"This doesn't make sense" is how conversations are shut down. It's also a form of gaslighting." You COULD have simply said: "I don't understand how that works. Please explain what you mean."

Simply put: Dogs will take after their humans. The entire point of my comment and a large point of the article to which I responded. There IS no "racist" pet. But there are racist humans who, whether intentionally or not, train their dogs to react to BIPOC the way that humans do. I suggest reading up on that or googling it or simply asking a Black person who is willing to accept the cognitive load of Black-splaining their experiences to you. And there might be no such Black person in your life, I understand. Living and breathing in a white supremacist world is difficult and full of gaslighting. Having someone, even a good friend, act new and ask you about lifelong horrors they and the generations before them have lived is ... not anything anyone wants to YET AGAIN regurgitate for someone who will never understand it from the inside. But if you do have such a someone, please listen and don't add to them doing your cognitive work for you by arguing semantics when they tell you about something this painful. When they take the time and take on the PAIN of sharing their history and experience, and that of those they know and love. It's a TRUTH of Black experience that racist people can and do have dogs who respond with malice and fear and anger to Black people, because that's what their humans do. Just as those same dogs respond to "walkies!" or "food!" or "vet!" Or even to an owner who smells of happiness ... or fear and anger.

Is there a racist dog? No. But there are racist people, and dogs learn to respond to external stimulus, be it person or thing, the way the humans that they love respond to a that same stimulus. You don't have to like that truth or agree--and you've never been on the receiving end of it, it's not surprising that you wouldn't like or agree--but whether you do or not, it's still provably true.

Instead of dissecting the wording of the article and my response as if THAT'S the theme and largest issue, perhaps try applying those skills to the problems of racism, and how it can burden those on the receiving end, in measure large and small. WHY the truth of this article is true and has been for so long. Don't miss the forest for a single tree. That helps no one and appears as bad faith dis-ingenuousness.

Also, please note, that there is, unfortunately, a difference between feminism and intersectional feminism. And the difference matters. You might look into the Combahee River Collective, if you care to, for more information. And Kimberlé Crenshaw. Peace, and be well.