This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    118·
    9 days ago

    “I don’t protest racial injustice by going to a segregated lunch counter. That could get you hurt.”

    -Lightor, c. 1960.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        87·
        9 days ago

        Lightor, 1960:

        I’m with you. I get this is a protest, but I don’t protest gun violence against kids by parading them down a firing range. Taking up the space in a whites-only lunch counter can result in you getting hurt, it doesn’t matter what should be our what your ideals are. It’s a restaurant for white people and behaving like this increases the chance that someone gets hurt.

        On top of that this does what every protest that interrupts business, makes people dislike you and your cause.