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The way you are using qualifiers on the other hand is stating in no uncertain terms that conservatives are violent, and speak in dog whistles. All of them
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Pardon me? Would you care to clarify that? That comment is uncalled for and baseless.
You need to stop looking at my posts through those shaded glasses of yours, Fred.
"Shaded glasses" and "baseless". Wow... Okay, well true to the point of this whole thread, let's lay out in greater detail this latest example of you dividing and labeling, based on nothing but political affiliation. (Side note: Replace "conservative" in similar broad based labeling situations with say, women, blacks, gays, Jews or liberals, and I invite the reader to ask themselves how it might sound).
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Conservatives in America have been talking about Civil War for quite some time now. Having been raised by conservatives and spent much time around them I have been able to see this for myself.
Conservatives were lacking a national leader to back them. Now they have one.
Conservatives brag on a regular basis about how they have guns and "the other side" doesn't. They know who they're gonna go shoot. And if someone is a heretic or unpatriotic they don't really have to think about the humanity of the person, do they?
They have a leader who tells them that the other team "hates America" and "is not Patriotic". He speaks in a code they understand perfectly.
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Conservatives brag on a regular basis about how they have guns and "the other side" doesn't. They know who they're gonna go shoot.
So conservatives "know who they're gonna shoot", but that's not saying they are violent eh?
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They have a leader who tells them that the other team "hates America" and "is not Patriotic". He speaks in a code they understand perfectly
You're the one who first turned me on to what "dog whistle politics" is, and that's *precisely* what you are saying is going on there, just as I accurately pointed out.
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Dog-whistle politics is political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different, or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. The analogy is to a dog whistle, whose ultrasonic whistling sound is heard by dogs but inaudible to humans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
And now once again my reaction to that of which you claim is so "uncalled for" and "baseless":
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The way you are using qualifiers on the other hand is stating in no uncertain terms that conservatives are violent, and speak in dog whistles. All of them.