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the problem with this is: there are already thousands of people - hundreds of thousands at least - who live in places where it is not possible to get around without a car who also have no access to a car or are not able to drive one.
That is the situation today. December 4th. https://twitter.com/schmangee/status/1334890781832859653
That is the situation today. December 4th. https://twitter.com/schmangee/status/1334890781832859653
it's not a nice thing to hear, because there are of course many very poor people who rely on cars, but even if you are poor, the moment you gain access to a car, the moment you get behind the wheel, you gain immense social and physical power that harms other people and our planet
driving a car is not the same as being white, or straight, or a man; it's not an identity or social construction
But car access and driving ARE about power. It doesn't do any good to talk around this, but talking around it has been the ONLY thing we've done for at least 60 years
But car access and driving ARE about power. It doesn't do any good to talk around this, but talking around it has been the ONLY thing we've done for at least 60 years
If we banned cars from cities tomorrow, it would be very bad for a lot of people in car-dependent places. But a lot of people already live in that world. Today.
Nobody is now or has ever seriously meant "ban cars and do nothing to materially help people who rely on cars" when they say "ban cars." That's a straw man. Of course "ban cars" means "ban cars and end car dependence."
The system that would create the need to "materially help people who rely on cars" (in the unlikely event that we succeeded in banning cars from cities) is the same system that forces 84-year-old Marie in East Peoria to rely on her granddaughter for access to food *today*
things are not divided between "good" and "fascist," and there's really very little in this conversation that genuinely comes under that heading, but if anything comes close, it's the way we treat Grandma Marie
