Dog-Whistle Expert Falls Prey to Dog-Whistle Experts
30th November 2018
The argument against Lamont Hill seems to be that he deployed a “dog whistle” — that is, that by using the phrase “from the river to the sea,” he signaled to the more clued-in and pernicious members of his audience that what he really covets is the destruction of Israel. Hill vehemently denies this: “My reference to ‘river to the sea’ was not a call to destroy anything or anyone,” he wrote yesterday on Twitter. “It was a call for justice, both in Israel and in the West Bank/Gaza. The speech very clearly and specifically said those things. No amount of debate will change what I actually said or what I meant.”
The Chattering Class are fond of the term ‘dog-whistle’, never pondering the fact that a subtle message audible only to BadThinkers and them pretty much puts them in the BadThinker bucket. Remember: If you hear the dog-whistle, then you’re the dog.