#DogWhistle

Feminist Leaning

feministleaning

I feel like everyone needs a tutorial on what a “dogwhistle” is.A dogwhistle is a statement only certain ppl understand the meaning & significance of, said for the purpose of

Robert of Riga

of_riga

what actually separates clever wordplay from dogwhistling? I'm not sure, but it seems important take 0: they point at the same concept with opposite emotional valences take 1: they both

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[SUDARSHAN TV]1/6I don't do this often but jeez, @Twitter, how is this man still around? How's he getting to polluting your platform with such impunity? This isn't dogwhistle, this is

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Risu_System

Okay I know we all know that bi pan lesbian harassers are pretty awful and ableist to systems but I'd like to bring up another side to it that I

William 🌹🛠🌽

b0ithorn

Having consumed hundreds of conservative tweets in the past 24 hours, I've identified an interesting phenomenon. "Omaha" is used as a dogwhistle in two different ways. 1. Conservatives outside of

Alexandra Rowland (FINDING FAERIES out now!)✨

_alexrowland

ok, my one important lesson from that "writing tips" thread I was gonna fact-check:the term "fetishizing abuse" is a TERF dogwhistle. If you see it or someone brings it up

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

Translation: white women, Black men, white women, Black men, white women, I am your saviour. When Trump says #SuburbanHousewife he signals “who will protect white women from being raped by

AntiFash Gordon

AntiFashGordon

Far-right Reopen protesters in Lansing, Michigan, are hanging an effigy of Governor Gretchen Whitmer.https://twitter.com/SarahGrimmerTV/status/1260941679802056705 Annnnnd some dude in a "We the People" sweatshirt-- a far-right anti-governme

non-namkooks dni⁷🌙

namkookdemon

this is what that candidate endorses. please do not engage, unless you want 875 put in actual danger like if there’s even the slightest chance that 875 becomes incorporated even

free to fic (foff)

freetofic

as the 'queer is a[n unreclaimed] slur' rhetoric is being reheated, let's take a moment to remember:1) some LGBTQ+ ppl feel discomfort being called 'queer' or lumped into the 'queer

Ben Collins

oneunderscore__

After a half-decade covering extremists and disinfo pipelines, this is the week the effects of this job really got to me.The anonymous people want me dead, the named are desperate

Baby Etrigan

aboynamedposh

So fucking depressing I do kinda want to know what counts as weird degenerate sex though I didn't realise fascism was so vanilla! Cannot stress enough this person is 41.

Bristol SU BME Network

BristolSUBME

1/6 The BME Network is horrified to see that posters have been put up all over campus that say "it's okay to be white".This phrase seems innocent on the surface,

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

Exactly, and again, the problem isn't that CTH is brainwashing people to be Nazis.The problem is that they're telling their audience it's cool to use Nazi memes "ironically," and using

Josh Jackson

JoshuaYJackson

‘Authoritarianism’ is a liberal dogwhistle that has no basis in socialism. Countries that break with the bourgeoisie & imperialism necessarily require a strong state to defend themselves from capitalist restoration

Shannon Salisbury, ABD (for now)

Miz_Salisbury

Time to revisit Ontario's Education Act: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90e02 Specifically the "religion and morals" section. Arguably, the "religion and morals" section makes the "learning" section a