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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by Chris2048 on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:11AM (#22664833)
By dog whistle, you are suggesting what? By "shared national culture" he's talking about something racist?

Isn't that exactly the "national culture is hateful and outdated" notion he's talking about?

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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by fader on Monday March 23, 2020 @11:52AM (#22665188)
Yes, characterizing any anti-racist efforts as being "told for decades that said national culture is hateful" and "must be destroyed without any decent replacement" is a dogwhistle.

This sort of cherry picking and sliding definition of terms while pretending to be "just asking some questions", however, is known as sealioning: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sealioning

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Re:The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty by Chris2048 on Monday March 23, 2020 @01:47PM (#22666615)
> characterizing any anti-racist efforts as..

I know what a dog-whistle is, I'm asking why you think you know OP is referring to "anti-racist efforts".

> This sort of cherry picking..

What are you referring to as "this"? my comments? I don't see the words you quoted (""just asking some questions").

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