It’s super fucked up how white Americans can’t process the value and dignity inherent to life unless they can personally connect.

They are not outraged when cops murder a person because they are too racist to connect with a person who doesn’t look “them or theirs”, but they are outraged now because they had a dog once and are imagining their dog baking to death in a vehicle desperately yelping to be let out.

There is a fundamental disconnect in their minds, for they cannot somehow find it in them to make a similar connection for the human. They cannot imagine their son being murdered by the police, but they can imagine their pet. To them, the value of those murdered by police is akin to livestock.

I have zero doubt only a fraction of a percent of the outraged are vegan and have zero ability to emphasize when this happens en masse during a culling event.

Individualism and atomization taken to the extreme, empathy only for those one is connected to or can imagine a connection to without any understanding of collectivity. I hate this country so fucking much, America delanda est.

Also the outrage of the residents really shows the humanity scale of black and brown people in this country.

I remember reading that the number of complaints that police departments get when they shoot a dog is multiples of killing a PoC.

Extremely low. Us cops kill thousands and thousands of dogs with impunity each year. I think it's a very important phenomena to study when trying to undeerstand america's revolutionary potential. Americans, as you note, often value dogs more highly than people. If many thousands of americans, each year, will not pick up a gun to avenge their dog, then i think we should not expect revolutionary action that year. If we see a year in which the killers of dogs are themselves killed, or violence is brought against them, then i think it would show that americans have learned courage and certain revolutionary actions are possible.

how many cops actually get fired for shooting dogs