The Volatile Mermaid
Dog whistle to English dictionary:
Soros - Jews
Coastal elites - Jews
New York values - Jews
Hollywood liberals - Jews
Globalists - Jews
International bankers - Jews
American Jews - Jews who dare question Israel’s government
I hope you enjoyed this week’s Jews Clues
djr
@OhNoSheTwitnt
Usage in #Britain is slightly different. Obviously no references to Coastal elites, New York values or Hollywood liberals and American Jews.
Instead references to #NorthLondon, #cosmopolitans and #citizensofnowhere. But approach otherwise very similar.
Jarvis Slacks
Oh, this is a fun game.
Urban - Blacks
Woke - Blacks
Poor neighborhoods - Blacks
Struggling students - Blacks
Angus McIntyre
@OhNoSheTwitnt @JamesGleick For some reason the linguistics books that go on about how the Inuit have seventy different words for snow never mention that fascists have more than ninety distinct ways of saying “Jews”.
Time to update the textbooks, I think.
Mushifoot
@OhNoSheTwitnt obligatory
Eli the Bearded
@OhNoSheTwitnt I see "self-hating Jew" sometimes. I think it is a cognate of "American Jew" in your list, but I'm not sure
DrGecko
@OhNoSheTwitnt Instead of "American Jews," I usually hear "self-hating Jews."
Charlotte Walker
@OhNoSheTwitnt @theropologist Here in the UK it’s references to “north London”
Sue Cohen
@OhNoSheTwitnt
Nailed it!
#GOPAntiSemites used to try & hide their hate but now it's in full view
Anyone wonder why there is only 1 Jewish member in all of @GOP Congress?
When we say #NeverAgain we fucking mean it!
When they say "Soros?"
They mean Jew!
GOP is the Party of Hate
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@OhNoSheTwitnt the funny thing about Soros is he is one of 780 or so billionaires in the US.
But Koch, Mercer, Scaife, Bernard Marcus, Wilks Bro, the Waltons, Tech Bros Koshla, Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and hundreds more spend hundreds of millions every year collaboratively some for a half century to wage political and economic war on the republic are ignored. These are plutocracy that have the America we live in.
SLCW💥
@OhNoSheTwitnt George Soros is apparently the most powerful being walking the Earth. ?
wendinoakland
@OhNoSheTwitnt Cosmopolitans: also Jews
clacke
Some people don't seem to understand what dog whistles are, or pretend not to understand.
All of these terms are distinct and relevant terms with different meanings that could be used to criticize specific concepts or individuals. If they weren't, they wouldn't be dog whistles, they'd just be slurs.
A dog whistle is intended to sound reasonable and specific to the general public, to give the speaker the shield of respectability and plausible deniability, but to people who subscribe to the same conspiracy theory they mean something other than their face value.
If someone uses a lot of these words, the words are more likely to be a nudge and a wink to the in-group than actual intended specific criticism.
Not My Job
@OhNoSheTwitnt In the 1920s 'cosmopolitan' was the equivalent term.
eriklundegaard
@OhNoSheTwitnt I'm sure someone in the responses has posted this WEST WING scene but it never hurts to repost. It's the moment Toby became my favorite character:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spspaHL_2Ao
TootUncommon
I'm always astounded at how much the republicans hate Jews but love Israel.
clacke
The Volatile Mermaid
@cgsines which is so fuckin dumb anyway we make up less than a percent of the world’s population
for a day, while . . .
one would think that “the Jews will not replace us” would have been more than a clue, but here we are
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