I can't decide if your response is in jest not not. In case not, I'll clarify by saying I don't care what the breed is. A legitimate service animal is one actually trained to perform a specific task vs. just being declared a service animal for the convenience of skirting the rules to bring the animal onboard.
Plus the passengers who will want to call it a service animal to avoid the fee or to avoid having it be in a carrier.
Conductors are not going to question a dog that has been declared a service dog unless it does something disruptive. Like the so called one that bit an LSA and another that was growling at passengers.
I will not argue that you feel that way. But will ask you to please tell me what makes you feel that. Perhaps it can be a learning experience for me. The post I quoted spoke of an experience in Mexico, while I referred to the many bus services that cater to Mexican people moving pax between major cities and border cities. Demeaning? How?
Apology accepted. I may have been thinking Amtrak was striving to reach the high-level of service afforded by some of these carriers, which are, IMHO, far better than "the dog"....
You forgot three things:
But (as I attempted to point out in a now-exorcised post) the term discrimination has other meanings, and benign ones too. Such as differentiating between two different things, telling the difference. It used be a compliment to say that that someone had discriminating tastes - they could tell a good wine from the swill. Many radios even have a discriminator circuit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%E2%80%93Seeley_discriminator ...so the term can even apply to inanimate objects. Nowadays, however, the term almost automatically conjures up its negative connotation. But in the benign connotation, we all discriminate: It's how we learn what's dangerous and can do us harm (red hot stove burner) and what's OK (a butterfly). English is a terribly complex language. The next time you're in the dining car across from someone speaking broken English - ask them.
Here is my point.....
<Whew!> Thanx for finally finally saying so. Your previous posts you had me convinced you were a fringe lunatic pet advocate. A bit like the cruise ship passenger I read about who would bring a little Chihuahua into the formal dining room in a baby stroller and feed the little darling table scraps - much to the disgust of her human dining companions.
Calling something or someone "Mexican" isn't a slur in Texas. Where I live people of Mexican heritage represent the vast majority of citizens, both documented and undocumented, and don't generally see such heritage as negative or shameful.
I wouldn't say they're happy with it. The Mexican bus companies are notoriously dismal spendthrifts that run poorly managed services on improperly maintained hardware between dilapidated stations with sloppy drivers. I think the main crux of the point was that Mexican bus companies represent the bottom of the market, not because they're owned/managed/operated/patronized by Mexicans but simply because of the market to which they cater and their stingy fly-by-night attitude toward safety and maintenance.
Glad it wasn't a big Chihuahua! What do you have against Mexican dogs? Chihuahua is capitalized! Estoy bromeando!
