How someone detects dog whistling?

@darthmongoose Kate Holden
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:24:25 +0000

@darthmongoose wrote:

Dogwhistles tend to rely heavily on the intended audience being deeply immersed in the history and culture, so they're easily missed by people from other countries or outside the intended group, because the exact words used easily read as innocent statements. I mean, that's what makes them effective dogwhistles.
If somebody talks about "urban crime" and they know, and the audience knows the intended meaning is "crime committed by black people", there's literally no way a third party can prove that, and anyone who tries will get jumped on by people saying "all they said was urban crime, why are you making this about race!?"