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u/Ralphdraw3 · 5 pointsr/politics

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Whistle-Politics-Appeals-Reinvented/dp/019022925X

u/TrapWolf · 4 pointsr/entj

I can't really help your internal qualms but I can suggest books that might help.

Sociology undergrad here. Went through a huge anti-racist-militant phase and now I'm still that but covert. The most crucial problem a lot of PoC have with racism is that they have no words or dictation to find out what exactly is bothering them. Racism is carefully crafted that way to be. It's pedantic, however, to argue whether or not that is purposefully done or not. We can acknowledge that it's a product of racism (the inability to have a dialogue about it).

THE BOOKS

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America

  • This will probably resonate the most with you because it's the more frequent amount of racism we experience. It's a different critique because instead of addressing the right's racism, it addresses the left's supposedly openness and diversity.

    The New Jim Crow

  • This book was written by a lawyer who first completely dismissed the idea that there was still a racial caste system in the U.S. However, her research told her otherwise as she investigated the ways that the 5th amendment was violated on a federal level, how prison populations are used for manual labor at low pay that equates to a modern day-covert form of slavery, and how prison populations count as 2/3rds or 3/5ths a person for a state's population.

    Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

  • This approaches racism in how it's affected and formed our modern day political institutions. It talks about how politicians use racism to convince white voters to vote against their own best interests.

    Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, 3rd Edition

  • This book was written by a Catholic priest who followed two groups of poor income boys; one group was majority white and one group was majority black. It's both a academic and personal account of his observations on how these boys grew up over three decades. An incredible longitudinal study that is both objective and genuine.

    If you're serious about understanding race and ethnic relations, you'll read tese books. If you need any advice on starter chapters I have a few.
u/CobaltLemur · 4 pointsr/NoStupidQuestions

This is a must read for anyone wanting to understand US politics over the last century.

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

I lived here all my life and never quite understood it before reading this book, thought lots of voters were just insane.

It's methodical and devastating.

u/platocplx · 2 pointsr/hiphopheads

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/politics/blacks-white-racism-united-states-polls/index.html

This shows the divide.


This is a full study on it from pew.

http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/4-race-immigration-and-discrimination/


This speaks about police and justice reform that is needed

https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

This talks about racism that happens to Asian people.
https://psmag.com/news/ghosts-of-white-people-past-witnessing-white-flight-from-an-asian-ethnoburb

And if you would like to educate yourself more about race in the US.
these books are a great start

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class


So You Want to Talk About Race

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America


I see where this convo is going. And I will reference you to literature that will help for you to expand your knowledge on race and class in this country. There isn’t a reddit post in the world that can wholly give you the full picture on what’s wrong with race in America but these books give you a great starting point. Good luck.

u/mdawgig · 2 pointsr/EnoughTrumpSpam

> The horseshoe theory says nothing more than radicalization and narrow mindedness is wrong, and I firmly stand with that statement.

Like I said: this only makes sense if you're completely ignoring what each side stands for in the broader sense. Left radicalization says "fuck intolerance". Right radicalization says "fuck progress and difference". Those two things aren't equivalent or equally worthy of consideration.

> Left wing idiocy is not an iota better than right wing idiocy.

Yes it is, fuck off. Good things and bad things aren't the same just because people might believe them equally deeply.

If you honestly think that, then you're the reason America's Overton Window has been creeping right for decades, and you're part of the reason that the center of our country and our largest coastal cities have been left to rot by corporate oligarchs who don't care about them.

> Yes, we centrists are more and more decried as cucks and traitors and whatnot. For decades the ability to compromise was something very highly regarded in politicians. We used to have way more moderates in this country. Apparently not getting anything done if you don't have a majority because god forbid we work with them has become mainstream, though.

Fuck compromise until we're compromising on different tactics to achieve just goals.

But when America's Overton Window is so far right that even our "leftist" party would be considered center-right by every other developed democracy, "compromise" is nothing but a sham that allows every structural problem to perpetuate itself.

You know what "compromise" with right-wingers has gotten us?

  • The three-fifth's "compromise".

  • The Missouri "Compromise".

  • "Separate but equal".

  • "Don't ask, don't tell".

  • Reaganomics and the subsequent hollowing out of the middle class that coincided with dog-whistle race politics.

  • The war on drugs and the war on poverty, which directly contributed to the "driving while black" phenomenon, in addition to the disproportionate incarceration and sentencing rates among black folks.

  • A "states rights" approach to education policy that led to a race-to-the-bottom where Texas' right-wing backwards-ass lawmakers effectively decide education policy for most of the nation.

  • A crumbling healthcare system that costs more per-capita than any other developed nation with single-payer systems.

  • I could go on for literally days.

    > Vilifying half of the country as obstructionist assholes is more important than focusing on the problems. For some reason the word discussion has become "being right at any cost" instead of "sharing ideas". And people like you think that's a good development...

    Maybe half of the country are actually obstructionist assholes and maybe the truth isn't somewhere in the middle. Has that thought ever seriously crossed your mind, even once?

    You know what did or will change those things I mentioned?

    Standing up for something for once in your goddamn life and refusing to compromise until you see that result. You have to be willing to tell right-wingers "NO, YOU'RE FUCKING WRONG" if you want to be part of the solution rather than being passively complicit in the problem.

    Saying that does not make me "just as bad" as someone who thinks that poor people should die of preventable illnesses in the streets or that education should be treated as a scarce commodity, I'm sorry to inform you.

