Nearholmer wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 8:12am
There is some genuinely, deeply disturbing/chilling stuff out there. I saw something yesterday which advocated burning transgender people in ovens, and it was attracting comment after comment in support, for instance.
As cyclists, we simply find ourselves in the crosshairs in a small way.
Where this all goes, I don’t know, but I see no organised opposition to it, either from “the guardians of democracy and peace” that we elect, or at the sort of “street fighting” level that I recall from the 1970s and early 1980s when the enemy was the NF, which in retrospect looks like a baby outfit compared with the forces of darkness at play now.
Good lord, that's terrible- as if transgender people don't have enough confusion and mental angst in their lives, they have to put up with that sort of thing...
..apart from the ctc and other organisations does there have to be an opposition to it? After all, mass car movement is self defeating - there comes a point where the road network simply will not accommodate any more cars, either parked or moving....
..anyway - perhaps the greatest argument we have, is for more people to cycle, to enjoy it and do it more often. People are very jealous of other people having more fun than them (perhaps it's the reason why the LGBT community gets targeted so often - a sense that their lives are just more happier than those who seek to oppress them). Sometimes people get so jealous they go out and have ago at it themselves, like cycling....
In lots of ways I do wonder if the whole angry thing is in part the acknowledgement that they have lost the argument. That the next generation could have much more freedom than this generation has, and it scares the hell out of them.