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In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition. The concept is named after ultrasonic dog whistles , which are audible to dogs but not humans.
Critics of Donald Trump believe he may be using racist dog whistles while discussing Black litigators and political opponents in the wake of his latest indictment.. Mr Trump was indicted yet again ...
The former president’s ‘dog-whistle’ statements add to decades of racially driven attacks, Alex Woodward reports Trump’s barely veiled ‘riggers’ dog whistle underlines former president ...
Veteran Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher explained what he believes is the racist element to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ (R) recent swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris, the ...
During the heyday of the civil rights movement, defenders of racial segregation [48] [c] used the term "states' rights" as a code word in what is now referred to as dog-whistle politics: political messaging that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different, or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup.
Ian Haney López, Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, refers to the phenomenon of racial coding as dog-whistle politics, which, he argues, has pushed middle class white Americans to vote against their economic self-interest to punish "undeserving minorities" which, they believe, are receiving too much public assistance ...
The Associated Press’s report follows an email sent to the outlet from a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time, that proved concerns ...
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