• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Honest question, Is it racist to train a GSD to take commands in German, or to put a musher hat on an Alaskan Malamute? They are dogs that come from an nation/state. Or are you trying to say that a sombrero is offensive to the people of Mexico?

    The fact that people are being deported based off how they look or where they come from is racist, I can’t see how honoring a heritage or bringing cultural differences into your culture is racist.

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      6 days ago

      Is it racist to train a GSD to take commands in German,

      Unless you’re German, it’s at least weird and notable, because why? The dog doesn’t speak German, any more than the average USian who calls themself German-American because of that one ancestor who immigrated from Germany 300 years ago.

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        5 days ago

        That’s exactly the point, dog trainers do quite often use commands in other languages so that the dog doesn’t hear the command words in everyday life and gets desensitized to it.

    • FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      When your anti-ICE meme is indistinguishable from anything a white supremacist group would make celebrating ICE there are some problems.