{"id":20709,"date":"2026-05-06T15:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20709"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:13:16","slug":"vocab-dog-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20709","title":{"rendered":"Vocab: Dog Whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Google AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In politics and social commentary, a <strong>dog whistle<\/strong> is an expression that has a secondary meaning intended to be understood only by a particular \"in-group\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Literal Origin:<\/strong> Actual dog whistles emit high-frequency sounds that dogs can hear, but humans cannot.<br><strong>The Figurative Meaning:<\/strong> A speaker uses words that sound neutral or \"innocuous\" to the general public\u2014like \"traditional values\" or \"inner city\"\u2014but signal controversial or biased messages to a specific group. This allows the speaker to maintain <strong>plausible deniability<\/strong> if they are accused of being offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"This talk had more dog whistles than a canine construction site.\"<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qtE3c01a8pM\">the critic<\/a> is accusing the speaker of being <strong>highly manipulative<\/strong>, filling their talk with so many secret signals that the subtext has become almost impossible for \"those in the know\" to miss<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google AI: In politics and social commentary, a dog whistle is an expression that has a secondary meaning intended to be understood only by a particular \"in-group\" The Literal Origin: Actual dog whistles emit high-frequency sounds that dogs can hear, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabularies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20710,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20709\/revisions\/20710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}