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sexy_peach@feddit.de to Fuck Cars · 3 years ago

jaywalking was invented as a way to discredit pedestrians

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jaywalking was invented as a way to discredit pedestrians

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sexy_peach@feddit.de to Fuck Cars · 3 years ago
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  • mekhos
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    As a kid seeing jaywalking “offenses” on uSA TV shows I could never work out what they were doing wrong. Turns out nothing really.

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    “Jay” was an insulting slur when “jaywalking” was coined, by American car makers no less. The term literally insults you.

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      It’d be like if we decided that it was now illegal to cross on crosswalks and called the legal term Fagwalking.

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    More context: https://www.grunge.com/721704/the-truth-about-how-jaywalking-became-a-crime/

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