I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but equating dog breeds to human races is crazy racist. The difference here is humans (generally) have the intelligence to overcome their basal instincts. This does not apply to dogs.
Pit bulls were bred to be aggressive. That is literally what they were created for. Trying to equate that to Black people is horribly misguided at best, and is, no pun intended, a racist dog-whistle.
This caught my eye as well. The post definitely has undertones of “Well if you agree with this, wait until your hear about black crime statistics!” as some sort of gotcha. Maybe I’m reading between the lines too much, but since we both noticed it maybe there’s something there.
For the record I am against pitbull breeding and ownership, absolutely terrified of them, and would gladly see them banned.
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I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but equating dog breeds to human races is crazy racist. The difference here is humans (generally) have the intelligence to overcome their basal instincts. This does not apply to dogs.
Pit bulls were bred to be aggressive. That is literally what they were created for. Trying to equate that to Black people is horribly misguided at best, and is, no pun intended, a racist dog-whistle.
I am against pit bulls. The tweet is literally in the same format as one of these statments. It’s not a good look. It could even be considered a parody? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/despite-being-only-13-percent-of-the-population
This caught my eye as well. The post definitely has undertones of “Well if you agree with this, wait until your hear about black crime statistics!” as some sort of gotcha. Maybe I’m reading between the lines too much, but since we both noticed it maybe there’s something there.
For the record I am against pitbull breeding and ownership, absolutely terrified of them, and would gladly see them banned.