Basically just something people say that indicates a position indirectly, like how seperatists from a given region might always say they’re from [region] and not [country] or how trump supporters call AI “SI” now.
People wearing the Bad Dragon Logo
You know they’re the kind of pervert that is going to be a really chill hang.
For context, the company Bad Dragon make Fantasy Dildos. And their logo looks very innocuous, just a stylised dragon.
So it is sometimes worn by folks who know that only those who are in the know will know, as a form of dog whistle for being kinky
An example of one of their products:
NSFW, giant dildo
Like this?
How do I know that wasn’t Hitler’s dog whistle?
Recently I saw a Ford commercial that seemed to be saying "Fuck you! We’re gonna make our trucks even bigger!! ". Maybe I misinterpreted it.
When israelis refer to “Arabs” instead of Palestinians, a a code for untermenschen and a form of erasure.
They explicitly asked for non Nazi examples
When you blow into a special whistle and a dog hears it and comes to you.
“OwO, what’s this?”
How do you pronounce that?
“Oh-woah”
“Hey buddy, if you already know no big deal. But, you know she…sleeps with a blahaj…if you catch my drift.”
A friend of Blåhaj
My favorite dog whistle (that went over my head, because I was not the audience for it) was the Subaru “Come out and play” commercial.
If I remember it correctly, the ad was mostly footage of Subaru SUVs driving over rocks and through streams while a voice over talks about the cars’ off-road capabilities. The ads would always end with the narrator saying "Subaru invites you to come out and play.”
As a straight man, I always assumed that the commercial was about how much fun it is to drive a Subaru up a mountain. Apparently, I was missing the point. The nature footage was all a distraction to pacify the straights. The real commercial was just the sentence fragment “Subaru invites you to come out”. It was meant to say that Subaru supports queer people. It was a resounding success in promoting the ‘Subaru driving lesbian’ stereotype.
Are you certain it’s not a reference to that one scene from the 1979 movie ‘the Warriors’?
There was a whole campaign in the 90’s. The license plates were mostly lesbian coded, they included the Wizard of Oz cast or a certain lesbian tennis player, I think another tag line was “let’s go camping”. It was fun finding out about that because I had a lot of the National Geographic magazines that they had add pages in.
That seems like a big stretch of interpretation, no?
In one of them the license plate said Xena. It’s a whole campaign originating from market research saying that lesbians were disproportionately likely to buy their cars
It’s fully not, the head of marketing at the time actually has done multiple interviews about it.
“Subaru Lesbian” had become a meme in the queer community, and someone internal to Subaru found out that on self-reporting surveys, Lesbians made up a surprising amount of the respondents
So Subaru decided to embrace it, with thinly-veiled advertising targeting lesbians
People saying that in response to learning about a dog whistle is how you know it’s a good dog whistle.
Yes and no. Subaru has a strong reputation in the queer community (or at least used to) because they were one of if not the first conpany to publically sponsor a queer sports player (female tennis player if memory serves correct but im sure somebody will correct me if im wrong). So even if not their intent, it’s easy to see how it could be interpreted as such. They didn’t earn the name “lesbaru” for nothing, they actually intentionally advertised to the queer community going back to the 90s if I’m not mistaken !
Now hold on, I don’t care about sports or cars but I like lesbians, and the Subaru ad and the female tennis player were all part of a fiction television show, about lesbians called, “The L word.”
I don’t think these things happened in real life.
I’m too young, but it was real. It was such a thing within the lesbian community that shows like the L word were referencing it.
Well u made me look it up. They did a huge ad campaign with Martina Navratilova in the early 2000’s. Never heard of the L word show, but I suppose they had to be inspired by real life events seeing as how it was filmed after these ad campaigns took place!
Whoa
The more you know.
Still seems like a stretch but it hurts nobody to believe it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯It does not matter what it seems like.
It is fact.NPR did a podcast episode on it. Subaru basically realized that their car specifically resonated with lesbians due to various usability niches and so they decided to lean heavily into it. But it was the 90s, so they needed to be sublte at times.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/14/497958151/episode-729-when-subaru-came-out
I think it’s an older thing, but lace code. I guess generally on Dr. Martin boots. I’m pretty sure it died long ago, but some people still think it’s a thing.
Lace code? Have I been unintentionally sending a signal with my laces? I just kept the laces the way they were when I bought my boots…
Even in places with lace codes wearing the default black ones that comes with the boots just mean you’re not doing a lace code, but they’ve never been common and the meanings change depending on the group you ask, so just wear whatever colour laces you want.
White == White power
Red == Killed for the white power movement
Yellow == Anti-fascist
Ceationists calling it “intelligent design” rather than creationism
A creationist I worked with never used that word. He always described himself as “not an evolutionist” - I think he was trying to paint creationism as normal and evolution as the fringe.
While there are definitely some non-nazi creationist, man, creationism is its own right wing agenda. Louise Agasazzi was a fucking racist piece of shit, and hated Darwinism because he thought all the “races” had a different origin. And then contemporary Creationists have their very ownMike Johnson who’s an author on the Answers in Genesis website. And Answers in Genesis itself is a Nationalist alt right political organization. Creationism is just excuse for them to hate the gays, the trans, and the abortors.
So yeah, I guess they aren’t technically Nazis…they are cut from the same cloth. They may not goose step, but they sure like carrying water for the goose steppers.
Primus sucks
Or the Frank Mullen hand gesture regardless of what metal gig you are at
Primus sucks is the best answer, came to say.
I used to swear by ACME brand dog whistles. But since I’ve got into 3D printing, there’s so many options. They also cost little to nothing to print. I haven’t found a favourite one yet though, so if anyone has any suggestions, let me know.
I don’t have a suggestion, but do you have a recommendation?
Its not so much a dog whistle but in Quebec whether you say “sovreignist” or “seperatist” indicates your camp.
Like Caesar or Kaisar in Fallout New Vegas.
And whether you call the holiday in May “la fête des patriotes” or “la fête de la reine” is also a good one.
It is more of a shibboleth, but that is what I meant when I made the thread, I’m also from Québec and it was an example I had in mind when creating the thread, just didn’t mention it because it seemed a bit niche.
A dog whistle is just a shibboleth for Nazis.
Not from Quebec but agreed.
Edit: as in I wasn’t expecting to see someone bring it up.
I’ve been in Quebec for a while now and that has never stuck out to me. In French or English. More people than you would think share their opinions on the subject to someone with a thick English accent.
The narwhal bacons at midnight.
I actually was around a guy who said this IRL at a party one time in 2011. I recognized it, but also internally cringed so hard that I pretended I didn’t recognize it. I’m sorry, Sean.
You’re a good friend.
Friends don’t let friends Reddit.
I miss that. I genuinely do. Back when it felt like a community and things were fun. I know it’s never gonna happen again, it was great to see it, but I miss spontaneous community fun online.
As someone who used reddit during that time, lemmy something feels exactly like reddit back then. Small communities and mainly consisting of a bunch of nerds
I feel that Lemmy is much less fun. Maybe it’s the time period but it just feels more like people being depressed and arguing with each other than anything goofy
I agree, and I think it is all down to what is happening all around us and the state everyone is in
Holds up spork
And my axe.
Something about Obama and shoelaces? I can’t remember.
“I have an appointment with a gentleman” is prostitute for “I’m going to shag a dude for money”
