{"id":141267,"date":"2021-02-17T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=141267"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:43:53","slug":"professor-shelter-animals-are-being-euthanized-because-of-capitalism-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-shelter-animals-are-being-euthanized-because-of-capitalism-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor: Shelter Animals Are Being Euthanized Because Of \u2018Capitalism,\u2019 \u2018White Supremacy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofessor-shelter-animals-are-being-euthanized-because-of-capitalism-white-supremacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=141267&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Pit-bull.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A professor at the University of California-Riverside wrote a book that argued animals are being put down in shelters because of \u201ccapitalism\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gender and sexuality studies professor Katja M. Guenther writes in her book \u201cThe Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals\u201d that shelter animals are subject to euthanization thanks to American systems of \u201ccapitalism, anthroparchy, white supremacy, and patriarchy.\u201d The book also argues that allowing dogs to sleep inside is a privilege reserved for \u201cwhite and wealthy\u201d people.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a book review in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/areomagazine.com\/2021\/02\/01\/critical-race-theory-is-coming-for-the-dogs-katja-guenthers-the-lives-and-deaths-of-shelter-animals\/\"><span>Aero Magazine<\/span><\/a><span>, the author argues that any policy that discourages people from keeping dogs chained up in backyards is intended to oppress people of color. These policies impose \u201cmiddle-class norms of animal keeping in which companion animals are considered family and treated accordingly.\u201d Such policies allegedly ignore the fact that people of color \u201care themselves trapped in poverty, may have few options for legitimate income generation and possibly rely on their dogs for \u2026 status.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The book is written from the perspective of Monster, an adult pitbull impounded in an animal shelter in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLike many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated with marginalized humans and assumed to embody certain behaviors because of his breed,\u201d the book description<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=32332\"><span>reads<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201c[Guenther] argues that these inequalities are powerfully linked to human ideas about race, class, gender, ability, and species. Guenther deftly explores internal hierarchies, breed discrimination, and importantly, instances of resistance and agency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/areomagazine.com\/2021\/02\/01\/critical-race-theory-is-coming-for-the-dogs-katja-guenthers-the-lives-and-deaths-of-shelter-animals\/\"><span>Aero Magazine<\/span><\/a> <span>book review, author Nathan J. Winograd, who is an animal shelter director, said that Guenther rejects objectivity in her book and research. Rejecting objectivity is a core tenet of critical race theory, which Guenther studies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span>Guenther deliberately rejects objective evidence of this kind, admitting that \u201cit is not possible for me to be impartial\u201d: \u201cI was trained in sociology, a discipline that emphasizes impartiality and the need to systematize observations and analysis in ways that distance the researcher from the researched. I deliberately turn away from these tendencies and instead embrace the messy possibilities of being a researcher with complex ties to the social setting I am analyzing.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>At best, the book presents subjective feelings, anecdotes, and even guesses as compelling evidence for its conclusions \u2014 at worst, it ignores evidence to the contrary.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>According to Guenther\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katjamguenther.com\/\"><span>website<\/span><\/a><span>, she holds a Ph.D. in sociology and works within interdisciplinary feminist and critical frameworks. Guenther\u2019s main areas of research, writing, and activism are \u201cfeminist politics and human exploitation of non-human animals.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI am interested in understanding how and why inequalities of gender, race, class, ability, and species reproduce so reliably, and what we can do to challenge these inequalities,\u201d Guenther writes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The professor says she is currently working on developing \u201ca feminist analysis of how rescuers of companion and free-roaming (aka \u2018wild\u2019 animals) represent and negotiate their relationships and relations of care with disabled animals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Guenther is not the only professor to tie critical race theory to animals. According to<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/profs-interspecies-intersectionality-theory-bad-dogs-face-marginalization-akin-to-racism\/\"><span>The College Fix<\/span><\/a><span>, a professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at Kansas State University offered a hypothesis on how \u201cbad\u201d dogs face marginalization akin to racism. The book is titled, \u201cBad Dogs,\u201d and describes the \u201cintersection between animal politics and social facets such as gender, sexuality, and race.\u201d The professor calls this \u201cinterspecies intersectionality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at the University of California-Riverside wrote a book that argued animals are being put down in shelters because of \u201ccapitalism\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d\u00a0 Gender and sexuality studies professor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181408,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Pit-bull.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Professor: Shelter Animals Are Being Euthanized Because Of \u2018Capitalism,\u2019 \u2018White Supremacy\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Pit-bull.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Professor: Shelter Animals Are Being Euthanized Because Of \u2018Capitalism,\u2019 \u2018White Supremacy\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}