Talk:Dog whistle politics
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[edit] Dred Scott
Why is this here? The Dred Scott case was about blacks in the US and their inability to claim citizenship. 137.165.160.181 (talk) 18:21, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
... but the cat does exactly what it pleases — Unsigned, by: 82.44.143.26 / talk / contribs 16:07, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Academic Freedom
I think that the term "academic freedom" fits the description of dog whistle politics. This term is used by creationists and ID proponents for bills that would allow the introduction of materials that question legitimate science (usually evolution, but also can be used to attack climate science or even U.S. history). The bills are introduced under the noble facade of fairness and open-mindedness, but are really used as back doors for teachers to posit religious "theories" as alternatives to established scientific ones.— Unsigned, by: 129.33.1.37 / talk / contribs
[edit] Lee Atwater
I don't feel this page would really be complete without his infamous quote
“You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."”174.77.62.107 (talk) 19:37, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
[edit] fringe christian sects?
First of all, is Pentecostalism as a whole really a fring sect? I'm pretty Pentecostalism is a mainline Protestant group. Second, dog whistle or not, it's not to do with politics, and the title of the article is "dog whistle politics." Maybe we could have a "dog whistle religion article," as I'm sure there are way way more religions than just Pentecostals doing woo-ish or evil shizz and using coded language to sound normal. Rand0 (talk) 10:07, 28 September 2014 (UTC)