I was fully aware when I voted for him. We're just delaying the inevitable here, the NDP and Greens would have never won against the marketing machines that were the libs and cons.
It's a loaded term that should be replaced with a more nimble definition.
A dog whistle is the name for a loaded term that is used to tag a specific target with a large baggage of information, but in a way where only people who are part of the "in group" can understand the baggage of the word, hence "dog whistle", only heard by dogs.
In the case of the word "degeneracy", it's a vague word that has been often used to attack, among other things, LGBTQ and their allies as well as non-religious people. The term is vague enough that the user can easily weasel their way out of criticism for its usage, but the target audience gets the message loud and clear: "[target] should be attacked for being [thing]."
That's really funny and really sad at the same time.
Most Canadians know all US states, and I'm fairly certain I can match 95% of state postal abbreviations to their corresponding state (save for the ones starting with M, good luck lol). I'd like to see Americans try to put the huge landmass that is Manitoba (MB) on a map 😄
I don't think I've ever been confused between what's Mexico and what's USA, and I feel like uneducated racist people may just be going off of the name, like Nevada / Arizona being spanish names and New Mexico referencing Mexico.
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I will shart a little