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[–] yeepyorp@mtgzone.com 80 points 1 year ago (5 children)

god can we not bring pitbull discourse here

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love all dogs but I can still appreciate a good pitbull eating kids joke. He just looks so happy.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 1 year ago

It's just got as a sidedish the face of its owner.

[–] Captain_Ender@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

You mean the literal dog whistle for racists? Because a large portion of pit owners are POC so they get to spew their hate without saying it out loud. Ever wonder why they get all bloodthirsty about killing those dogs? There ya go.

I was mauled by a German Shepard with shitty owners when I was a kid. They're literally trained for military and police work, yet where are the GSD hate groups? It's almost like the people who hate pits, are the same who bootlick LEO and have thin blue line stickers. It's almost like breeds don't matter, it's the training by the owners.

Even despite that experience, I don't hate GSD, I hate shit owners. Shit owners make shit dogs. It's either that or Patrick Stewart is secretly pulling the veil over all of us.

But it's not really the dog they hate... so yeah let's not have them here.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has anyone even mentioned the ethnicity of the owners though?

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

That's why it would be a dogwhistle

[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pitbulls account for 70% of fatal dog attacks, while only being 6% of dogs. It's not a dog whistle, pitbulls are a violent and dangerous breed, and everyone I know with a pitbull is white as fuck.

[–] yeepyorp@mtgzone.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Tavarin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Nope, pitbulls are a violent and dangerous breed. Labradors vastly outnumber them, yet never kill anyone. And there's plenty of shitty Labrador owners out there.

Breeds do matter, and shit breeds make for shit dogs.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

… GSDs are just as common on banned breed lists as pitties.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

You know, I've never thought of it from that angle before... You appear to be correct based on my preliminary fact checking:

https://law.lclark.edu/live/files/32171-25-1-third-articlepdf#:~:text=3%20Strong%20cultural%20ties%20exist,of%20this%20breed%20of%20dog.

I haven't read this entire study, to be fair. But it does go into detail on this topic.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It's the same deal as them hating welfare, weed, crack, the homeless, the poor, and people with "low IQ" (That one's mainly Jordan Peterson).

It's a tried and true strategy to push minorities into poverty and bad/desperate communities, then turn around and use that as justification to discriminate against them, "but not for their skin color, it's because of xyz".

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What discourse? A bunch of people spewing debunked myths that align with their personal beliefs yelling at a bunch of people with thought out positions based on research?

[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol both sides will read this comment and think you're talking about the other one

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you Gaylord_fartmaster. You recognizing the joke is the highest praise a poster can desire.

[–] yeepyorp@mtgzone.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

anyone can say this about any disagreement in existence

i don’t even know what side you’re on that’s how vague this is

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were literally bred to fight

Most pit bull-type dogs descend from the British Bull and terrier, a 19th-century dog-fighting type developed from crosses between the Old English Bulldog and the Old English Terrier.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty funny winding up pitbull owners though.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago