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Friday, July 15, 2022

Good thing I didn't name that asshole dog Jack 'Tyrone' huh?

Academics recently applauded a Social Psychology Quarterly study purporting to show a disparity in the time dogs were adopted based on racial associations with the animals’ names.

“White” names, according to the study, resulted in shorter adoption times compared to “Black” names.

The correlations were largely concentrated around pit bulls, “a breed that is stereotyped as dangerous and racialized as Black," according to the study.
-MH

*****

Because I threaten that fucker with the pound on a daily basis.