Highlights: In a bizarre turn of events last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he would ban American XL bullies, a type of pit bull-shaped dog that had recently been implicated in a number of violent and sometimes deadly attacks.

XL bullies are perceived to be dangerous — but is that really rooted in reality?

  • @noride@lemm.ee
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    51 year ago

    Sorry, can you clarify what part of OPs post is racism? Genuinely struggling with that connection.

    • @jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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      -71 year ago

      Did you read the original article? It explains the racebaiting that goes on with pit bulls

    • @Forester@yiffit.net
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      -91 year ago

      The idiot I’m replying to believes that The genome of a animal directly correlates to that animals behavior potential for intelligence and general demeanor.

      Now where have I heard before that someone’s genetic makeup makes it so that they are not qualified to the same rights and privileges as the others. If this person believes that the parentage of a animal determines how a animal will live and act… That’s eugenics.

      Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”

      • @noride@lemm.ee
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        141 year ago

        To clarify, you are directly equating dog breeds with different races of humans so you can paint op as a eugenics apologist, and win an online argument about dogs? Did I get that right??

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】
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          1 year ago

          Yes, all these ban pitbull people are eugenicist apologists. That’s facts. They might be useful idiots, but they have been tricked by pseudoscientific lies about genetics and behavior.

        • hiddengoat
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          11 year ago

          Breed restrictions are a soft way of telling certain people that they’re not welcome by forcing them to choose between their pet and living in a given location.

          It’s redlining via an external factor that isn’t considered discriminatory. Some idiots look at a hard number “2,000 deaths in 30 years, OMG DANGER!” and refuse to accept the fact that per capita there are more dangerous dog breeds out there. But not by much, because the odds of you being killed by a dog are so preposterously low as to be irrelevant to your daily life.

        • @Forester@yiffit.net
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          -111 year ago

          I am merely reading the man statements at face value. Quote" “It’s the owner not the breed.” And “Breed is not a reliable predictor of aggressive behavior in dogs.”

          Those statements just aren’t true. Dogs are specifically bred for certain physical and behavioral traits"

          If you do not see that as the definition of eugenics then I don’t know what to say in regards to your assessment.

            • @Forester@yiffit.net
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              01 year ago

              Sweetheart I’m not the one saying that the genetics of a being make up the beings responses. That’s you and your buddy. I’m over here saying that genetics does not define the responses of a being. For the uninformed this means I do not believe in the false science of eugenics.

          • Pitbull dogs that were bred for fighting were euthanized if they attacked people. Also, most pitbulls were not used in dog fighting.

            So really you just sound stupid.