Though outraged by all the outrage that's out there, it's nececessary to record the source of my current enrangement and outrage - the free use of the expression "dog whistle". That is, the identification of a pronouncement as xeonophobic or racsit and therefore as being a "dog whistle".
A dog whistle operates at frequency undetectable by the human brain. Therefore, the implication of using the term is that only xenophobes and racists can hear the whistle. But, as this interpretation isn't in the interests of the those in the media or public life who identified the dog whistle (as that suggests they are canine because they heard the whistle), it must mean something else.
It seems those who employ the term are saying that, though they may look like the rest of us, it's only other dogs that are triggered into an innately rasict response. Well, fuck off you patronisingly eletist twats. We are not stupid. How dare you presume that Australians are particularly suscpetible to the appeal of racsist or xenophobic utterances. The condecension is sickening.
We’re not dogs. Shih tzu!
