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dog whistle /n/: The use of terms that seem innocuous but are intended to convey a hidden and potentially controversial message to a particular audience.

—American Heritage Dictionary

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Trainers may use the whistle simply to gather a dog's attention, or to inflict pain for the purpose of behavior modification.

—Wikipedia

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Strategic racism

Dog whistle politics

A taxonomy of modern-day dog whistles

The mantra of white supremacy

Focus on the strategic racism used to keep us apart

Racism is strategic

The race card: campaign strategy, implicit messages, and the norm of equality

Stop calling racist rhetoric a ‘dog whistle’

The racist roots of the dog whistle

The evolution of racist dog whistles

Thank Reagan and Clinton for Trump's dog whistle ways

Race-baiting for the presidency

Bush made Willie Horton an issue in 1988, and the racial scars are still fresh

Revisiting the dog whistle

The breadth of bigotry

Why white mothers aren’t blamed for the opioid crisis like Black mothers were during the crack epidemic

How to defeat dog whistle politics: Report

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