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Not really interested in engaging directly with the couple posts about dog whistles currently circulating, as the people involved don't seem inclined to take disagreement gracefully, but my take on the subject is this: "dog whistle" is a useful concept in cases, and only in cases, where the statement in question covertly conveys actual semantic content.

To take a classic (now mostly defunct, due to being widely recognized) example of this, consider the term "thug." It's widely acknowledged that conservative politicians and commentators in recent years have used this term in a way that's meant to specifically connote black (and occasionally Latino) people, and connect them with violent crime, in a deniable way. After all, the strict denotation of the word just means any violent criminal, and well really if your first thought on hearing it is of blacks and Latinos that means you're the racist, not them, etc. It concretely allows people to communicate unpopular ideas to those who agree with said ideas without getting as much flak from those who disagree with them.

This is a standard of which all this "friendpilled visitmaxxer" 4chan-esque language falls notably short. Talking about being a locationpilled scampercel isn't telling anyone coded messages about how you want to crack down on racial minorities in urban areas or that you agree with that one weird McCain ad from 2008 that Barack Obama is the antichrist. At most, it could signal some sort of affiliation with the far-right, but as loving-not-heyting pointed out in that thread, a signal of that sort that creates a bunch of false positives from people who just like meme words is actually the opposite of useful for a movement.

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@hilarythehamburger

hater of socks

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@hilarythehamburger

Which is Your Black Cat?

#cats #comics

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okay what did i miss

(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)

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can you get that weird guy out of here please. I’m starting to feel a little bit flustered and i don’t want to confront & come to terms with that right now

#text post meme resources

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REBLOG if you are old enough to remember what a VCR is.

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Cry me a River /3

😭

#the untamed

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how lucky we are to live in a world where tiramisu exists

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#sorry eleanor but i feel confident i could defeat you

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"Hearing the last part, Jiang Cheng remembered the past three months of rushing about and working day and night. He felt somewhere moved, but quickly put on a harsh face"

#the untamed

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#about me #ive has one yes #but what about SECOND little trip to the sea

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yall gotta be nicer about m/f  bc sometimes u guys like the blandest gay sutff ive ever seen in my life

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the spirit is not willing and the flesh it is not so into the idea either

#text post meme resources

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wei wuxian you have to stop. you smoke too tough. your swag too different. your bitch is too bad. they'll kill you

#text post meme resources

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#lotr

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

#this is a MAGNIFICENT collection of tags #funny

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Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.

#text post meme resources