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Korean Man who Died in Mexico Returned -- Missing Organs:
The body of a Korean man who died in Mexico has been returned to his family ― without his brain, stomach and heart.
Mexican authorities claim that the man, 35, surnamed Kim, died of natural causes despite a scuffle with other people just before his death. His widow fears that someone is trying to cover up the truth.
[...] According to the widow, Kim and other men were engaged in a fight at a Monterrey karaoke on Jan. 3, which was filmed by surveillance cameras there. In a few minutes, Kim passed out and was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
"More than a week later, I received the autopsy result that says 'no external injuries.' I was dumbfounded," she wrote on the Cheong Wa Dae website.
[...] She said Mexican police are not investigating the case because Kim died ― on paper ― of natural causes.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:08PM (2 children)
Analagous to a dog whistle, which produces a humans can't hear, "dogwhistling" in politics is the use of coded or euphemistic phrases that have a clearly-understood meaning to the base...which, like Pavlov's dog, more often than not has an automatic, unthinking reaction to it involving foaming at the mouth or at least drooling.
Example: as the Civil Rights movement wore on, a lot of the hardcore racists learned that you can't outright call people "nigger" and win votes anymore. So they changed their terminology to things like "urban youth," "thugs," "forced busing," "inner-city culture," and so forth. Looks different on the surface, but the red-meat red-state base hears the double-G loud and clear.
Several of the...ahem...more doctrinaire right-leaning posters on this site do the exact same thing. Once you spot it a few times it becomes obvious, and also infuriating, because they think everyone outside their base is too stupid to know what they're doing.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:14PM (1 child)
I looked it up and gathered the meaning. But this term must have been used by someone famous or something recently since I hadn't heard it before.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @01:38AM
What kind of rock do you recommend? I find granite looks good but is a bit hard to carve shelves into.