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Repeat after me, correlation does not imply causation. Two things can be correlated without there being a cause/effect relationship.
What you're saying is essentially: Pitbull-like races are around 14% of large dogs, but are responsible for 55.9% of fatalities, i.e. more than all other combined. Therefore Pitbulls are dangerous.
I bet you would agree with that logic... Except those are not dog numbers, that's USA statistics on the African-American population. Congratulations on the racist argument.
Similarly to how there are multiple factors that explain the disparity for African-Americans there are also multiple factors at play for dogs, for example:
I'm fairly confident that if you normalize for living conditions the numbers would not show any significant difference for breeds.
Did you just call black people dogs...? What's wrong with you...
No, I showed how the argument of a minority of population causes the majority of fatalities is flawed by showing an example of the same argument no sane person would defend. The argument is ridiculous for pitbulls but people don't see it, use the same argument for people and they see why it's ridiculous.
Except no- it doesn't.
Take a pitbull and a labrador. They aren't simply the same animal with different colours.
Labradors were bred to assist fishermen in retrieving fish. So this would mean being controlled and obedient, not eating what they were sent to retrieve, etc.
Pitbulls were bred to fight other dogs- they were bred for fighting and destroying and that's it. They're essentially weapons that decide for themselves. Sure, any animal can be tamed, but it takes effort.
For your argument to work, you have to "concede" (although I wouldn't use that term because it's an outright lie) to the racist narrative or what have you that black people are inferior and have less control and are inherently less civilised than white people due to their race. So your argument is a racist one, because it assumes and only works that black people are significantly different to white people, like a different breed of human.
The differences between black people and white people in reality are negligible. They're not different breeds, they're both homosapiens. Essentially it would be like arguing black labradors are more violent than white labradors, which just simply isn't true.
Not only that, but you're trivialising the struggle of black people against racist oppression to that of people whining against their fighting dog being banned for good reason.
Worst of all, if they were the same argument, it's like telling racists that comparing black people to white people is like comparing pitbulls to labradors, which would bolster their argument massively, as they're completely different breeds of dog.
I urge you to recant your argument, you're basically saying black people are like a more aggressive, dangerous, and less controlled breed of human compared to white people which is an absolutely vile, disgusting, and false thing to say.
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