Democrats have gone so crazy that we need new words for the stuff they are doing. Maybe instead of ‘batshit crazy’ we should call them ‘dogshit crazy’?
Anyways, the new word in question is ‘gaswhistling’. This is when Democrats try to gaslight everyone about something that is not actually a dogwhistle.
A prime example was the Glenn Youngkin commercial that featured the mother of a child who was hurt by an offensive book. I don’t know if the kid was actually hurt by the book but the book contained multiple instances of people having sex with cows and goats and a mother murdering her child. Not great, Bob.
The commercial did not mention the ethnicity of the author. It did not mention the name of the author, Toni Morrison. The commercial in fact did not even mention the name of the book, ‘Beloved’. The identifying characteristic that the commercial provided about the book was “book”. That’s it.
So in order for this to be a racist dogwhistle someone watching the commercial would need to:
1) be paying close attention to a sappy political commercial
2) be so intrigued by the vague notion of an offensive book in a political ad that they googled ‘offensive book lady Virginia son Youngkin ad’
3) read news articles until they found one that mentioned the name of the book
4) googled the name of the book to find the name of the author of the book
5) seen the name Toni Morrison and thought “Ah ha I better check to see if he………or she is a nonwhite!!!”
6) searched Google Images for ‘Toni Morrison and I bet she’s nonwhite which shall anger me!!!”
Literally zero people did that. Zero. We could run that ad nationwide on all stations as the only ad for five consecutive years and three people would do that. The remaining 329,999,997 people would become violent and attack TV stations for running the same political ad on a loop for 5 years.
It absolutely is gaslighting to call that ad a dogwhistle. It’s gaswhistling.
Gaswhistling is already the term for a fart passing through tightly-clenched buttcheeks.
Do better. The quality of this stack is appallingly incongruous with its outrageous price.