reply I realized it… I thiought you said “I’m thinking that’s what a dog whistle means.” I agree with you then, I was just being flexible with the term because the poster above used it. I dont think it’s a dog whistle either, just that it’s easily co-opted for good regardless of what kind of racist term it is.
For posterity, the comment I was typing I left below. Only read if you really care, otherwise probably not worth your time hahaha
" Ok I guess what I meant is that Dogwhistles are ways to hide a terrible thing under a more palatable phrase and so ‘call the dogs to you’ without it being heard by everyone else. That’s what your 3 phrases do, hide a negative thing within a neutral or maybe not even noticable phrase. Saying “Chinese think in centuries” or whatever similar thing isn’t hiding that sort of negative, really. If you already are afraid of China, you think “it’s scary because they’re better than us in a way which could allow their domination.” But that’s something that is simultaneously a positive.
So it’s easier to counter because you just reply “well shouldn’t we just also change our economic system to do this clearly good thing that they do for themselves?” Meanwhile, with “state’s rights”, the hidden message is that they should have the right to enslave people. That is not flippable in the way that the first one is. "