Dog-Whistle Racism is political campaigning or policy-making that uses coded words and themes to appeal to conscious or subconscious racist concepts and frames.
For example, the concepts ‘welfare queen,’ ’states’ rights,’ ‘Islamic terrorist,’ ‘uppity,’ 'thug,' 'tough on crime,' and ‘illegal alien’ all activate racist concepts that that have already been planted in the public consciousness and now are being activated by purposeful or accidental campaign activities, media coverage, public policy and cultural traditions.
So, what’s dog whistle racism? It’s pure political theater to push buttons to win elections and policies. StopDogWhistleRacism.com, a project of the Center for Social Inclusion, is here to identify, expose and help you to track it. Join us.
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I applaud your efforts. This election cycle has done more damage to race relations than I could have imagined.
Beginning with Ryburn’s unfair and untruthful comments about Bill Clinton in South Carolina to the downright malicious comments coming from the Obama supporters. Disagreeing with someone’s political stance isn’t racist and it is demeaning to be called a racist just because you don’t support the policies of a certain candidate.
This Web site is an unfortunate and utter joke and nothing more than a thinly-veiled effort to promote your own personal and political agenda.
Until we can stop over-using and hiding behind the word in an effort to justify hatred in our hearts and minds and instead begin to try and understand each other and reach a middle ground, the divide will continue to grow until one day all that will be left in an extremely hopeless abyss that sucks us all in to the point of no return.
Thanks for starting this site. We all have to do are part and if it wasn’t for blogs and youtube getting the truth out there. McCain would probably be winning this thing
This is fantastic, you have a link on the left side of your webpage to BlackAmericaweb to be non racist you must also put up a link to WiteAmericaweb where they defend there interests. In all fairness, have to be fair as a South-African I follow American news from Amren.com it is the most informative news page for white Americans. In South Africa we the white minority don’t have one tenth of the minority rights black Americans have, if a white man insults a black man it is racism if a black man kills you and rape you wife or daughter its only crime, everybody suffers under crime they tell me. I can’t wait for America to become minority white, you have so much to learn.