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Libertarian Party Thinks It’s OK to Tweet at Black People About Picking Crops (newrepublic.com)

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The Libertarian Party compared slavery to affordable health care in an attack on former Ohio state Senator Nina Turner.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is called "dog whistling".

Conservative says something offensive.

Conservative Base has a chuckle.

Progressives (rightly) try to hold them accountable.

Conservative base thinks its hilarious that progressives are so upset.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Mate, thats not dog whistling.

Dog Whistling is when you say something that has a hidden meaning to a group that they recognise.

This is simply overt racism.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As another poster mentioned, this isn't dog whistling. I think it's close to the card says moops

Also there is the famous quote by Sartre:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's not dog whistling...