There are those who took "black lives matter" as having a dogwhistle, especially with objections to "all lives matter." There's also some substantiation that "diversity" is "anti-white," if you stretch your ears far enough:Fuzzy Necromancer wrote:I'm gonna say it's totally fair to be nervous/wary around things that say they are "Pro-white", because, well, any of ya'll familiar with the term "white genocide"? White Power? The fourteen words?
Pro-white statements are used as dogwhistles by racists in ways that, say, "black lives matter" are not.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-v ... up-2017-10
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -sign.html
I take a skeptical eye toward both of those positions because the problem with dog whistles, IMHO, is that sometimes the sound you don't hear really isn't there, and it would be unfair to take those advocating "diversity" or that "black lives matter" as dishonest unless I had some really good evidence that's what it means to most of the people using it.
If one is allowed to take an innocuous statement such as "It's OK to be white" or "black lives matter" and attack it for what it doesn't say, without strong supporting evidence for that point of view, what speech is left?
Or, indeed, when the other side only hears what they want to hear anyway, what is the point of speaking at all?