Politics is often spoken through dog-whistles.

According to the Blue Square Alliance, “…dog whistles are coded signals–phrases, numbers, or symbols–that carry a hidden meaning. To most people they look harmless, but to those inside extremist circles they are instantly recognizable…The purpose of these dog whistles is both to disguise and connect. On the one hand, they allow people to share hate while maintaining plausible deniability. On the other hand, they work as a kind of password: an easy way for people in the know to find each other and signal shared beliefs.” Blue Square Alliance – Antisemitic Dog Whistles

Referencing Queen Esther is not a dog whistle and the seeming discrepancy between Queen Esther’s role in her own story and what Michigan AG Dana Nessel said invite not comparison. Rather the gap between what she said about seemingly abandoning the Jewish people’s right to self determination for a midterm election borders on the farcically absurd as does much of Esther’s story and the chag we celebrate from it, thus inviting analysis after the initial shock of her words wears off.

That outrage you’re feeling? That’s part of her strategy, she didn’t throw down the gauntlet to the Jewish community and supportors of Israel. Instead she invited scrutiny of the anti-Israel elements trying to influence the Democrat party and instead of allowing the current vanguard to hedge and moderate, she created a contrast between what he doesn’t want to say versus what he represents. He represents the omnicause, the same absurd conflation of the idea that somehow climate change, nuclear apocalypse, and a real life reenactment of the Terminator series from the AIs whose main function is literally-pathological agreement, will all be solved by voting to give Israel to Islamists who don’t care about climate change (Hezbollah planted trees to hide from the IDF even if they greenwashed it), would nuke Israel and anyone the disagree with if they could, and exclusively use AI to spam the Internet with propaganda and misinformation, not to mention Gaza suffers........

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