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Ironically, describing anything as a "dog whistle" is a huge red flag.
What you describe is typical of the incorporate and destroy mentality. Dumb something down enough to be digestible by the norms, then other anyone outside of the harmless version.
RE people defending invasion of privacy: even if an opinion has a pulse, it can still be a bot opinion.
I agree. While I have no patience for people who are truly bigoted, the people who describe everything they dislike as a "dogwhistle" tend to be very narrow-minded themselves.