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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.
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.
By 2020, columnists and left-leaning groups in the United States were increasing criticism of the term as hypocritical and a dog whistle in response to the use of the term by Donald Trump and his supporters during the George Floyd protests, [33] [34] with one outlet stating "[t]hroughout this nation's history, appeals to law and order have been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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The term derives from a physical "dog whistle"—an instrument that produces a sound undetectable to humans but bothersome to dogs. Likewise, what makes a dog whistle covert is that it does not expressly state a racist idea but a coded racial message that maintains a sense of plausible deniability. [27]
Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, expressed skepticism that law enforcement would fairly apply a mask ban based on historical precedent.