Dog fighting was/is culturally acceptable in segments of the black American urban community, while the cruelty is obviously terrible and unacceptable, I wouldn’t be overly judgmental and say you have “zero” sympathy him, that’s very harsh given the context of McClellan’s upbringing. The relationship most westerners (usually people of European descent) have with dogs is uncommon and unique in the world, mistreating dogs to most westerners is akin to mistreating a human, even worse perhaps. But that’s not how the majority of the world’s population relate to dogs.
cry me a river
When did I say *some* humans haven’t been friends with dogs for thousands of years? Different cultures relate to dogs differently, that doesn’t excuse mistreating them but it does color whether you interpret their behavior as irredeemable or not.
When did I make an excuse for his behavior? I literally said the behavior was unacceptable.
I didn’t play it off like anything, you simply were triggered and decided to read it that way.
You really need to work on your reading comprehension. I never said man’s relationship with dogs was uncommon in world history, I said it was uncommon in the world. Meaning the majority of the world does not relate to dogs in the way westerners do, that’s a FACT. Your attempt at making western culture and experience w/ domesticated dogs normative to the rest of the world is simply wrong. Your moral grand standing and emotion based responses have completely blinded you to the point i was making, my original point was about whether McClellan is irredeemable and if he deserves any sympathy, it was NOT about whether what he did was wrong. I already said multiple times what he did was unacceptable and wrong. Grow up and stop being overly emotional about this, you’re only proving my point.
The west isn’t a monolithic culture, segments of the black urban community (and perhaps other communities) have attitudes towards dogs that are closer with other parts of the world. This doesn’t excuse the mistreatment of dogs but it makes it easier to understand how other people might view dog fighting as not being on the same moral plane as mistreating or killing humans. I suggest you look into Mike Vick’s life and see how he’s transformed himself after his conviction, even long after he’s served his time and done his probation he’s STILL making amends for what he did and is by all accounts a totally changed man. He was redeemable, and I don’t see a reason why McClellan couldn’t have been redeemable had it not been for his injury.
It has more ties to southern white American culture. It's does marginally make It's way to impoverished Urban areas. However, as an organized illicit sub culture it's ran by the south & rural White Americans at a much larger scale.
Take notes @usernamee
I have owned working dogs in the past, and i have no issue with dogs working at all, but taping a dogs mouth shut so it cant defend itself is not an African American problem, or any other human problem, its a cunt problem
Nobody is denying that.
Huh? People starving for food & fighting for survival didn't have the concept of pets. The domestication of wolves to dogs was based on a symbiotic relationship. Not a Disney movie. Man needed protection and help hunting, wolves didn't mind having meals that weren't always life or death scenarios. Or if taken as a cub and not taught to hunt would be dependent on humans for food and shelter.
