Thread by @AmericasVoice

[1/6] As part of our 2020 ad tracker project, here is a break down of the worst #DogWhistleAd of the week.

Find out more about this campaign and if politicians in your district are using coded racist ads to get elected with our tracker: 2020adwatch.com

[2/6] The Republican Governors Association-- @The_RGA-- is running a $3 million ad campaign in NC employing a range of racist and xenophobic dog-whistles hoping to scare voters away from reelecting Gov. Roy Cooper.

2020adwatch.com/node/953

[3/6] One of the ads @The_RGA dropped this week is an anti-immigrant echo of the infamous 88’ Willie Horton ad. The ad flashes a non-white face on screen as the voice-over reads off violent crimes.

[4/6] The goal of this racist dog-whistle is to intentionally avoid the explicit mention of race while still invoking the often deadly notion of the inherent criminality of non-white bodies in the hopes that constituents will vote Republican out of unconscious, racialized fear.

[5/6] At issue in this ad is a Gov. Cooper’s veto of a purely partisan political bill in 2019. At the time Cooper called the bill “unconstitutional” and understood that this legislation would, in fact, “weaken law enforcement”

[6/6] North Carolina does deserves better-- racism, xenophobia, and division offered by @The_RGA is not a solution that will keep NC safe, healthy, and employed. Voters can and should reject the poison pill message in this ad.