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I got a good one. If you prefer a certain breed of dog to another breed, is that racist?

Posted - September 1, 2019
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  • What is this all about now? I like Labs. 
      September 1, 2019 6:55 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    HA!. An anti-beagleite. BREEDIST.
      September 1, 2019 7:08 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Oh really?  You think your Lab is better than that Shitzu next-door?

     

    RACIST.

      September 1, 2019 11:04 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Nah---it's like having a favorite color---(accidental forms, not substantial ones)
      September 1, 2019 6:59 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Having a favorite color, huh?  Like maybe WHITE?????
      September 1, 2019 11:05 PM MDT
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  • 44620
    What a great question. If you apply that to humans, does that mean we are just different breeds of the same species? To answer your question...It depends on how big a dog snob you are. Are dogs racist? Would a French poodle show dog named Fluffy look down upon an old coon hound named Booger? No, they would just sniff each other's butts and go on their way. The owners, Mrs. Moneybux and Bubba might be.
      September 1, 2019 7:02 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Donald Trump does not like dogs.  
      September 1, 2019 11:05 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Nup.

    In days gone by (Rudyard Kipling's time - when the British Empire was at its peak and Europeans were almost universally racist), the English language often used the terms breed and race interchangeably, as if they were the same thing.

    breed - noun - 
    a stock of animals or plants within a species having a distinctive appearance and typically having been developed by deliberate selection.
    synonyms - variety, stock, strain, line, family, type, kind, sort, class


    race - Oxford English Dictionary definition no. 2

    • Each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics.

      1.  The fact or condition of belonging to a racial division or group; the qualities or characteristics associated with this.
         
      2. A group of people sharing the same culture, history, language, etc.; an ethnic group.
         
      3. A group or set of people or things with a common feature or features.
         
      4. Biology A population within a species that is distinct in some way, especially a subspecies.
         
      5. (in non-technical use) each of the major divisions of living creatures.
         
      6. literary A group of people descended from a common ancestor.
         
      7. archaic mass noun Ancestry.

    racism
    1. prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
      synonyms: racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice/bigotry, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, bias, intolerence
       
      the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

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      Domestic breeds of animals are not natural occurrences; they have been selectively bred to favour specific physical and behavioural traits. No one could validly claim that one breed of dog is superior to another except for specialised purposes. When breed selection for type became too extreme, veterinary problems caused by inbreeding appeared. Breeder's associations are still working to reverse these problems.

      Humans have not been selectively bred for specific purposes. There were attempts to do so in America's slave-owning southern states, and elsewhere at other times and places - but none of these ever bred a genetically distinct breed or type of human. This is probably because slave-owners usually raped their slaves - continually putting their own genes into the mix.

      If one were to compare humans grouped according to appearance but no other trait, and then compare the groups for traits such as intelligence, creativity, empathy, and physical traits such as speed, strength, agility, endurance - one would find that no group was superior to any other. This has been scientifically proven, many times over. From a biological and genetic point of view, the human genome is all one. Individual traits such as skin, eye and hair colour and type do not and cannot predict better or lesser abilities in other traits. Therefore, no race can be superior to or less than another. 

      When a human chooses a particular breed of dog as a pet, the selection tends to be based on need. But it can also be based on appearances, or on charity in the case of animals rescued from the pound. Some owners might quite often think their breed of dog is superior in some way - but I doubt that they would claim it was superior to all other breeds for all purposes.

      Think back to when the Vikings invaded England, circa CE 793 - 1066. The blond and red-headed giants were seen as a separate race and regarded with fear and horror by the diminutive fair-skinned, grey-eyed, brown-haired Celts, and by the honey-skinned, brown-black-eyed, black-haired descendants of Romans. They hated each other's guts for hundreds of years. And yet today they see each other as just different variations of white.

    When we've succeeded in getting rid of racism, we will acknowledge different colours, cultures and so forth, but we will have ceased to see colour in humans as a predictor of anything.

    Hopefully, one day, the meaning of the word race will refer to competitions in speed and nothing else.
    This post was edited by inky at September 2, 2019 8:38 PM MDT
      September 2, 2019 8:32 PM MDT
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  • 423
    Well, it seems just as discriminatory as preferring one author over another, or (say) Braised Venison over Macaroni Cheese. In my time, have come across a lot of prejudice against Macaroni Cheese. 
      September 7, 2019 6:52 AM MDT
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