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"Experts: Stop Using the Word ‘Cyclist’ Because It ‘Dehumanises’ Bike Riders"
Andre Jute:
"Experts: Stop Using the Word ‘Cyclist’ Because It ‘Dehumanises’ Bike Riders"
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/experts-cyclist-word-dehumanizes-bike-riders/
...and my family want to know why I'm rolling on the carpet in my study, laughing like a banshee.
in4:
We are a shower of first-world, virtue-signalling snowflakes aren't we! To be an ist about anything is now considered istist and a re-education camp surely awaits us all especially those who are, by their own admission , bansheeist :)
Andre Jute:
--- Quote from: in4 on March 29, 2019, 12:27:51 am ---...a re-education camp surely awaits us all especially those who are, by their own admission , bansheeist :)
--- End quote ---
Fortunately I live in Ireland, where a banshee is viewed as a sort of more amusing and less destructive leprechaun.
But, seriously for just a moment, if this could be taken at face value --
QUT professor Narelle Haworth said that the study found that 55 percent of non-cyclist respondents actually said that they consider cyclists to be “not completely human.”
-- it would be a noteworthy matter. Except I wouldn't take anything from a "professor" at a jumped-up redbrick tech as gospel. This woman in effect claims 55% of people admitted on the record that they consider cyclists to be less than human. It's BS. It would be BS, but likely better presented, even if it came out of my own Australian universities, Melbourne and Adelaide. And she wants to fix it with some minor fiddling with the descriptor: "people who ride bikes". If that verbosity ever becomes compulsory Politically Correct usage, that would be a better reason for 55% (!) of non-cyclists to hate cyclists.
in4:
I think you are right, Andre. There is a serious point to be made probably around the issues of inclusivity, exclusivity and possibly climate change.
mickeg:
I think I had heard a few times the phrase National Review in reference to an information source that some use to obtain their political opinions. I had never seen it until now. But I can still say that I have not read anything in it longer than a few phrases.
In USA, the term biker is often used for motorcyclists. To distinguish between muscle powered bike riders and motor driven bike riders, I usually avoid ambiguity and use the terms bicyclist and motorcyclist. Before I retired, some of the things that I wrote were read by thousands of scientists and engineers, I learned extremely quickly to work extremely hard to avoid any ambiguities in my word choices.
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