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> You think complaining about death machines is comparable to the thousands of people inside and outside of cars who have near-death experiences every day due t

> You think complaining about death machines is comparable to the thousands of people inside and outside of cars who have near-death experiences every day due to cars? This is a wildly uncharitable and disingenuous reading of their comment. I stopped reading yours at that point, I'm sure you can do better.

nayuki 4y ago
How am I being wildly uncharitable and disingenuous? The post I was replying to said: > the anti-car stuff is becoming extremely toxic and [...] finding slightly different ways to describe cars as death machines I'm refuting the complaint about the anti-car conversation being extremely toxic because the reality of car-dominant culture is toxic. If you stopped reading my comment, aren't you choosing polarization over reconciliation? Want to see toxic? Here are a couple of posts plucked from the r/FuckCars front page: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128yjd9/i_just_want_to_walk_in_my_neighborhood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128yjd9/i_just_wa... - The norm of cars parked on and blocking the sidewalk. Do pedestrians and wheelchair users not have rights? https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1291pfo/my_foot_got_stuck_on_the_pedal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1291pfo/my_foot_g... - Car-ped collision, driver brushes it off as "oops wrong pedal". https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128qx21/cue_the_parking_lot_full_of_useless_egotanks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128qx21/cue_the_p... - Employee gets hassled for storing bike at workplace, no such treatment for storing a car. https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/129iogc/for_the_past_2_months_this_subway_exit_is_closed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/129iogc/for_the_p... - One driver having an accident inconveniences many thousands of people. Is this not a lopsided power structure? Car culture is the dominant default. It's too easy to brush off non-drivers' problems as trivial and not worth solving.

nayuki 4y ago

How am I being wildly uncharitable and disingenuous? The post I was replying to said: > the anti-car stuff is becoming extremely toxic and [...] finding slightly different ways to describe cars as death machines I'm refuting the complaint about the anti-car conversation being extremely toxic because the reality of car-dominant culture is toxic. If you stopped reading my comment, aren't you choosing polarization over reconciliation? Want to see toxic? Here are a couple of posts plucked from the r/FuckCars front page: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128yjd9/i_just_want_to_walk_in_my_neighborhood/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128yjd9/i_just_wa... - The norm of cars parked on and blocking the sidewalk. Do pedestrians and wheelchair users not have rights? https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1291pfo/my_foot_got_stuck_on_the_pedal/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1291pfo/my_foot_g... - Car-ped collision, driver brushes it off as "oops wrong pedal". https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128qx21/cue_the_parking_lot_full_of_useless_egotanks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/128qx21/cue_the_p... - Employee gets hassled for storing bike at workplace, no such treatment for storing a car. https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/129iogc/for_the_past_2_months_this_subway_exit_is_closed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/129iogc/for_the_p... - One driver having an accident inconveniences many thousands of people. Is this not a lopsided power structure? Car culture is the dominant default. It's too easy to brush off non-drivers' problems as trivial and not worth solving.