• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    19 hours ago

    Okay, the pizza thing is apparently a pedo dogwhistle (which is part of why Qanon went nuts about the existence of pizza restaurants) but why is Bill Gates mpreg?

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      17 hours ago

      “Cheese pizza” has been slang/a euphemism for child pornography (due to the initials being the same, “cp”) since at least 2010. I wouldn’t call it a dog whistle.

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        8 hours ago

        Maybe you know it as common fact for some reason but also

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

        It communicates a specific message to a specific group in a way meant to pass unnoticed to the larger public without further context. It’s literally a textbook example.

        Unless you want to argue that anyone talking about cheese pizza in public is obviously a pedo because it’s clearly the dominant and assumed meaning?

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          2 hours ago

          I’m just saying the term has been around for a while and felt more like a euphemism than a dog whistle to me in how people used it.