• Glytch@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Such hatred for an animal, predisposed to loving people, that has to be abused into being violent. I’m not blocking you because I want to see what other stupid shit you have to say.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        an animal, predisposed to loving people, that has to be abused into being violent.

        (warning: graphic) Pitbull puppies have been known to eat littermates down to the head, even with plenty of food available. Good luck finding a story about a labrador retriever doing that.

        You don’t have to abuse border collies for them to try to herd things.
        You don’t have to abuse beagles for them to obsessively follow their nose.
        You don’t have to abuse terriers for them to dig.

        The extremely dangerous combination of spontaneous aggression and lack of survival instinct (never seen any other breed headbutt a windshield repeatedly from the inside of a car to try and get at something outside, to and beyond the point of laceration/injury) pitbulls exhibit are, like those of the breed groups above, the result of a lot of selective breeding.

        You unfortunately can’t love the genetics out of a pitbull–if you could, there wouldn’t be any shocked loving pitbull owners who were victimized.

        • Glytch@lemmy.world
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          17 hours ago

          You’re not who I was replying to, but this is exactly the stupid shit I was talking about: cherry picked stories with intentionally inflammatory imagery used to justify unreasonable hatred of an animal that’s popular among POC. Same thing that happened with Rotties. Same thing that happened with Dobies.

    • Druid@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Harmful stereotypes are harmful stereotypes. It’s the owners - not the dogs themselves

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        1 day ago

        Lemme guess, this was about pitbulls? Seems the new mod is a defender of murder"puppies" since they warned me about providing facts when talking about them.

        https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-quick-statistics.php

        “The probability of a bite resulting in a complex wound was 4.4 times higher for pit bulls compared with the other top-biting breeds … and the odds of an off-property attack by a pit bull was 2.7 times greater.”

        “The most commonly identified breed was the pit bull … Pit bulls were also the most commonly identified breed involved in major injuries.”

        “Unlike all other breeds, pit bull terriers were relatively more likely to attack an unknown individual (+31%), and without provocation (+48%).”

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, that’s a block for me too. Anyone that susceptible to easily disproven propaganda has nothing meaningful to contribute.