Full post here: https://www.tumblr.com/brightlotusmoon/727204642739617792
Posting this to make up for accidentally posting a dog whistle earlier. Oops
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This may be controversial, but I think the way to combat dog whistles like this is to overuse them and muddy the waters. Make it so the Nazi’s aren sure whether the “pattern noticer” they are interacting with are antisemitic or not.
ISIS went from being an Egyptian goddess and a great band to a poorly translated acronym for a terrorist organization because everyone let the terrorists win on that one. The swastika has been a neat and simple symbol used by a variety of cultures with a variety of meanings ranging from positive to neutral until it was taken by the Nazi’s. 88 is a really neat looking number that’s done nothing wrong.
Society keeps on ceding cultural ground to assholes and the rest of us have to tiptoe through every piece of communication in fear of being associated with them.
What’s next? How long until some fascists start to use the “cool s” that we all doodled in our notebooks in school? Are we going to have to stop using any numbers with less than 3 digits? Will Allah, Jupiter, and Thor join Isis as symbols of fear?
But, the whole point is to have the waters muddied. That’s why it’s called a dog whistle, because only the dogs (the intended audience) will hear the whistle (recognize the true intent behind the phrase).
So fight mud with mud and make it harder to recognize the true intent.
Or better yet, make it so that the symbols are just way more commonly associated with non-asshole meanings.
It’s like the ok sign. It’s only a dog whistle when combined with other things. Mudding the water doesn’t work when there’s layers unless you muddy the layers. But then they just add a layer
Better to let them use it and out themselves
Great points. Here is the original post:
I honestly interpreted this as a socially awkward way of trying to do small talk - for example talking about weather
Me, too. But I definitely know about the dogwhistle when they phrase it as “stop noticing things.” Subtlety makes it an effective dogwhistle. They will steal vocabulary and concepts from anywhere to spread their bigotry and hatred.
It reminds me of this old man named Adolf, who when asked why he didn’t change his name after WW2, he said “I’m not going to let an asshole with a stupid mustache take away my name”
I’ve got so much respect for people who fight the good fight and continue posting Pepe in 2024.
Reclaim the fuckin runes! They look cool, are easy to carve in different materials and are a part of my historical heritage
As someone who has read primary sources on actual Norse/Germanic/Rus/Whatever religious rites:
Lol no, let the Nazis have it, that shit was fucked and the revisionism is always either a cover for white supremacy or some hipster idiots that can’t admit God is dead.
If you’re just interested in the alphabet just make a new, even cooler one… Your grandkid’s heritage starts with you.
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Look at the full post, it is about the alt-right conspiracy of Jews running the world. Also has other racist stuff too.
All is dog whistle. Especially patterns.
Patterns are a government psyop.
Or you could actually read the post
The problem with the concept of a “dog whistle” is that it’s non-falsifiable. Anyone at any time can declare that word X actually refers, secretly, to concept Y. No evidence required, and if people buy the claim then it makes the concept of X un-conveyable.
The problem with that problem is you can say any kind of accusation of racist behavior is non-falsifiable in the same way (“You can’t prove I was shitty to them because they were black, maybe I was shitty to them because they’re just a jerk”), but everyone knows racist behavior and dog whistles still exist
if people buy the claim
This is a good demonstration of why the concept of dog whistles isn’t really a problem, because when it’s a totally absurd accusation people aren’t going to buy it.
