I’m writing a currently genre ambiguous Sci-Fi/lovecraft/spaceopera/superhero novel that doesn’t outright declare everyone is openly is Maoist/Anarchist/Stalinist/Etc., (the alien characters won’t have human etymology for their ideologies) and maybe it’s not actually all that political on the surface anyways, but any tips for slipping in vegan and leftist dog-whistles?
we don’t have dog whistles because there’s no way to say we should accept people, housing and feeding them, and destroy anyone who disagrees covertly. any sly reference to billionaires would be interpreted as anti-semitism, and calling out bigotry without naming it is liberal garbage. dogwhistels only really occur for dominant social ideologies
Yeah I came here to say this. Only overt leftism tracks as leftism most of the time. Sly leftist jargon in most situations can easily be redirected into fascism or get interpreted as wild conspiracy theory. The only time I’ve been able to dogwhistle leftist things have been in situations where leftism was already kind of occuring, but I wanted to push it further. Like I slipped in a lot of jargon when I tried unionizing, plus when I do volunteer work I’ll talk to the homeless folk about how landlords are parasites.
I think that’s more about acclimating people to leftist ideas rather than secretly messaging your true base. similar but not quite the same. Like, the message is same top to bottom, no matter who reads it with what you’re doing, while dogwhistles read different once you understand.
yes, but the point is you have to call out billionaires directly and make clear what is wrong about them. This isn’t subtle or sneaky.
I just think it could maybe work to have some villains who blame the billionaires shit on a racial group to go with sly anti-billlionaire stuff
Slipping in famous leftist quotes or paraphrases of those quotes. :biden-leftist:
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.
Nothing to lose but your chains
At an old apartment I used to live at I saw a wifi network named, “let a hundred flowers bloom”
And after you let the flowers bloom you arrest the right-wingers who foolishly revealed themselves and sentence them to hard labor for 20 years
Oh Mao, you were such a clever bastard when you wanted to be
It was, 100%. He knew there were right-wingers hiding in the Party and elsewhere. Finding them was the problem, they were deeply closeted. But allowing them to criticize the Party “to help improve it” would certainly get them to out themselves. They couldn’t resist. They identified themselves, Mao didn’t have to do anything but note names. Then after a few months, he brought the hammer down. BAM, off to the labor camps. None of them were released until after Mao died.
Throw you car batteries in the ocean to charge the eels
