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Dog Gate 2.0 — White Liberals Cry “Poor Dog!”
You Hate When We Call Out Your Anti-Blackness, Yet Love Demonstrating It
The piece written about the importance that white people place on animal life, particularly dogs, while ignoring or minimizing the harm that Black people experience because of racism, racist and dogs was…well-received. In the sense that the comments section amply showcased white people raving from they don’t get it, to “all life matters”, to “you must not have pets”.
As such, and given the recent occurrences in NYC, it’s time to once again revisit how much emphasis white people place on their love of dogs, while ignoring the racism before them. But point it out and they lose their minds. Don’t believe me. Look at the comments for the Dog Gate piece.
The Karen Incident
Amy Cooper was walking her dog — off leash — in a section that forbids it due to the environmental damage dogs can wreak on the vegetation when Chris Cooper (no relation), a Black man and birder, told her to leash her dog.
Being told to leash her dog by a Black man unleashed her Karen mach 5 and she…
