In this 21st century
certain words are now dog whistles that symbolize codes.
According to Wikipedia, “acronyms
and abbreviations can be considered codes, and in a sense all languages
and writing systems are codes for human thought.”
For instance, the words third
world countries was originally coined during the cold war to signify those nations
that were aligned with the Soviet Union.
After the end of the cold war,
the neologism of third world countries was used to signify nations
that had not advanced economically and whose people were perpetually unable to
get enough food to sustain them, thus needing aid from prosperous Western
nation countries.
The meaning of the word euphemism
is according to Oxford Dictionaries a mild or indirect word or expression
substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something
unpleasant or embarrassing.
The third world countries were often
privately referred to with the euphemism or neologism to
connote hell hole countries.
Most recently in
2018 POTUS 45, according to Senator Dick Durbin used the euphemism
that connotes shit hole, but POTUS 45 claims he used the neologism
that connotes ass hole.
All of the above caused a world
wide furor.
Every major media source world
wide feigned the euphemism that connotes shit hole with the
word racist.
A racist is a
person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others, however a racist
is also a bigot which connotes a prejudiced person who is intolerant of
any opinions differing from his own.
All of the above fits the
definition of dog whistle politics.
Figuratively,
a dog whistle is a coded message communicated through words or
phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others.
Our country is divided by the 2
political parties unable to govern because a variety of all of the above code
words are used to tar and feather.