    Compromise is a tactic. It is not, and should never be, the driving goal.

    You know who wins when "compromise" is the ends and the means? The people with the least to lose and the most extant power.

    Every. Single. Time.

    "Compromise" didn't create the Civil Rights Acts: "divisive" protests and concerted action by "radical" groups did.

    "Compromise" didn't push LGBT equality onto the national agenda; that was "radical" queer folks showing up and speaking out.

    The list goes on and reaches through the annals of history: divisiveness and compromise are both necessary political tactics. It just so happens that we live in a country and in an age where the latter has been the dominant tactic of those with power for decades, and everyone else has suffered immensely for it.

    Every single time throughout our country's history that people disaffected by status quo politics spoke out, their ambitions have been tamed and neutered by "compromise" until they were loud enough to make that change happen themselves.

    Sometimes necessary progress is divisive. I don't give a fuck. I'm done begging regressive right-wing assholes to do what is right. I'm done with that, full stop.

    Give me a country where we "share ideas" that actually speak to the idea of all people being created equal instead of "sharing ideas" about how to rearrange the Titanic's deck chairs. Then we'll talk about "compromise".


    Until then -- until we actually have a country where "compromise" involves a diverse group of people coming to the table to talk about how we achieve progress and mutual inclusiveness instead of whether we should even strive for those things -- I'm done trying to "compromise" with people whose vested interests are regressive and backwards.

u/TerminalGrog · 1 pointr/politics

>No, you aren't. You are desperate to blame your bogeyman and don't want to speak to the people in question.

I speak to these people every single day.

>Look, I appreciate this is a ballache to deal with. I had the same problem when we voted to leave the European Union over here. We've had to come to terms and unpick the stupid, myriad but ultimately not racist reasons people chose to Leave.

It's not the same thing.

>Like it or not, that's what you have to do now. You can't just blame it on fucking white supremacy for gods sake. You are NEVER going to get people voting for you if that's the line you take! You can't shame people anymore. It doesn't work! They don't identify as white supremacists. If they don't, your line of attack has no effect because they know themselves better who they are than you do!

I'm not trying to get anyone to vote for anything. I am observing that I believe a substantial percentage of the American public would accept authoritarianism at this point in history. I believe that the willingness to accept authoritarianism is linked to our long and deep history of white supremacy that infuses everything here: economics, politics, real estate, education. Everything. In short, the white population that has enjoyed a privileged position in society is resentful when it has to compete for crumbs with people of color. This is true, whether or not the people themselves deny being racist. It is a sense of entitlement that the "jobs" are "our jobs" to be taken by "them" who are not qualified but get the job due to laws created to ensure equal access to opportunity.

It is the sense that schools are filling up with undesirables so we need more choice, more options to flee the public education (such as private school vouchers).

It's the sense that led real estate agents to redline certain neighborhoods, keeping our residential areas segregated.

>They don't identify as white supremacists.

My argument isn't what they identify themselves as. My argument is that living in the United States is living in a society in which the environment is white supremacist. It's an environment in which white privilege was built on the back of black chattel slavery. It is a legacy that persists. To understand this better, you might want to read these books:

The New Jim Crow

Dog Whistle Politics

White Rage

Without that, it's somewhat pretentious to lecture an American on American society when you don't live in and weren't raised in America. Don't you think? (ETA: In fact, you really don't know anything about me, do you?)

>If they don't, your line of attack has no effect because they know themselves better who they are than you do!

I'm not attacking anything. I am not trying convince them of anything. I am making observations about American society. Very few people are openly racist or even admit to themselves that they are racist. Yet racism is rampant. How often have you heard, "I'm not racist, but..." You might as well tattoo "racist" on your forehead when you say that.

u/NotADoctorFremulon · 0 pointsr/MensRights

You ask for 1, I gave you 17,000. There are literally monographs about the subject.

You want article about them?
How about using the caravan as a dog whistle for xenophobia?
'Inner city' as a dog whistle for the Black community'?

The point of te dog whistle is to call out the socially and morally unacceptable sentiments that rally a base that holds those views, but still give yourself some level of deniability to maintain your appeal to moderate voters. Which you know. By their very design the are deniable.

The operate like an allusions. You know that that word means? There, a I have mentioned, are a political version of an allusion.

But what will you do? Some more of the sea lion act. "Oh, you cited CBC? Or Vox? Or WaPo. Those are only instances of journalsim."

And what do you have to support your claim.

NOTHING.

You expect me to prove my point, and when I offer evidence you dimiss it, exactly as I said you would, and then you insist in criticizing me while you offer NO evidence?

Because you are a sea lion. And you'll just keep going through the same routine becaue you are too weak to challenge your own preconceptions but too lazy to prove or validate them.

u/jackchit · -9 pointsr/SeattleWA

>This really is a complete straw man in the context of the conversation.

It isn't in the least. Pretty much the entirety of defunding American social support programs over the last 50 years can be tied to exactly this issue, which is what we are talking about when we talk about the refusal of American conservatives to spend tax dollars on CHELs. "Individual responsibility" is racial code, just like "protect our borders," "entitlements," "welfare queens," "forced bussing," all designed to get the poor white class to vote against their own interests by elevating a big, black, "other".


If you aren't interested in reading, watch the lecture from the author. Which is why his prescription for healing America is literally the same question I am asking here: rebuilding compassion for your community, so that people actually care about one another. How do you do that?

Don't just downvote, explain.