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What's your favorite example of a non-nazi dog whistle? (lemmy.zip)
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Basically just something people say that indicates a position indirectly, like how seperatists from a given region might always say they're from [region] and not [country] or how trump supporters call AI "SI" now.

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[–] [S] 17 points 4 hours ago (13 children)

My favorite example is how francophone leftists or those who dislike america will call americans "USians". (Américain -> États-Unien)

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  • [–] 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    I call people from the US that as I respect the other nations in the Americas who are also Americans - from Chilean people to Canadian. All American. Neither of them USian.

    But, I do also hate US Defaultism because it shows a lack of knowledge/understanding/awareness which only plays into the stereotypes that people from the US are stupid and ignorant. Which I think is disparaging to (some of) them, and they could show they aren't by being using self-aware language. Hence, "USian" . It's like how "woke" originated too - i.e. "awake" to institutional bigotry.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I do agree that American defaultism only hurts them, but at least in english it's rare enough that saying "American" doesn't count as US defaultism imo, I'm in Québec and I'd say at least 20% of people here say that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago

    yeah someone was talking to me like. well its not the name. the name is the united states of america. and im like. well its the republic of ireland but people just call it ireland. lots of countries have a sorta descritive official name with elements of what it is.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    Ehhhh I’m an anglophone USian, and use “USian”. Am leftist though so maybe you’re onto something lol

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    I've never heard someone say that irl, although I have seen it on lemmy, but I've heard tons of people say the french equivalent irl, which is why I said it was francophones. It is based to say it in english though.

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