This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.
Be idealist all you want. If you try to convince someone to join or support your cause by angering them, it won’t work. You form enemies, not allies.
If the purpose of this was to make the bikers feel good while turning people against bikers, I’m sure it worked. This protest isn’t going to make someone in a car 30 minutes late and think “hey those cyclists just going through red lights, the wrong way, making me late, they got a real good point.”
People need to be realistic and realize that whimsical ideals don’t seamlessly translate to reality.
You are the white moderate MLK warned was worse the Klan members.
Not wanting people to drive bikes into traffic and through red lights makes me racist and worse than KKK? That’s a reason to bring up race and go after my skin color? Damn you are racist AF…
You live in a fantasy world and are doing nothing but use the actions and words of great people to push your nonsense agenda. You should be ashamed.
No, it doesn’t make you racist. You’re just showing the same moral failings as the white moderates MLK warned us about. You prefer an unjust peace to any struggle for justice. If you were in 1940s Germany, and you were stopped at a train track watching cattle cars full of people being taken to death camps, your only complaint would be that the train was blocking your path.
It’s wild that you can claim to know exactly what I would do. A smart man would know better than to make such strong assumptions about someone’s character.
Your logic doesn’t hold up because this isn’t a struggle for justice. This is people driving head on into traffic through a red light. By your warped world view I can do anything I want and say it’s for a cause, and if you disagree you just want unjust peace.
This is paper thin logic hanging onto a concept you don’t fully understand.
You’re already my ennemy idiot. These people are spreading lung cancer. Get ducked
I never drive a car you moron. The last time I was even in a car was like 3 months ago. How about you?
What an absolute embarrassment of a bad take. You people are just so eager to fight everyone you insult people who want the same thing. That’s why you end up with pointless, performative protests like this that change nothing. If you were interested in having people join your cause you wouldn’t be attacking anyone who doesn’t shut up and nod along.
How about you stop making wild, dumb ass assumptions about people who disagree with you all because you don’t know how to process your emotions. Wake up.