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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Mindlessly repeating a dogwhistle out of ignorance is understandable, but trying to reframe it as the people aware of the dogwhistle being the problem and not the phrase or its origins does your position no favours.
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Exactly.
More than once, I've accidentally used what I thought was just a common phrase, only to find out that its meaning has either changed or that it has a true origin I wasn't aware of.
Just own it and move on