I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.
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Left wingers: "The right is full of neo-fascists who want to exploit natural resources, subjugate minorities, project their own pedophilia habits onto us, roll back the clock on women's rights, and are willing to lie, cheat, beg, borrow, and steal to get it all done!"
Right wingers: "The left is ANNOYING!"
Also the left projects and makes shit up constantly. Hell, one of their favorite phrases "dog whistle" means "My opponent did not say X, but I want him to say X, so I'm going to pretend he said X"
You: "The left projects and makes shit up constantly!"
Also you: Proceeds to project and just make some shit up in the next goddamned sentence.
What did I make up? You can see @TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world use "dog whistle" in that exact fashion.
The problem with using the term "the left" (much like any board term) is that is definition is nebulous. Political leaning is relative to the reference ideals.
The point I'm getting at is that it's imaterial to your issue, with this one person and while you have your right to be upset with them it's a bad basis for an argument against a group especially one so ill defined.
I would argue that, in an informal and somewhat overvgeneralised sense, people do trend to the left and right sides. A person who hates abortion is more likely to be for gun rights, for example.
And in my experience, the people who use the term dog whistle tends to trend towards the left socially.
Just say you don't understand what dog whistling is and move on
It's literally how its used. How would you define it?
See that technique you just used is call "gaslighting." A dogwhistle is when you say something that's not exactly advocating for unspeakable ideas, but indicates that you hold those ideas and is intended to garner support. So when you said "Mohamed raped a 9 year old, and reddit doesn’t like that particular fact about that particular religion" you were dogwhistling to other islamophobes and hateful people the idea that all Muslims are child rapists.
Yeah but now you can just say that instead of actually talking about the subject. If it were any other time, you would say something like "there is no credible source that Aisha was 9 when they married" or "are you saying that christians didn't historically marry 14 year-olds?" Or whatever other rebuttal you can have. And someone who doesn't know anything about the subject who is reading this might be swayed to your position. If you just say "fuck off with this dogwhistle" people might not be convinced.
Oh, nice, dog whistle inception! I never said the "all Muslims are child rapists", but you wanted me to have said "all Muslims are child rapists", so you're pretending I said "all Muslims are child rapists" anyway. And you claimed I was gas lighting, when it was you who was. Truly the shitty cherry on top.
No, what I really mean is Muslims worship a child rapist, which I thought was pretty clear.
Newsflash: Words can have unspoken connotations that signal your politics to a group of people. We call that "dogwhistling".
Imagine having the wool pulled this far over your eyes. Couldn't be me