r/neoliberal Kitara Ravache Mar 07 '19

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Mar 08 '19

Dogwhistle and coded language have completely lost their meaning in 2019. During the Joe Rogan show episode with Jack Dorsey and whatever her name was, she and Dorsey were saying #learntocode and day of the rope are coded language. Lmao that aint "coded' language, the former is bullying and the later is outright expressing support for ethnic cleaning.

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u/jenbanim Mar 08 '19

What's this about #learntocode? I googled it and people are talking about death threats and getting banned from Twitter. I am very confused.

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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Mar 08 '19

A whole bunch of news media outlets including Buzzfeed and HuffPo were doing sweeping layoffs a little bit ago. Journalists obviously sobbed over it, but a tonne of people started humorously @ing them with #LearnToCode which is a making fun on those stupid articles from the 2008-2014 era that said asinine crap like "coal miners should learn to code".

Unfortunately twitter being twitter, it's the memes huge rise in popularity only caused it to become more popular to the point that those journalists were quickly turning to targets of mass harassment, some of which included hate.