On Tuesday, December 20, staff and students at Willard Intermediate South school were injured when two dogs identified as a pit bull mix breed made their way into the playground.
That's not a fucking pitbull then IS IT?!
The dogs were euthanized in order to be tested for rabies. The tests will be completed today, and we expect to have results within the next couple of days. During the investigation, it was determined that one of the dogs was not vaccinated and no proof could be provided that the other was up to date on its vaccinations.
So it could've been rabies but you go straight to the bullshit bioessentialism and insinuation that genetics can predispose one to violence.
Obligatory link to my effort post on this phenomenon (reddit link because the OG here is in archive limbo)
The whole pitbull thing is a self re-enforcing stereotype. Any dog involved in a mauling that looks somewhat like a pit is suddenly a pit. Then you have people who see that stereotype as a reason to get a pit because they want a violent dog and they train it to be violent.
There's definitely components of truth to pitbulls being more dangerous, but on the whole any dog that's trained to fight or mistreated has the capacity to become violent.
The real purpose of pairing mauling with pits is that the majority of pits are owned by poorer people as they tend to be most likely to end up in shelters with no adoption fee or are just around. Almost all of these are just mutts anyways because dog breeds aren't as static as people think.
This then allows for targeted denial of housing to people who on average have this type of dog.