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[–] t3rmit3 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are missing the point; yes, the point of a dogwhistle is to appear innocuous. Which is precisely why, sans supporting evidence, you cannot simply assume that innocuous speech is a dogwhistle. A term that only ever implies something bad isn't a dogwhistle. You have to have other patterns of behavior that back up interpreting the innocuous language as that... and you don't.

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