Cyclist Propoganda
By "Cyclist ", I don’t mean "one who rides a bike", but "one who hates cycles - in the same way that a racist hates people of different races from themselves."
Here’s how it works - in the absence of using actual physical violence against road users, people resort to trying to scare the bejazus out of them. It’s psychological bullying that says, "get off my road" - as shown in this image from Averyjenkins.com:
So this driver has obviously figured what people on bikes are scared of - drivers from Connecticut, in a Hyundai who see people on bikes as legitimate targets. Yeah, it’s probably meant as a joke, but let’s try it with other words. First of all with the hate that dares not speak its name:
If that doesn’t do it for you, how about this. Antisemitism is just hilarious , isn’t it:
Or why not play the race card - always good for brightening up other drivers’ commute:
Or is there some reason that these alternative stickers aren’t as funny as the original?
bravo for saying it like it is! bumber stickers are so mean
I’ve often thought about this. Funny how some groups are seen as ‘fair game’.
On the other hand, he could be admitting that he’s a lousy driver, but I doubt it.
“Some groups are fair game” because not all groups are created by choice. “Jews” and “negros have no choice to be what they are. This is one of the reasons some argue that being gay is a choise, it makes it OK to pick on gays if they choose to be that way.
I understand the point made, but it’s a fairly shallow metaphor.
One good thing about those stickers. If they did have a collision with a cyclist you know that sticker would come back to haunt them in court.
Tony - kinda. But the same logic would probably be used by the British National Party - “Immigrants choose to come here. So it’s OK to harass, marginalise, bully, and coerce them into going back to wherever they came from”.
Really, this is the language of hate.
The bumper sticker is probably less so, but certainly not that far removed. Dressing it up as humour doesn’t make it acceptable.