Lazy dog whistling

I must have been under a rock for quite a while I think.  More and more often I have no idea what they are talking about when I listen to the radio, even The News.

A month or so ago I had to ask Mr Google what a white cismale was.  It took a while because I thought the cis and male were separate words.  Once I found out what it meant I thought it was just some modern gobblygook the woke brigade had made up but no, the Latin prefix cis means “on the same side of.”  So cismale is a male who was born male and is still "on the same side" ie still identifies as male.  Really, we need a word for that??

From the lips of same woman who taught me that lesson about gender identity, comes lazy, dog whistling.  If you know all about it, don't read further. 

I heard it as lazy dog whistling as in lazy dog but no it was the dog whistling that was said to be lazy.  Do you know about this?

I think the best explanation was in the Urban Dictionary.  “A surreptitious inclusion of code words or phrases that will be heard by some of those listening, while not disturbing the other listeners, who may not appreciate the hidden message(s)." Like as a dog whistle is only heard by dogs.

I still don't understand why that woman applied that term to the situation she was talking about.  But then I'm not a politician and would not appreciate whatever the hidden message was meant to be.

Anyway, while I was down that rabbit hole reading about whistling (to dogs and otherwise) I came across something I'd never heard of before.  Maybe the politician who is fond of accusing others of dog whistling should remember this:

"Whistling at a funeral or formal event would be rude. Doing it while stacking hay bales or fixing a car probably isn't. However, no matter the context, whistling is always extremely annoying to anyone within hearing distance of the one who is doing it."   I'd say the same applies to dog whistling.