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Professor: Shelter Animals Are Being Euthanized Because Of ‘Capitalism,’ ‘White Supremacy’

Allowing dogs to sleep inside is a privilege reserved for “white and wealthy” people. 

Chrissy Clark
Professor: Shelter Animals Are Being Euthanized Because Of ‘Capitalism,’ ‘White Supremacy’
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A professor at the University of California-Riverside wrote a book that argued animals are being put down in shelters because of “capitalism” and “white supremacy.” 

Gender and sexuality studies professor Katja M. Guenther writes in her book “The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals” that shelter animals are subject to euthanization thanks to American systems of “capitalism, anthroparchy, white supremacy, and patriarchy.” The book also argues that allowing dogs to sleep inside is a privilege reserved for “white and wealthy” people. 

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