Code Words

Abstract

Drawing on Mendelberg and Stanley, Khoo suggests that this simple theory can make sense of why politicians speak in code – they do so to afford themselves plausible deniability for violating certain social norms against racism. This enables these individuals to in fact violate these norms by conveying, implicitly, the racist attitudes, without being held accountable to them.

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