Perhaps that is what's happening here. A dog whistle is, after all, an appropriate metaphor because only those in certain circumstances can "hear" the message, in this case the folks of the Deep South for whom (again) the Jim Crow laws are a social norm that should have been continued, but weren't because of yet more interference from those Northerners. Northerners (like yourself) have not been steeped in this cultural history; you therefore don't hear the whistle. As I explained, that whistle was explained to me by a friend with southern family; I didn't get it before that explanation, either.
I think I'll take the word of someone with ties to the South over another Northerner like yourself. Nothing personal. You just don't have the right "ears." I might try to confirm/debunk my suspicions with another Southerner later (could be much later, as our work schedules no longer mesh), one who also happens to hail from a rabidly racist family and who is, himself, quite admittedly racist (though, as he also admitted, "mellowing with age").
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Date: 15/10/13 21:19 (UTC)And sometimes it's a big, fat, Freudian dick.
Perhaps that is what's happening here. A dog whistle is, after all, an appropriate metaphor because only those in certain circumstances can "hear" the message, in this case the folks of the Deep South for whom (again) the Jim Crow laws are a social norm that should have been continued, but weren't because of yet more interference from those Northerners. Northerners (like yourself) have not been steeped in this cultural history; you therefore don't hear the whistle. As I explained, that whistle was explained to me by a friend with southern family; I didn't get it before that explanation, either.
I think I'll take the word of someone with ties to the South over another Northerner like yourself. Nothing personal. You just don't have the right "ears." I might try to confirm/debunk my suspicions with another Southerner later (could be much later, as our work schedules no longer mesh), one who also happens to hail from a rabidly racist family and who is, himself, quite admittedly racist (though, as he also admitted, "mellowing with age").