[MAexile]

New code words like Detroit, Chicago, "Stand Your Ground," voter ID, food stamps and welfare now carry the same impact with dog whistle messages...

I was wondering how long it was going to take to get to the "Dog whistle".

[Mrs. Don-o]

I remember something like 40 years ago, a black congresswomen saying that when white people talk about "social problems" they are always looking at her. When they say "welfare" they mean black; when they say "drugs" they mean black, and when they say "crime" they mean black.

My thoughts were: are you, personally, over-sensitive to the extent that you think everyone is looking at you, Madame Congresswoman?

Are you over-generalizing a tad? Even uniersalizing? Are you saying white people are not concerned about white welfare, drugs, or crime?

And to the extent that the generalization is there as applied to black people, is the generalization true?

I asked this of a young public speaker (white) just 2 weeks ago, who was delivering a presentation against hate speech. My question: Is truth a defense?

[BwanaNdege]

Who you be callin’ a DOG, dude?

R U dissin’ me?

/sarc

[griswold3]

And one has to ask, “Just who, exactly, is being conditioned by the ‘dog whistles’?”