AMAIRUKUHN EDGYKAYSHUN STRIKES AGAIN: KINDNESS TO DOGS IS RACIST By for Giza Death Star
It’s been a very long time since I’ve had a rant about Amairikuhn edgykayshun, but this story, shared by V.S., vaulted right into the finals folder. When I read it, I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or rant, and ended up doing all three. It seems that the latest lunacy to hit the Amairikuhn quackademy is the notion that being kind to animals – particularly dogs – is somehow a sign of white supremacy and patriarchy and… well, rather than me tell you, just read the article (if you can stomach it):
So here it is:
In her recent book The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals, Katja Guenther claims that dogs are being killed because of “capitalism, anthroparchy, white supremacy and patriarchy.” She argues that allowing dogs to sleep inside is a privilege reserved for the white and wealthy and that policies against keeping dogs chained up in backyards are intended to oppress people of color by imposing “middle-class norms of animal keeping in which companion animals are considered family and treated accordingly,” which ignore the fact that people of color “are themselves trapped in poverty, may have few options for legitimate income generation and possibly rely on their dogs for … status.
The first time I read this, I was angry, the second, I was sad, the third, I merely laughed. And what the heck is “anthroparchy”? And do I even care to know? (Probably not.) And most people I know that have dogs, whether inside or outside, have them because they like them. We’ll get back to that. But wait, there’s more:
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She appears to be arguing that if a person of color can turn a profit or build a reputation through animal exploitation that excuses animal suffering—even in the case of sadistic animal abuse: “From a class perspective, wealthy people are believed to be too ‘civilized’ to engage in barbaric activities like dogfighting, and it’s no coincidence that the only affluent person who has been publicly shamed for dogfighting in the U.S., Michael Vick, is Black, newly wealthy after growing up in poverty.”
