Kind of exhaustedly disappointed to hear Anita Sarkeesian using the SWERF dog whistle "prostituted women" in her latest video.
@wirehead2501 term that sounds like normal words but has special meaning to a particular group, so you can steganograph public discourse
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@wirehead2501 by analogy with how most of the sound output of dog whistles is in a frequency range dogs can hear but humans can't -
@wirehead2501 "prostituted women" is part dog whistle, part shibboleth, really
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@chaosprime hmm, thanks. unsure how that's different from any term that's well-defined in a certain context but has broader popular meaning. -
@wirehead2501 using the term dog whistle implies that a political point is being made, such as "all sex workers are trafficking victims" -
@chaosprime gotcha. thanks, i've seen that term a few times now and hadn't gotten around to figuring it out. -
@wirehead2501 *nodnod* more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics … if you want it -
@chaosprime gawd, i hate politics -
@wirehead2501@chaosprime the only thing worse is everything else we’ve tried.
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