Debra Keefer Ramage
1 min readDec 25, 2019

First off, I would shoot the dog. I would be sad for the dog, but really continued life as a Pavlovian-trained racist killer isn’t worth it. I would be curious what the result would be if you showed these same white people a similar dog attacking a white woman or child. I guess all it would prove is a) they would shoot the dog, so they devalue POC more than they overvalue dogs, or b) they still wouldn’t, in which case they really should go off and live with dogs. All it would do is separate the garden-variety racists from the psychopaths, but that’s useful, I guess.

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Debra Keefer Ramage
Debra Keefer Ramage

Written by Debra Keefer Ramage

Grandmother, socialist, dual citizen. Member of Twin Cities DSA since 1986. More: https://linktr.ee/debrakeeferramage

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You know what this would be a useful study to conduct. I’d be curious as to the results. It can be both an overvaluing of dogs simultaneously with a devaluing of Black and Brown ppl. But I’d still like to see this study made.

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“you showed these same white people a similar dog attacking a white woman or child.”
Think carefully…
When was the last time you saw — as a valid historical photographic resource, not some random googled photograph — a photo of a police dog viciously…

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