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Also the left projects and makes shit up constantly. Hell, one of their favorite phrases "dog whistle" means "My opponent did not say X, but I want him to say X, so I'm going to pretend he said X"
See that technique you just used is call "gaslighting." A dogwhistle is when you say something that's not exactly advocating for unspeakable ideas, but indicates that you hold those ideas and is intended to garner support. So when you said "Mohamed raped a 9 year old, and reddit doesn’t like that particular fact about that particular religion" you were dogwhistling to other islamophobes and hateful people the idea that all Muslims are child rapists.
Oh, nice, dog whistle inception! I never said the "all Muslims are child rapists", but you wanted me to have said "all Muslims are child rapists", so you're pretending I said "all Muslims are child rapists" anyway. And you claimed I was gas lighting, when it was you who was. Truly the shitty cherry on top.
No, what I really mean is Muslims worship a child rapist, which I thought was pretty clear.
You: "The left projects and makes shit up constantly!"
Also you: Proceeds to project and just make some shit up in the next goddamned sentence.
What did I make up? You can see @TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world use "dog whistle" in that exact fashion.
The problem with using the term "the left" (much like any board term) is that is definition is nebulous. Political leaning is relative to the reference ideals.
The point I'm getting at is that it's imaterial to your issue, with this one person and while you have your right to be upset with them it's a bad basis for an argument against a group especially one so ill defined.
I would argue that, in an informal and somewhat overvgeneralised sense, people do trend to the left and right sides. A person who hates abortion is more likely to be for gun rights, for example.
And in my experience, the people who use the term dog whistle tends to trend towards the left socially.
Just say you don't understand what did whistling is and move on
It's literally how its used. How would you define it?
Newsflash: Words can have unspoken connotations that signal your politics to a group of people. We call that "dogwhistling".
I find it hilarious how this comment has 11 likes which is pretty decent for the atmosphere here but the user got banned
The Left: Has literal truck loads of evidence that Dump tried to overthrow a democratic election to stay in power. Has literal truck loads of evidence that he stole (and probably tried to sell) our nuclear secrets.
The Right: BUT WHAT IF HUNTER BIDEN DID HAVE DICK PICS ON HIS PERSONAL LAPTOP?????
Yeah I see what you mean.
Now thats bait.
It isn't bait, it's the raw truth.
J6 Committee Report
Classified Document Indictment
All I hear from Republicans is toothless blathering about Hunter Bidens cock pics. No criminal charges, failed investigations, lies on top of lies. "But what if Hunter Biden...", "But his laptop!". Guess what, Hunter Biden is not an elected official, and even IF you managed to bring charges Joe remains president lol.