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Old 05-16-19 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by livedarklions
Well, we'll never actually know, but I'd bet money he wouldn't have written "3 white kids" if that had been the case.

Honesty is definitely not doing as the OP did--bringing up the race of the perpetrators, then acting shocked that people thought he brought up the race of the perpetrators. I wouldn't have said anything about it if he hadn't been so disingenuous about that.
The OP did not project on to others from his incident or generalize or repeat stereotypical BS about anybody who was not a direct participant in the incident.

Let us expand on the proper way to report bicycling incidents on BF.

If for example, I/you/someone posted "Three white middle-aged dudes wearing cowboy hats and tattoos in a pickup truck threw beer cans at me and called me vulgar names" or "A suburban soccer mom in an SUV cut me off and called me vulgar names as she blew the horn at me."

What would you bet that the upstanding citizens of BF would NOT get immediately bent out of shape and hijack the thread with moralizing about the irrelevance of specifying, the race, age, or appearance of the perpetrators, or the type of vehicle etc.?

There are numerous posts on BF that include ranting all sorts of derogatory and insulting generalizations and stereotypes concerning the mental processes and anti-social behavior of pickup truck drivers, SUV drivers, soccer moms, non-urban residents and almost anybody who uses a motor vehicle instead of, or in the vicinity of bicyclists.

Don't recall seeing much instant heartburn of the PC types over such posts.

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