In response to a New York Times magazine hit piece against bikelanes, one writer deconstructs the quintessential elements of anti bike arguments.
Adam Sternberg, writing for the 6th floor column of the NYT magazine, notes how a recent article typifies anti-bike lane punditry.
"[John] Cassidy's post - which has already been called 'a seminal document of New York City's bike lane backlash era'- helpfully includes all the requisite rhetorical tactics, thus providing an excellent blueprint. (You might even say 'boilerplate.') These include:
Pre-emptive self-exoneration; Invocation of humorlessness of cycling advocates, preferably with ironic comparison to homicidal political faction; Reference to ominous encroachment of cycling-based anti-Americanism; Invocation of personal cycling bona fides; and invocation of obviously repellent stereotype[s]."
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