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.
It’s not. What’s going on here is that dogs were bred for different things. Retrievers retrieve. Pointers point. Herders herd. Pitbulls lovers don’t like that pitbulls were bred to fight bulls and then bred to fight other dogs in pits. So they say “it’s all how you raise them” and any discussion about genetics they say is doggy racism, the same as human racism. Problem is dogs were specifically bred with artificial selection for hundreds of years (which is a ton considering dog years and big litters).