Dogs slammed as ‘settler-colonial’ as pooches and owners blamed for ‘gentrifying’ NYC by woke activists
A scourge of colonizers are shamelessly marking their territory across Gotham, leaving a path of destruction in their wake as they lay waste to the traditions and customs of the land’s rightf…
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This is a ruff take!
City-dwelling dog owners are marking their “colonial” territory with pooches who are “gentrifying” neighborhoods, critics say in a bizarre online debate.
Sparking the controversy was a story in The Cut that delves into the growing hostility between dog owners and the dog-free in New York.
The article quotes Mia, of Prospects Lefferts Gardens, the proud owner of two terriers, who noticed a growing anti-dog sentiment brewing on her community Facebook group.
One post about picking up dog poop eventually spiraled into bonkers accusations that the pooches of PGL were “gentrifying the neighborhood.”
Mia, a New York-born Latina, told the outlet upon reading this she wondered “Are they saying that only white people have dogs?”
Another woman with an off-leash dog was apparently confronted in Prospect Park by someone filming her with her cellphone camera.
“She was asking me why I thought I was special, why my dog didn’t need to be leashed. Was it because of my white privilege?
In a viral tweet this week, an X user ran sparked further debate.
A gross annoyance like stepping on a pile of dog doo might sound like an ordinary inconvenience, but it turns out it’s actually an example of colonialist oppression.ccestep8 – stock.adobe.com
“Dogs in large cities are essentially settler-colonial—a way for their owners to move into and occupy more of the urban space than they are allotted while making it everyone else’s problem,” the tweet reads in part.
According to the New York Times, “settler-colonial” is a term of art recently adopted in far-left activist circles to decry everything from gentrification to poor environmental stewardship to capitalism itself.
