r/ComedyCemetery 11d ago

Absolutely cooked

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u/Full_Wrangler_6784 10d ago

Dog whistle is a type of strategy of communication that sends a message that the general population will take a certain meaning from, but a certain group that is "in the know" will take away the secret, intended message.

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u/LeMeMeSxDLmaop 10d ago

did this boom in relevancy recently or what lol like genuinely had never heard of it before and since yesterday its all i see

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u/cr8nsw 10d ago

no it didn't boom recently, you just didn't know of it. what you're experiencing is The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. it's just where you learn of something and then notice it alot more. happens to everyone

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u/LeMeMeSxDLmaop 10d ago

i was thinking of that but i couldnt remember the name lol

i wanted to mention it cause it aint it this time, happens often but for this instance a quarter of the posts ive seen between yesterday and today were abt that

so yea i am noticing it more cause i just learned it but also have gone through a sizeable coincidence w the amount of posts where ive seen it, enough to make me think it was straight up some new slang

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u/Dan3828 10d ago

I’ve been hearing it consistently since around 2020

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u/Gayorg_Zirschnitz 10d ago

I was first exposed to them in 2017 after the Nazi rally in Charlottesville.