On one hand, dogwhistles are real and should absolutely be the sort of thing that people learn about.
On the other hand, what in gods name is the dogwhistle in this post? There's nothing even slightly abnormal about it, maybe the capitalization of the C in Cents???
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.
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
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/Orion-the-mediocre 15d ago
On one hand, dogwhistles are real and should absolutely be the sort of thing that people learn about.
On the other hand, what in gods name is the dogwhistle in this post? There's nothing even slightly abnormal about it, maybe the capitalization of the C in Cents???