[Ancapistani]

> I don’t see a important distinction between an explicit statement and dog-whistle so thinly veiled that everyone knows what it stands for.

That’s an interesting statement.

I’ve personally attended a memorial ceremony hosted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy where a Black woman spoke for an hour about the conditions under which Blacks, both enslaved and free, existed in the Confederacy. She was a UDC member, which means that she was a thoroughly documented descendant of a Confederate soldier. In her case, that was a man who was offered his freedom in exchange for military service.

You say “everyone knows it stands for”, but my experience says that a more truthful statement would be “most people believe they know what it stands for”.

[thebooktocome]

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