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Dog was used a a euphemism for undesirable. In the more specific case of the image, black. Look at the color of the dogs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_

• thesuperbigfrog 4y ago
  Maybe. Maybe not. It was newsprint, so the color is not clear. Maybe the dog was brown: https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1862.gif https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/1862.gif Not that it matters much. I agree with the quote from the Wikipedia article: Sociologist Sherry Turkle elaborates: "You can be whoever you want to be. You can completely redefine yourself if you want. You don't have to worry about the slots other people put you in as much. They don't look at your body and make assumptions. They don't hear your accent and make assumptions. All they see are your words."
  • shadowgovt 4y ago
    > All they see are your words. Correct. And the mistake we made was assuming that that implied they weren't making assumptions.
  • bigbillheck 4y ago
    > It was newsprint Not in the New Yorker it wasn't.