{"id":133042,"date":"2023-08-25T08:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=133042"},"modified":"2023-08-25T08:57:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:57:57","slug":"historian-gop-candidates-used-racist-dog-whistles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/historian-gop-candidates-used-racist-dog-whistles\/","title":{"rendered":"Historian: GOP candidates used racist \u2018dog whistles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>One of the two Indian candidates \u2018whistled the loudest\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While Republican presidential candidates discussed hiring police officers and reducing the influence of teachers unions during Wednesday\u2019s primary debate, one historian was able to hear something different &#8211; \u201cdog whistles\u201d about \u201crace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when the Republican Party is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2023\/07\/12\/demographic-profiles-of-republican-and-democratic-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggling<\/a> to gain the support of minority voters, their first debate featured a chorus of dog whistling on issues of race,\u201d Arizona State University Professor Calvin Schermerhorn <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/8-gop-candidates-debate-funding-to-ukraine-trumps-future-and-covertly-with-dog-whistles-race-211866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in\u00a0<em>The Conversation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American entrepreneur, \u201cwhistled the loudest,\u201d the historian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Schermerhorn (<em>pictured, left<\/em>) wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He would put more cops on the streets who did not have to \u201clook over their shoulder for getting sued,\u201d a jab at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/crime-justice\/2020\/11\/blm-police-accountability-george-floyd-breonna-taylor-election-ballot-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter<\/a> and the broader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/article\/george-floyd-murder-one-year-later-police-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push<\/a> for police accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy vowed to \u201cend the teachers\u2019 unions\u201d and impose a civics test on 18- to 24-year-olds in order for them to vote, echoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/11\/opinion\/vivek-ramaswamy-voting-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim Crow<\/a> literacy tests that were imposed on Black voters. \u201cReverse racism is racism,\u201d he added in closing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After writing that Ramaswamy had the loudest dog whistle, the historian then said that actually Governor Ron DeSantis was the loudest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to be out-dog-whistled on the crime issue, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused liberal philanthropist George Soros of \u2018funding radical left-wing district attorneys,\u2019 who, in this view, turn a blind eye to street crime at the urging of the 93-year-old Jewish billionaire,\u201d the historian wrote.<\/p>\n<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/ugavb5\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_v38ykk2\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"v38ykk2\",\"div\":\"rumble_v38ykk2\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Soros &#8220;has channeled more than $3 million into seven local district-attorney campaigns in six states over the past year \u2014 a sum that exceeds the total spent on the 2016 presidential campaign by all but a handful of rival super-donors,&#8221; <em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/08\/george-soros-criminal-justice-reform-227519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2016. Soros has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/22\/george-soros-spent-40m-getting-lefty-district-attorneys-officials-elected-all-over-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">continued<\/a> to fund liberal prosecutors in subsequent elections.<\/p>\n<p>Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is Indian, also dog whistled when she criticized the \u201ccrazy woke things happening in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, who is black, \u201cdidn\u2019t deviate from the conservative script that government aid hurts families and vowed to \u2018break the backs of the teachers\u2019 unions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott also spread racist dog whistles, according to the ASU historian, when he mentioned being raised by a single mom and touted President Donald Trump\u2019s record on creating jobs for black and Hispanic Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Criticism of laws designed to make it easier for accused criminals to get out of jail is another racist dog whistle, the ASU expert concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFormer Vice President Mike Pence opposed bail reform, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usccr.gov\/news\/2022\/us-commission-civil-rights-releases-report-civil-rights-implications-cash-bail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">civil rights measure<\/a> that is strongly supported by progressive voters,\u201d Schermerhorn wrote.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/usc-psychology-scholar-argues-term-viewpoint-diversity-is-a-dog-whistle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Viewpoint diversity&#8217; is a dog whistle, scholar says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMAGES: Arizona State University; Gage Skidmore<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the two Indian candidates \u2018whistled the loudest.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1171,"featured_media":133047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[49186,2512,50710,3097,50204,16027,9592,410,22233,28176,1615,2967,30305,27575,46101],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Untitled-design-972.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-yBQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133042"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133051,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133042\/revisions\/133051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}