Sidewalk Warrior

Here's a dilemma for the politically correct.

If people can be accused of racism, xenophobia or intolerance, then why do animals react the same sometimes?

I was walking down the street the other day and all of a sudden I see a dirty gypsy beggar lying in his own filth. How very typical. What seemed odd, though, was that a dog was angrily barking at this man, which made me wonder - why the apparently inexplicable aggression towards this person?

Surely, the febrile endeavours of any advocate of political correctness would eventually come up with a solution to this question. I can almost hear it: "the dog had a deviant behaviour", "the animal had not been socialized during infancy" or even "somebody must have taught the dog to specifically bark at only certain categories of human beings, in accordance to their own set of perverted preconceptions"*.

I say nobody likes smelly people. But then again, I'm not so sure about the policitally correct. They might.

* I apologize for my douchey language. It was for illustrative purposes only.