Is every word and number going to get colonised as dogwhistle until all of language has become a minefield ? Why do we even give air to this shit ? It seems to me acknowledging it is to give it power and legitimacy.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Kind of like asking if we can stop picking up stones and rocks and using them to beat each other and instead use them to build homes.

This isn't a new fight. There will always be people who take our tools and abuse them by using them to hurt others. That's what we're fighting against, people who use our tools to hurt people instead of doing good. Unfortunately, if we just let people who collect stones and sticks for hurting people be, and not push them out of our village, they will just grow in number and strength so we can't just block it out, we can't live and let live around those who would take your life if they grew strong enough.

If it's tiring and annoying to see people have to always yell at the club-and-rock-wielding thugs and throw rocks back at them, you don't have to get involved, but don't decry those who DO have the courage to throw rocks back. If they didn't do this, the rocks would start hitting you next.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

I mean I just watched this explanation of the "sneed seed and feed" dogwhistle and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbo0IeWTY4 It doesn't seem to signal more than vague group membership appartenance. I think the thing with dogwhistle is they expire as they diffuse. Like teens drawing swastikas and penises just because it's offensive. This "41" is from more than a century ago. I think with these heirloom dogwhisles, you at least should check how much they really mean it are if they're just shitposters. You don't want the whiteknight stonethrowers to get bogged down by collateral damage, playing into their game and catching all the flak from "them"

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They've already ruined a perfectly good mustache, forever.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

We need a Ted Lasso-like character to neutralize it.