![]() ![]() I’m usually not a fan of franchise reboots, but maybe we should go back to the source material, where racists don’t have to twist themselves into bigoted little knots. It could be something as innocuous as “grits,” or something as arbitrarily specific as MUMFAs (Monmouth University MFAs). It is used to train dogs because they can hear ultrasounds up to a frequency of 40000 hertz. Anti-Blackness is limitless, so the pool of candidates to indicate the presence of Black people is bottomless. A special whistle that can produce ultra sound, not heard by humans, is called Galton’s whistle. Pierre Curie 1877 John William Strutt, an English physicist, first describes sound waves as mathematical equations in his textbook The Theory of Sound. Words are retired - when was the last time you heard “ghetto”? - to make room for others. 1876 Francis Galton, an English polymath, invents the Galton Whistle which produces a high frequency sound (ultrasound) inaudible to human ears. The dog whistle glossary updates every five years or so. You can adjust the pitch of the whistle by screwing the plunger in or out on both versions of the whistles. GALTON WHISTLE FREEFree shipping on many items Browse your favorite brands. Procedure: Screw the silver whistle together. (“Be careful when you go there.” “Why?” “That neighborhood gets a little, um, woke after dark.”) But now I’m mostly interested in what’s next. Get the best deals on Dog Whistles when you shop the largest online selection at. It would be fun if “woke” continued to shift and became a synonym for sketchy. ![]() Fantasy franchise spin-offs “House of Dragon” and “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” are now “woke,” because apparently elves, hobbits and fire-breathing dragons are more believable than Black people in Middle-earth. A Black Little Mermaid? They took all the water out of the sea and replaced it with liquid, um, woke-ter. An NFL team hires a Black coach? Wokeness gone wild. It’s a bumbling linguistic jitterbug, where a historically Black place like Harlem wouldn’t be considered woke, but a politician from Harlem automatically would be. Initially published in 2013, Ian Haney-Lpezs Dog Whistle Politics offered a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial. To them, the world is one big birthday cake, with a surprise crouched inside of it, ready to burst, and they’re expecting Kenny Chesney but they get Pusha T. Today, “woke” is mostly used by the right to signify the presence of Black people (or women) where they didn’t expect them to be. I’ve lost count of how many different euphemisms I’ve read and heard to describe, well, me. ![]()
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