Candidate Analysis: Renard Johnson And The Politics Of Dangerous Speech
Editor’s note: the following is an excerpt from the author’s position paper on the candidacy of Renard Johnson, who is running to be El Paso’s next mayor. This is part one of a two-part series. Dog whistle political rhetoric is coded language that may sound innocuous to some people but contains language designed to incite…
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