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Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a dog with a shovel (www.theguardian.com)

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Revealed: former colleagues claim Kevin Roberts told them he killed a neighbor’s pit bull around 2004

The man behind Project 2025, the rightwing policy manifesto that includes calls for a sharp increase in immigrant deportations if Donald Trump is elected, told university colleagues about two decades ago that he had killed a neighborhood dog with a shovel because it was barking and disturbing his family, according toformer colleagues who spoke to the Guardian.

Kevin Roberts, now the president of the Heritage Foundation, is alleged to have told colleagues and dinner guests that he killed a neighbor's pit bull around 2004 while he was working as a still relatively unknown history professor at New Mexico State University.

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Two other people -- a professor and her spouse - recall hearing a similar account directly from Roberts at a dinner at his home. Three other professors also said they heard the account at that time from the colleagues who said they had heard it directly from Roberts.

None recall Roberts -- who worked at the university as an assistant professor from 2003 to 2005 -- ever saying that the dog he allegedly said he killed was actively threatening him or his family.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I get what you're saying, but I honestly feel like you're being disingenuous here. Only in exaggerated media (shows, movies, music videos) do predominantly POC own pit bulls, which is where the stereotype came from.

Where I live, it's mostly white people that own pit bulls and such. And it's also those same white people that are mostly impacted by such legislation. Personally, I think it's utter bullshit to ban an entire breed of dog and I've seen so, SO, SO many people literally saying all put bulls should be put down.

I call those people "dog racists," and they always fail to see how their line of thinking could extremely easily be switched to a group of people rather than dogs.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just because people have done great work to undo that horrible unjust stereotype does not make the lived experience of people like me and so many others any less real.