Had a similar spat of annoying interactions on my effort post about pitbulls and racism “Wow you comparing black people to animals how racist” no mother fuckers I was pointing out with exhaustive sources about how shit like pitbull hysteria and breed specific legislation have been proven to enable new forms of redlining and are born from the same sort of bioessentialism used to justify a number of other forms of bigotry.
I really, really hate when you try to compare a bad thing to racism and someone says “oh so you’re comparing [bad thing] to racism?” Yes! Yes I am! Because two bad things don’t need to be exactly equal in magnitude to still be comparable.
It’s not even just comparable it is literally part of the superstructure of white supremacy. For example a dog is more likely to be identified as a pitbull if the owner isn’t white. It also is used to sneak in scientific racism via the argument that they are genetically predisposed to aggression and violence.
Had a similar spat of annoying interactions on my effort post about pitbulls and racism “Wow you comparing black people to animals how racist” no mother fuckers I was pointing out with exhaustive sources about how shit like pitbull hysteria and breed specific legislation have been proven to enable new forms of redlining and are born from the same sort of bioessentialism used to justify a number of other forms of bigotry.
I really, really hate when you try to compare a bad thing to racism and someone says “oh so you’re comparing [bad thing] to racism?” Yes! Yes I am! Because two bad things don’t need to be exactly equal in magnitude to still be comparable.
It’s not even just comparable it is literally part of the superstructure of white supremacy. For example a dog is more likely to be identified as a pitbull if the owner isn’t white. It also is used to sneak in scientific racism via the argument that they are genetically predisposed to aggression and violence.
I’ve posted this before on fedi, but “aggressive dogs” get divided up into two categories: