I want to apologize for the first post. I didn’t really expect it to get this large, so I never bothered to actually write it out properly. It was sloppy and it was a mess, and for that I apologize, but I will not apologize for it’s content.



Klubbhead, if you wish to be pedantic I will absolutely give you what you want (mostly because there is legitimate confusion in the notes to “dog whistles”). A dog whistle in a political sense of the word is, “a subtly aimed political message which is intended for, and can only be understood by, a particular group.” Now, for someone as large headed as yourself you surely understand what that means but I will provide an example. Specifically, the creator of it in the United States, Lee Atwater. Also I am going to post it as is which means beware racial slurs.

“You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968, you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger."”

Dog Whistle politics is actually quite interesting, almost no-one has really done it as well or as prolific than the United State’s Republican Party. And the purpose is supposed to be stumble, and how Centrism is constructed it’s supposed to “learn” from both sides so they’re specifically vulnerable to dog whistles. But the prolificacy of how much you post about BLM and Feminism being “bad” causes me to suspect you being a closet fascist.

I have literally seen this on /pol/. But I have also seen this on /r/fowardsfromgrandma and their similar subreddits (which I highly suggest for anyone who wants to see more dog whistles in acton). Now I will link everything I use as a source down in the description, and I wish I had “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond which is an amazing book breaking down Milwaukee segregation and the policing of Milwaukee. And please bear with me, this is going to take a little bit into getting to my point.

So for full closure I lived in Milwaukee and I live in a similarly segregated neighborhood to the south of it. I actually was there the night of the Riots, I had family who went to the riots, and the guy who was shot was a family friend to my extended family (I am not going to claim his death as a personal thing for me, mostly because that would be tacky). I know what it was going on there, and how you portrayed it was nowhere near the reality of it. It wasn’t random nor was it unjustified. I wish to quote Reggie Jackson, “There’s this idea that people self-segregate, but the reality is that there’s never really been self-segregation in Milwaukee,… “The segregation that we have, in terms of people of color, was created by a variety of different in institutions and individuals.” In the late 1930’s we start seeing the banks Redlining areas of Milwaukee, and these areas just so happen to line up where Majority Black/PoC/Polish populations lived and worked. Thus being unable to get loans for better houses, the people in the Redlined district put the first brick in what Milwaukee would become.

“By the 1940’s at sixteen of the eighteen Milwaukee County suburbs were using racially restrictive covenants to exclude black families from residential areas.” This was not a coincidence, this was not because people were just wanting to live near families, this was specifically targeting Black/PoC/Polish people.

Now as the city grows, more and more Black/PoC people get stuck in these areas. They get crowded and have to start essentially living on top of each other. I lived in a crowded house for a long time, and I know how angry you can get at people who you live with. And since these people largely can’t leave due to the cycle of poverty which was started by the Redlining and even further exacerbated by things like unfair taxation and unfair policing, tensions rise. They build and build before exploding. Which is why we see violent crime at such an all time high in inner cities, it becomes a pressure cooker of high tensions that blow over (no small part to police actively fanning the flames).

So the comparison and breakdown of race on race crime is largely unfair, due to the fact sociological outcomes of these areas. And if you look at it, white poor people in similar situations commit about the same amount of crime as PoC poor people. Riots, are largely a manifestation of this outrage and anger, but it is also legitimate tactic for oppressed groups. If you disagree with me on this, then I want to know the Warsaw Uprising would’ve been solved through peaceful protests.

And so we get to BLM

A largely peaceful group, organizing peaceful protests against the massacre of Black civilians by cops. The memes you are posting are essentially the same as what was make to attack MLK (I’m not going to just repost them all whole cloth, I will link it [here]http://agoodcartoon.tumblr.com/post/150419882610/mlk-and-civil-rights-protests-in-cartoons-then). These memes and comics are used to dehumanize and delegitimize the entire movement’s message, namely, “Please stop killing us.”

“All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” go hand-in-hand to again, both dehumanize and delegitmize the movement they’re against but also to misdirect. “All Lives/Blue Lives Matter” seems good, but if peel away the varnish what these movements are actually saying are “Black people shouldn’t talk and be angry about their oppression”. Both “All Lives” and “Blue Lives matter” are not “We all should get along”, it’s “We shouldn’t be listening to black people”. It is another arm of the White Supremacy movement that you’ve (hopefully) unwillingly played into.

While I am on the topic of White Supremacy, I know you’re Mexican and I specifically did not use the word “nazi” but opted for “Fascist” because I feel “Nazi” is thrown out too much. But you can absolutely be racist while being a PoC (although you cannot be racist to white people). Native Americans owned black slaves, pretty much everyone was racist to the Chinese in the 30’s, Mexicans can be racist to Native Americans, and both Mexicans and Black people can be racist to the other. But when a PoC is racist to another PoC, the only player who wins is white supremacy. Racism can only ever help the “ruling” (I don’t really like this term, but I couldn’t think of another) race, which in america is White people.

I specifically didn’t outright say you’re a fascist, but to quote TMBG from “Your Racist Friend”, “[you] Can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding”. If you wish to have one foot in helping spread fascist propaganda while also still saying you’re a centrist, you’re a fascist.

Links and Further reading/watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzk (to help understanding and learning what a dog whistle is)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWwiUIVpmNY (a good video on pretty much exactly what happened in Milwaukee but in Baltimore. I didn’t use this as a source though)

https://nycdatascience.com/blog/student-works/pressure-cooker-higher-population-densities-increase-crime/

https://www.thecut.com/2016/08/milwaukee-shows-what-segregation-does-to-american-cities.html

http://www.wuwm.com/post/how-did-metro-milwaukee-become-so-segregated#stream/0

http://teachingwithdata.blogspot.com/2014/10/proceed-with-caution-analysis-of.html (an interesting piece I haven’t had time to fully go over just yet)