🧩 BND Motif Index · M1214
Dog whistle
Something innocent on its face, a name, a phrase, a hand sign, is charged with carrying a coded slur or signal that the in-group hears and outsiders miss, so taking it up spreads the hate unknowingly.
🗣️ Arguments🗂️ Speech and censorship🗂️ Bad faith
- 5claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Sanewashing
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 2 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “are you missing the part where that font and format is literally fashwave” “I can understand not knowing the full transphobia side of it all” “It is just a way to say blame they them, meaning the Jews in Israel, for the fact that groceries are expensive.” “MLK was used to cover up the image of a cross burning.” “that was his message in Trump code” “the name goes out of its way to have a slur for women in it” “Throwing out racist dogwhistles like "genuine refugees” “under the name “Malfoid”, with foid being incel slang for women” “we've got another that's blaming Jews for the cost of groceries.” “Why are you specifically using a fascist meme format to advocate for this”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 1
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-10-29 “A political ad suggests that US funding for Israel causes high grocery prices, which is anti-Semitic hate.” 3
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 4
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-05 “A patriotic MLK meme is said to be an edited Nazi fashwave meme, MLK pasted over a cross burning; others say the format was reclaimed.”
- 2026-11-03 “The Home Secretary's new immigration rules are a cruel, racist, and classist attempt to move the goalposts for legal migrants.”
- 2026-11-02 “Donald Trump thinks football is boring.”
- 2026-10-25 “The "girl Malfoy" ("Malfoid") fan art trend promotes JK Rowling's transphobic brand under an incel slur, and the artists who draw it are hurting trans people.”
M1214 · first seen 2026-10-25 · what this is · how the index works