Excerpt from Huffington Post Green (see this week’s logo appearance below)
HuffPost Green is launching a week-long, community-driven effort to bust the myths and raise awareness about pit bulls, a maligned “breed” that often bears the brunt of dated, discriminatory legislation that can make it near impossible for these dogs to find a forever home. You can follow along with HuffPost Pit Bull Week here, or on Facebook and Twitter where we’ll be using the hashtag #PitBullWeek.
HuffPost’s animal welfare editor Arin Greenwood starts off this week with an article titled “10 Stereotypes About Pit Bulls That Are Just. Dead. Wrong.” She addresses some of the more commonly heard myths about these dogs and provides a brief answer to dispel some of those thoughts.
Sure at some point we’ve all read the posts, seen the cute pictures, and watched the comments pour in through social media ‘dispelling pit bull myths’ and we each have our own beliefs and reasons behind why we advocate for pit bull type dogs.
But as social media has been such a brute force in pushing ideas (both negative and positive) — seeing a somewhat well-known media entity launching a campaign, even if only for one week, shows something. What is that “something?” Well, it’s still to be determined. We’ll probably see both (1) an outpouring of support for pit bulls and (2) a backlash against them all across the internet over the next few weeks.
If you choose to participate in any discussions, please consider how your words might be received and if you are helping to spread a positive message, with constructive dialogue and accurate information.
We try to keep this in mind with everything that Love-A-Bull shares with the world, to support one of our primary goals — to help advocate through education. Make friends with people and appreciate their interests. Stereotypes, fears, and misconceptions are often simply a lack of knowledge.
Already there are some really great (read: adorable and I mean seriously adore-a-bull!!!) pictures and stories of pit bull type dogs feeding into HuffPost from their own editors and from across the web — and there are only more to come this week.
