You've been hearing those imaginary racist dog whistles:
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| Decoding Republican Dog Whistles: A Tutorial
Commissarka Pinkie
8/18/2012, 10:04 am
Racism. Hatred. Intolerance. The bread, butter, and gravy of the Republican Party. They’re in everything a conservative Republican says and does and thinks. And yet, hypocrites that—no, stupid hypocrites that they are, they think they can conceal their insidious agenda by use of secret coding in the simplest and seemingly most innocuous statements.
In many if not all cases, these are statements that you or I might utter on any given day at any given moment, and no one will think anything of it. But rolling off the venom-dripping, forked tongue of a conservative, those same statements, as if by magic, are twisted and perverted into testaments of hatred against blacks, women, gays, Muslims, Aspiring Americans*, poor people, old people, children, cute baby animals, and anyone else who isn’t a Republican.
Republicans are so stupid, they think only “their own kind” will hear the message of reprehensible evil bubbling beneath the surface of every little thing they say—hence the term “dog whistle.” But they’re wrong, which is scarcely surprising since they’re wrong about everything.
In this brief tutorial, we will show you how Republicans turn ordinary words into synonyms for hate and mass destruction, thus enabling you to hear or read anything they say or write and immediately detect the racism and mean-spirited intolerance that poisons every syllable they spew.
Example 1:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
How often did you see this while goofing off in the typewriter aisle while your mom shopped for a new girdle? That was a long time ago, wasn’t it? Long before we had our first black president and affordable health care for all; when the ultimate destruction of the planet due to man-made global warming was still all of ten years away instead of only the current five. It almost makes you feel nostalgic for the Carter years, until you consider what it means if a Republican happens to say it or type it out.
Let us break it down and analyze it, and you will see not one, not two, but THREE dog-whistles!
Now is the time: Racist! The Republican is obviously referencing Obama’s time in office.
For all good men: In other words, bad men need not apply. Republicans think all minorities are bad—and because Republicans are sexist as well as racist, they don’t even bother to use the more gender-neutral term “people.” No, Republicans only recognize men, and rich white ones at that. Men are the only ones who matter.
To come to the aid of their country: In other words, to take back what Republicans believe is their country, and only their country, from anyone who doesn’t look or think like they do.
Example 2:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
When Republicans use this phrase, rest assured they are not engaging in an old public school writing exercise that uses every letter of the alphabet—because they hate public schools, and they hate public school teachers and they hate public school teachers’ unions, and they hate free school lunches and they hate the children who go to public schools.
No, instead the Republican is only stating what we already know—that Fox News is racist, and thinks it’s superior in every way to the lazy dog, which is exactly what they think of Barack Obama! They think all he does is go on vacation and play golf—in other words, they think he’s lazy—and he did say once that Republicans and their minions on Fox and right wing talk radio “talk about me like a dog.”
As for the word brown—a Republican will never use that word for any reason except to be racist. And Fox News, as stated above, is racist.
Now that you see how ridiculously easy it is to decode Republican dog whistles, try it for yourself. Take any common or popular phrase or saying and see how many coded hate words you can find when theoretically attributed to any Republican.
Don’t worry that you might be accused of racism by a Republican. That’s easily remedied. Just accuse them of taking your words out of context, and then ask why Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns. It shuts ’em up every time.
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*Formerly known as Undocumented Americans. Doesn’t “Aspiring” sound so much warmer and fuzzier? Try it yourself. Doesn’t it make you sound as if you really care? And in turn, doesn’t that make you feel good about yourself? And isn’t that what being a prog is all about?
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/decoding-republican-dog-whistles-a-tutorial-t9471.html
Another perfect example that's (very occasionally) mentioned in non-public-school history books:
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!"
Uttered by possibly the most evil and corrupt American president of all time, Ronald >spit< Reagan, most people believed at the time that he was telling the Soviet Union's Glorious Leader to stop its beneficent aid and provision for an entire half of a foreign nation, known then as East Germany.
But, no.
Cleverly (he thought) disguised in this hateful rhetoric were a number of disgusting Rethugglikkkan dog whistles:
1) in the very first word, Reagan attempted to slight Comrade Gorbachev by calling him "Mr." - NOT "Comrade", NOT "President", but the lowly "Mr.".
2) "tear down", of course, referred directly to what the Rethugglikkkans have always done to the efforts of minorities, Aspiring Americans, kittens, and - now with Romney and Ryan - the elderly.
3) "this" - obviously a claim to own the Berlin wall - what business was it of Reagan's? Hmmm?? Rethugglikkkans think they own everything and this was a barely concealed threat that there would be OTHER walls following this one's tearing down.
4) "wall" - a snide reference to then only in the planning stages USSA southern border wall, much as if to say "OUR wall will be superior, so tear this one down!"
Commissarka, thank you for bringing up this topic. Especially in the weeks immediately before us, when the Rethugglikkkan controlled media will be filling the airwaves with lies and deception like never before, it's important that we be on the lookout for these dog whistles of hate!
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