Navigating the treacherous waters of ‘dog whistle politics’
The phrase “Dog Whistle” is a new expression to me. Of course, I am speaking in political rather than in literary terms. For those like me, dog whistle refers to words or phrases that are common or “nothing special to pay special attention” to normal people, but trigger words to some folks, just like the sound of a dog whistle is not audible to normal people but the dogs can hear it.