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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] DP, it absolutely belongs here. The speedy mcspeedersons on trails are menaces. And while most likely won't get violent, they're still aggressive jerks. And the underling behavior of those guys isn't different than this guy.[/quote] So first, you're conflating the entire category of people who ride bikes with the subgroup of middle-aged men in Lycra who ride bikes too damn fast on trails. And second, yes, the behavior of middle-aged men in Lycra who ride bikes too damn fast on trails actually is different from the behavior of a sixty-year-old man in Lycra who assaults college kids with his bike for putting up BLM signs.[/quote] The anger/aggressiveness is in the same vein. [/quote] I don't think that the anger/aggressiveness of affluent middle-aged white men is bicycle-specific.[/quote] It's not just middle-aged white men. Don't be a freaking racist.[/quote] There are a lot of white men who are frustrated and angered by the erosion of their privilege at the top of the food chain. Instead of getting preferential treatment, they are seeing women and minorities getting opportunities and equal treatment in many cases and instead of recognizing that others are being treated equal, they feel that they are being discriminated against because they are no longer getting opportunities that in the past would have been theirs by default by virtue of being in the privileged class. This loss of preferential treatment is causing a burning desire to return to "their rightful place" and to what they feel they are entitled to. And the current administration is only fanning the flames of that burn. Hence why white supremacists and white nationalists who had been lurking in the shadows for generations are suddenly coming out in droves supporting activism like Charlottesville and other white rallies. Where there had been a lot of progress and headway in fighting racist violence, the current administration is validating such violence. While many of the really violent actions are young white nationalists, there are many older middle-aged white men who are feeling the frustration of losing their white preferential treatment and they are acting out like the cyclist racist. There are many, many such men and whereas before they may have swallowed their bile, the current administration is giving validation to those feelings and encouraging these men to vent their frustrations whereas before they were hiding them. It's all sickening.[/quote]
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