#racialslurs

Dog breed names are very arbitrary. The Great Dane is really from Germany, the Australian Shepherd is from America, the Labrador Retriever is not from Labrador... and so on. Dog breed names also change over time (A German Shepherd Dog used to be called an “Alsatian”), and they are different depending on which country or kennel club you listen to. Dog breed names tell us more about people than about the dogs themselves.

It has come to my attention that some dog breed names are racial slurs. Some words we take for granted are derogatory labels given by colonizers to groups or nations of people they colonized. These are culturally insensitive, triggering words. They may have no effect on me personally but that is not the point.

Dog trainer Grisha Stewart (via this facebook post ):

Here’s the thing about culturally (in)sensitive terms: the person or group being harmed by it is the only one who knows if it’s triggering, if it feels hurtful or not. To do otherwise is gaslighting.

If we care about a person or group of people, we make whatever healthy choices we can to avoid hurting them, and only they can tell us what hurts.

For example, say you have a girlfriend and you call her honeybear. That triggers her PTSD because kids at school beat her up with a honey bear (bear-shaped bottle filled with honey) and it became her nickname. So she asks you not to call her that. It doesn’t make her feel loved, quite the opposite.

It’s not your intention to hurt her. It’s not your fault that it happened. You’re not a bad person, you just didn’t know. But once you know that it feels painful to hear that name, it would be unkind and counterproductive to keep using it.

Here are dog breed names that are culturally-insensitive:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2018/08/23/ex-colts-announcers-n-word-tale-takes-a-twist-with-racing-analysts-admission/

Given the old Michael Richards treatment. The N-word is an awful word and no one should ever used it, I wish as a society we could agree on that. Madonna, Wahlberg and Biden all get a pass for racial slurs, heck even Obama admitted to using homophobic language and was still elected president. The ends will always justify the means with democrats and your political party affiliation and the way you vote is the most important aspect of your identify in their eyes.

In this article Bob Lamey & Derek Daly are guilty until proven innocent. One employee steps forward and says Lamey used a racial slur while telling a story and Lamey was saying he quoted someone and then they are both canceled. Joe Biden used the N-Word several times in congress and it was broadcasted live on c-span.

Direct Quotes:

Not long after longtime Colts radio announcer Bob Lamey abruptly retired on Sunday, news emerged that he had recently upset a black radio station employee by using the n-word while relaying a story he’d heard many years previously from another man at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

On Thursday, Daly denied being the source for Lamey’s usage of the racial slur — but also admitted to having used the word many years ago in a similar setting, in what he claimed was a misunderstanding attributable to his upbringing in Ireland. “I want everyone to know I deeply regret and sincerely apologize for what I said more than three decades ago,” Daly said in a statement.

The employee clarified that, in Lamey’s telling of the story, he didn’t say “blank” but rather the n-word. “He was like, ‘Oh I’m so so sorry. I’m so sorry if you’re offended by this. I didn’t mean to offend anyone,’ and I was like, ‘I’m black and I wouldn’t ever say that word,’ and sort of just told him how it hurt me and how I don’t think he should say it ever, even if he’s telling a story,” the employee said.