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Everything is racist. First, they came for the dogs What to do if your dog seems racist — Quartz Can Dogs Be Racist? | Psychology Today Can Dogs be Racist? The Colonial Legacies of Racialized Dogs in Kenya and Zambia Ask Amy: I think their dog is racist And then the cats Is 'The Cat in the Hat' Racist? - Education Week Now we find out that racism is for the birds The Racist Legacy Many Birds Carry - Washington Post This is more in the way of statue demolitions and galaxy renamings because some birds were named by or...

In 1958 China, a public health campaign went terribly wrong. The Great Sparrow Campaign was a symbol of human folly. Millions of people perished.

Let your every morning prayer be the one that says: “Thank You Father, for Your Creation” It was only the tiniest of sparrows, but there it lay on the deck, stunned after flying into the thick glass of the window. After a few moments, it somehow struggled to its tiny feet, wobbly, then remaining stock still for 15 minutes that seemed like an eternity. It stood there as though cast in concrete, not moving a thing. Everything in this household, including pet dog, Yankee was held in suspense. We didn’t want small-dog-big-bark balustrade Yankee to frighten the little bird out...

China’s Worst Self-Inflicted Environmental Disaster: The Campaign to Wipe Out the Common Sparrow Back in the 1950s, China was going through its Great Leap Forward, an effort to transform China from a largely agrarian nation to a thriving industrial Marxist powerhouse. These sweeping (and often brutal) reforms, touched virtually every facet of Chinese life — and as one particular episode in China's history points out, the animal kingdom was also far from immune. In 1958, China ordered the extermination of several pests, including sparrows — an ill-fated campaign that eventually led to catastrophe. The Four Pests campaign Chinese leader Mao...