Highlights: In a bizarre turn of events last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he would ban American XL bullies, a type of pit bull-shaped dog that had recently been implicated in a number of violent and sometimes deadly attacks.

XL bullies are perceived to be dangerous — but is that really rooted in reality?

  • rodolfo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the thing about prejudice in the title is absolutely, deeply, fantastically true. I, too, think that it’s a prejudice to believe that is possible to control animals bred with the precise intent to maul.