Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
by mffnbs on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:24PM
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Being conscious of dog whistles isn't expanding the white supremacist classification. A single false positive by Twitter of all places isn't indicative of a trend.
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Re:SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
by manfredo on Thursday May 16, 2019 @09:52PM
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> Being conscious of dog whistles isn't expanding the white supremacist classification.
It does when allegations of dog whistling are levied against mainstream viewpoints. Saying "build the wall" is a white supremacist dog whistle is absolutely a means of expanding white supremacy to encompass support border enforcement. Nothing about building a wall on a national border is white supremacist. White supremacists may be in favor of such a viewpoint, but that does not make the viewpoint itself white supremacist.
Accusations of dog whistling is a very cheap and effective way of stuffing words into one's opponents' mouths and many do use it to try and paint acceptable views as white supremacist.