Dogwhistling for
homophobe, much like racialist and racial realist are for racist.
A clumsy attempt to detach one's behaviour from the
well deserved public scorn it normally elicits by repackaging it in a
neologism.
"I keep telling you, I'm not a
homophobe, I'm a heteroseparatist!"
"And I keep telling you to please fuck off. I'm immunocompromised and cannot get the
jab, you have been spreading spittle on me for the past five minutes and I've
never seen you take the more sanitary basic precautions even before the pandemic."
"Whoa, calm down Hitler. Jesus, you'll put us in camps anyday soon."