Dog names are racist, according to UT scholar

Racism everywhere!!!! These loons will ruin the SEC


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Dog names are racist, according to scholars

Academics recently applauded a Social Psychology Quarterly study purporting to show a disparity in the time dogs were adopted based on racial associations with the animals’ names.

'White' names, according to the study, resulted in shorter adoption times compared to 'Black' names.

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Terrance Kible '24 | Pennsylvania Campus Correspondent
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 9:22 AM

Academics recently applauded a Social Psychology Quarterly study purporting to show a disparity in the time dogs were adopted based on racial associations with the animals’ names.

“White” names, according to the study, resulted in shorter adoption times compared to “Black” names.

The correlations were largely concentrated around pit bulls, “a breed that is stereotyped as dangerous and racialized as Black," according to the study.

Below are examples of academics’ reactions to the study.


University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor of Sociology Chantal Hailey commented in a now-deleted tweet obtained by Campus Reform, “Anti-blackness is so pervasive it even expands to dog names.”



Hailey conducts research “at the intersections of race and ethnicity, stratification, urban sociology, education, and criminology.”