Veronica Cane
verocane.bsky.social
Veronica Cane
@verocane.bsky.social
Internet explorer and random fact-checker.
No unsolicited DMs please.
Reposted by Veronica Cane
The Big Food corporations used the tobacco industry’s strategies and specialists to target children, and according to lawyers they especially targeted “black and hispanic children, with integrated marketing tie-ins with cartoons, toys and games, along with social media advertising.”#opcanary
December 19, 2024 at 3:23 AM
If I had time/money/energy/etc. I'd love to do in-depth research going through more historical articles/books & interviewing Blacks & Latinos outside my circles/platf. & write about this. In the meantime, I collect info & hope others will investigate/ask questions too. Thanks for listening!
December 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
The racialization of Pit Bulls by those who supposedly care about Blacks and Latinos but IMO are using us to protect dogs from regulations has led to some advocates maybe misguidedly making some problematic comparison between race and breed too. evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
December 20, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I say older African Americans & Latinos to check Dickey & Delise's narratives. I think they actually pushed the racialization of Pit Bulls. Delise leveraged Vick's arrest to start the narrative. Her book is available online for free. Find it and fact-check it against primary sources too.
December 20, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Sorry I brought u into the fold. I saw ur last name and my not yet caffeinated brain almost started writing to you in Spanish despite u clearly not identifying as Latina. I apologize again but also ask u to speak w/ older Latinos & African Americans abt how they feel re: Pit Bulls being "our dogs."
December 20, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Read up on BFAS and the AFF/NCRC, their history and how they work. Why does a dog breed need a lobbying organization that uses the same playbook the tobacco industry and more recently Purdue Pharma used?
December 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
*Alleged* threats. She might have been yelled she was a liar by victim advocates or those who knew about Pit Bull history, but she spun it into it being dangerous to write about the dogs.
December 20, 2024 at 3:24 PM
I'm not asking you to just believe what I'm saying. I'm asking you to go through primary sources available through the Library of Congress, Hathi Trust, Newspapers.com, Google Books, etc. and fact-check her, too, and especially to fact-check quotes from her book before sharing them.
December 20, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I don't know what your experience as a Latina is, but my experience as a Latina old enough to remember the 80s & who also lived in predominantly Black neighborhoods for many years, was that Dickey was full of it & that's why I started fact-checking her book.
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 PM
This is a follow up Q&A: youtu.be/u8qmJxTOu_E?...
Pit Bulls Unleashed: Q&A - The Fifth Estate
YouTube video by The Fifth Estate
youtu.be
December 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Canada's CBC didn't address Dickey's claims about the history of the Pit Bull or race, but spoke with a Pit Lobby rep, a plastic surgeon, animal activists, and victims about the bite data.
youtu.be/iFa8HOdegZA?...
Pit Bulls Unleashed: Should They Be Banned? - The Fifth Estate
YouTube video by The Fifth Estate
youtu.be
December 20, 2024 at 3:07 PM
This is what I'm referring abt regarding threats: indyweek.com/culture/art/...
December 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Dickey, I'm sure than on advice by the Pit Bull lobby, was very smart in saying she'd received death threats & that it was all about racism b/c it painted any criticism as racial hatred & made ppl scare to speak up lest they were treated as racist.
plus.lapresse.ca/screens/1502...
Qui veut sauver les pitbulls ? - La Presse+
Les deux camps – pro- et anti- pitbulls – ne se livrent pas seulement à une guerre d’études. En 2010, les promoteurs des pitbulls ont détourné vers leurs sites le trafic internet destiné à l’associati...
plus.lapresse.ca
December 20, 2024 at 2:57 PM
There is a strong lobbying organization that's been working on rewriting the history of America's fighting dog & sadly, money talks. This is from another person who in 2016 questioned how Dickey didn't include Stratton, another well-known figure in the APBT world:
www.facebook.com/groups/54530...
Dog Adoptions Gone Bad | It is very curious that Bronwen Dickey never interviewed or mentioned the grandfather historian of pit bulls in her book | Facebook
It is very curious that Bronwen Dickey never interviewed or mentioned the grandfather historian of pit bulls in her book. Please go here to watch this fascinating Youtube interview that contradicts a....
www.facebook.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:54 PM
It's sad, but nonfiction books don't get fact-check by publishing houses & people who write book reviews most of the time don't fact-check either.
americanlibrariesmagazine.org/latest-links...
Why do publishers refuse to fact-check nonfiction? | American Libraries Magazine
Emma Copley Eisenberg writes: “From reading up on the subject and talking to friends who had published books of nonfiction, I knew that I would be responsible for hiring and paying a freelance fact ch...
americanlibrariesmagazine.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:46 PM
I shared a link to JL Colby's 1936 book. Why would he address the bad reputation of the breed & say, as people say now, that the breed was misunderstood, if the breed reputation had been as great at the time as Dickey claimed?

Why doesn't coverage from the time doesn't align with her narrative?
December 20, 2024 at 2:44 PM
This 1947 art. talks about the EBT as well as the PIt Bull Terrier -APBT/Staffordshire Terrier (now AST). Read the last paragraph: www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

Take a look at other clippings in these profiles:

www.newspapers.com/profile/jpc9...

www.newspapers.com/profile/JPC2...
Article clipped from The Cincinnati Enquirer
Clipping found in The Cincinnati Enquirer published in Cincinnati, Ohio on 9/21/1947.
www.newspapers.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:42 AM