Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class - Ian Haney López Audiobook
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Dog Whistle Politics
Ian Haney López
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Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving “welfare queens” and “strapping young bucks” buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a message about racial minorities inaudible on one level, but clearly heard on another. In doing so, he tapped into a long political tradition that started with George Wallace and Richard Nixon, and is more relevant than ever in the age of the Tea Party and the first black president.
In Dog Whistle Politics, Ian Haney Lopez offers a sweeping account of how politicians and plutocrats deploy veiled racial appeals to persuade white voters to support policies that favor the extremely rich yet threaten their own interests. Dog-whistle appeals generate middle-class enthusiasm for political candidates who promise to crack down on crime, curb undocumented immigration, and protect the heartland against Islamic infiltration, but ultimately vote to slash taxes for the rich, give corporations regulatory control over industry and financial markets, and aggressively curtail social services. White voters, convinced by powerful interests that minorities are their true enemies, fail to see the connection between the political agendas they support and the surging wealth inequality that takes an increasing toll on their lives. The tactic continues at full force, with the Republican Party using racial provocations to drum up enthusiasm for weakening unions and public pensions, defunding public schools, and opposing health care reform.
Rejecting any simple story of malevolent and obvious racism, Haney Lopez links as never before the two central themes that dominate American politics today: the decline of the middle class and the Republican Party’s increasing reliance on white voters. Dog Whistle Politics will generate a lively and much-needed debate about how racial politics has destabilized the American middle class - white and nonwhite members alike.
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This post has 15 comments with rating of 5/5
August 31st, 2018
I’m conservative, and lefties say “that’s a dog whistle to Trump’s base” and I don’t know what they’re talking about. The ones hearing the whistles seem to be his opponents - and then they’ll smear half the country calling Trump supporters racist, and say “he’s dividing us.”
August 31st, 2018
Andy, what this book explains is that the dog whistle isn’t meant to be heard on a conscious level, that’s why it’s so insidious.
August 31st, 2018
Lee Atwater was a master at this: https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
August 31st, 2018
The Left hears dog whistles so well becasue of their heritage and practice of promoting actual and perceived racism so as to take advantage of the resulting divisions.
August 31st, 2018
Should the media be performing its role in educating and informing the electorate? Or, are all the news “corporations” merely seeking to become players in the political field, splitting into factions and taking entrenched positions on divisive issues?
August 31st, 2018
Happens every day–yesterday:
“Let’s build off the success we’ve had on [Florida] Gov. [Rick] Scott,” DeSantis said. “The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up…”– referring to the black Democratic candidate.
It’s a very weird wording, “monkey up” is not a usage I’ve ever seen or can find, it’s obvious that he just has the word in his mind.
August 31st, 2018
Gweilo a five minute google search and you will find dozens of times democrats,including Obama, used that Phrase.also he wasn’t referring to his opponent as a monkey. he was saying to the voters not to mess things up.The only people who saw that as racist were people who wanted to see it for political reasons.
August 31st, 2018
Chris, do me a favor. Listen to the book, and then comment. Please don’t assume anything.
August 31st, 2018
@whiteknight (is that an ironic name, I hope so) No, Obama never used that phrase. He used the word “monkey”, maybe “monkey business”, “monkey with”. But I cannot find any record of him using the phrase “monkey up”. And FFS, even if he had, the word has a very different connotation coming from a white about a black. Context matters.
For that matter, nobody else of note has used the phrase “monkey up”. No dictionary has that term listed*. DeSantis made a Freudian slip, sending a message from his subconscious to the “base” who understood what he meant; i.e. heard the whistle.
(* OK, there is a recent computer science usage, but makes no sense in this situation even if DeSantos was a computer hacker, which I rather doubt.)
Anyway, the book is timely indeed.
August 31st, 2018
The left hears them so well because the right has been using them for ever and we’re just tired of the same old BS. Why is the right so afraid of coming out in the light?
August 31st, 2018
@Gweilo: “Monkeying up” comment is NOT dog-whistling. It is maybe a racist Freudian slip, quite possibly not even a slip but intentional racism - but it’s not dog-whistling. It’s too obvious.
Dog-whistling is more insidious.
Dog-whistling is when a candidate talks about the “other side” being reckless, irresponsible, wild, fiscally careless… but without giving actual examples or arguments.
Leaving it to the listener to fill in the “whys” behind such generalizations. After all, we all know how “those people” behave.
Also, it’s pushing political issues designed to hurt one particular group of people, but wrapping them in the language of political issues.
“Reducing spending and cutting taxes” for eliminating social programs for the poor.
Or “removing crime from our streets” for removing you-know-who from OUR neighborhoods.
It’s abstraction and generalization of politically suicidal discriminatory agendas in a way which would give the voters a permission to support such agendas while keeping their hands plausibly clean.
“He promised (to bring back) jobs…”
August 31st, 2018
Only dogs can hear dog whistles? Seems to be all the rest of us have to say in reply no? Can’t believe people still use that cliche, do they not see that only a racist can hear a secret racist message? If you can hear a dog whistle, then you are either a dog or have the hearing of a dog. (for those that don’t know, real quality dog whistles are designed to create a sound at a frequency that dogs can hear but human ears can register).
September 1st, 2018
@granular:
“Dog-whistling is when a candidate talks about the “other side” being reckless, irresponsible, wild, fiscally careless… but without giving actual examples or arguments.” — That’s exactly what DeSantos was saying the “monkey” would do.
So call it a Freudian dog whistle.
I’m sure Trump isn’t consciously encoding dog whistles in his speech, they’re just part of his word salad, it’s how he thinks. He can say with a straight face he’s the “least racist person” and in the moment believes it.
@blt502 Don’t take the analogy too far. Everyone can hear these, but they enable the speaker to make appeals to prejudice in public speeches while denying that’s what he’s doing.
September 22nd, 2018
Racism is a rot in soul of this nation. In order for a rot to be healed, it must be first exposed and and then excised. Thereafter, sunlight and fresh air may bring healing.
Randy
June 2nd, 2021
Could someone please be kind and seed? _/\_
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