a dog whistle is a coded message communicated through words or phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others.
Here is a very clear example perfectly explained by former Republican Party strategist Lee Atwater, when giving an anonymous interview discussing former president Richard Nixon's Southern strategy, speculated that terms like "states' rights" were used for dog-whistling in 1981:
"You start out in 1954 by saying, "N--r, n---r, n---r." By 1968, you can't say "n----r" – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now, you're talking about cutting taxes. And all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me – because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this" is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N---r, n---r."
It is definitely being heavily utilized today if you know how to look for it...
anyways do you think you can tell?


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