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)
Well the issue is that pit bull statistics are pretty unreliable for a number of reasons.
One major factor is that people are more likely to identify a dog as being a pit bull if the dog is known to be violent, same goes for if the dogs owner is black. Breed identification is difficult so we can't just take those numbers at face value.
It's also important to note that even besides identification inconsistency, the pitbulls stereotype as a violent animal draws a very specific type of person towards them, people looking for violent animals to train into being violent. Many of them have serious trauma issues or other problems from this so even adopted pit bulls become dangerous for social reasons not natural ones.
It's not necessarily impossible that pit bulls are more violent overall but there's a lot of confounding factors that need to be sorted out, and even in the worst case scenario where pit bulls might actually have a natural tendency to violence it's still likely to be a rather small factor compared to all the other causes, especially when breed stereotypes are likely overrated to begin with. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0639