Posted on 04/22/2024 1:29:22 AM PDT by Libloather
This is a ruff take!
City-dwelling dog owners are marking their “colonial” territory with pooches who are “gentrifying” neighborhoods, critics say in a bizarre online debate.
Sparking the controversy was a story in The Cut that delves into the growing hostility between dog owners and the dog-free in New York.
The article quotes Mia, of Prospects Lefferts Gardens, the proud owner of two terriers, who noticed a growing anti-dog sentiment brewing on her community Facebook group.
One post about picking up dog poop eventually spiraled into bonkers accusations that the pooches of PGL were “gentrifying the neighborhood.”
Mia, a New York-born Latina, told the outlet upon reading this she wondered “Are they saying that only white people have dogs?”
Another woman with an off-leash dog was apparently confronted in Prospect Park by someone filming her with her cellphone camera.
“She was asking me why I thought I was special, why my dog didn’t need to be leashed. Was it because of my white privilege?
In a viral tweet this week, an X user ran sparked further debate.
“Dogs in large cities are essentially settler-colonial—a way for their owners to move into and occupy more of the urban space than they are allotted while making it everyone else’s problem,” the tweet reads in part.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Odds are it is the Muslims that are pushing for a dog-free future.
NYC needs to be both Dog and Peeps free. [4 da ERF]
Just don’t move anywhere close to my ‘hood.
The irony in light of the squatting problem.
That said, people who think they and their dogs are so special that they don't need to leash them, and refuse to clean up after them are some of the most obnoxious folks going.
Some dog owners think everyone else's property are their mutts bathrooms.
Increasingly they are bringing their dogs everywhere, grocery stores, restaurants, you name it, where they don't belong.
Very likely.
But going after people's pets is going to rile people who normally would bend over.
Those who call their pets *fur babies* are not going to take it well. Whoever is pushing the no pet thing is taking on someone they are not going to want to mess with.
Yep. Amazes me how dogs in the burbs get walked with longish leashes—and are just allowed to go up and pee on the middle of someone’s lawn.
Of course, the next dog comes along and aims for the same spot and pretty soon the green is washed away.
Be careful. FreeRepublic is filled with dog nutters who think their animal’s feces are magical chocolate gumdrops and its urine is golden elixir from heaven. Every public space, from airplanes to parks to restaurants, must be given over because “dOgs aRe BettEr thaN PeoPLe.”
You haven’t noticed the growing trend of people ****ing and ****ing in the streets, sidewalks, and yards of America?
Those damned Dutch. I guess Mia doesn’t think of the Spanish as colonizers.
Like this will improve with millions of “Newcomers”.
“taking up more space than they are allotted” is an idiot axiom.
in any town, if you have pets, you look to space that YOUU CAN AFFORD.
this ‘allotted’ eja
culatory thought is socialist, and not part of the American housing marketplace.
true, the mohammeds of the world dont care for pets. if they dont like the idea of American pets, they can leave.
i, having owned Dobermans and Siamese cats under one roof, in my yoounger years, am perfectly fine with folks and their pets, whether mohammeds like it or not.
Normal, sane people don't talk like that.
Normal, sane people don't talk like that, either. (see my previous post)
Looks like a conflict between two difference species of lunatic.
Where's the popcorn?
;'}
Just another reason to stay FAR away from cities, esp NYC.
Muslims AND COMMUNISTS hate dogs.
From “The Gulag Archipelago”:
“And soon afterward they began a persistent campaign against his second friend — the dog. Dogs had to be registered; they were hauled off to the skinners; and often special teams from the local soviets simply shot dead every dog they came across.
“And there were no hygienic or miserly economic reasons for this — the basis was much more profound: After all, a dog doesn’t listen to the radio, doesn’t read the papers; he is a citizen who is, so to speak, beyond the control of the State, a physically strong one, moreover, but his strength goes not to the State but to defend his master as an individual , without regard to any kind of decree that might be issued against him in the local soviet and any kind of warrant they might come to him with at night.”
Every time I hear prattle like this I recall Derek's (Robert Downey Jr.) line from Back to School about the anti-pep rally:
Derek : Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
Dogs are “gentrifying the neighborhood.”
But homeless bums are adding Character................
Dogs are not better than people. They are just better than you.
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