Monday, February 15, 2010

How To Use A Dog Whistle

This is a dog whistle.

It comes in handy when you're pretending to run a respectable blogsite, but in fact get much of your material from wingnuts like Trevor Loudon.

If you're going to use it properly, here are some tips:
  • never express outrage over the behaviour you wish to draw your followers' attention towards. Use words like "interesting". The pack will do the rest
  • if called by someone for your whistling, make sure you take umbrage at the allegation. "Who me? I would never do such a thing!"
  • it helps not to have a moderation policy. That way people can say what they like, and you can just shrug your shoulders and say "that's freedom of speech for you!"
 Happy whistling!

2 comments:

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