I disagree. It's definitely a thing, but we on the left have a bad habit of seeing patterns that aren't really there.
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We're especially prone to mistaking ignorance and/or apathy for active, deliberate malice. I think that's dangerous.
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Saying "thugs" or "inner cities" instead of "black people". Saying "neurotic" instead of "Jews". 14. (((This thing))).
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And sometimes, we identify dog whistles that actually aren't. eg, "New York values" meaning "Jews", when it clearly doesn't.
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Trump has spent the entire all of time whining about how evil outsiders are gonna ruin America forever.
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Replying to @orbdweaver @FilmCritHULK
It seems suspect to me to assume he actually doesn't believe any of that because he used air quotes once.
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ENGLISH, TO INADVERTENTLY REVEAL THE ACTUAL SCAPEGOATING THAT IS OCCURRING.
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OK YEAH SORRY WE WERE JUST MISUNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER. ALL GOOD. CHEERS.
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To Devin's point, a legitimate possibility is that he's so dumb that he just doesn't know how to use quotes
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Replying to @Craigrsandler @FilmCritHULK
I think the dog-whistling definitely seems plausible. But I've also known people to use punctuation in random..
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