• deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    1 month ago

    is a dogwhistle to racists.

    Usually you can’t hear a dog whistle, this one’s pretty, uh, broad spectrum.

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      Well I’d expect most of the general public to see this and think “huh, I support that, I’m surprised it’s not already in law as an official language”, so I’m not sure the racism would be that obvious to the average person.

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        Typically we’d rely on news media to do this critical thinking for us.

        It’s a shame that now we mostly have mainstream reporters just reporting events rather than journalists analysing events.

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          Well the article I linked above from 2023 does much of the analysing and is how I became aware that it’s unusual the put this in law so I think we can give journalists some credit 🙂