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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

That's the tricky thing about political dog whistles, that words have multiple, related meanings. They can say "law and order" and we hear law as "rule of law," and order as the lack of civil unrest.

They hear law as police power, as in "the law is at the door," and order as hierarchy. E.g. white conservatives are at the top of the social order.