It's no big mystery that racially & economically homogenous countries find it politically easier to pass broad pro-social programs, like excellent cycling infrastructure. So I'm like 🧐 on this enthusiastic sharing of a foreign government's soft power propaganda 1/10 https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1301020772551385091
Like did you all never wonder how Portland, like the whitest city in the US, has amazing cycling infrastructure but is also a place of extreme segregation and racial violence?

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RE maintaining Whiteness, Amina shared how Denmark is FORCING redevelopment & relocation (urban renewal) of racialized nbhds like MjĂžlnerparken b/c racialized ppl apparently don't deserve prime real estate & to protect the Danishness of urban areas
https://twitter.com/bambinoir/status/1297720043153702917 4/
The role of a cycling embassy (again soft power propaganda) is to whitewash an extremely unjust society historically and today to be palatable to the predominately white and male decision-makers in global positions of power. This is Whiteness reproducing itself. 5/10
The Netherlands, a darling of cycling porn, is also well-regarded for its social programs and what appears to be a relatively homogenous populace. Again, cycling performs as propaganda to disguise an ugly past and present of exclusion

https://twitter.com/GordonDarroch/status/1271426826968207367 h/t @BuiltJustice 7/
I mean... https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1300852814835523584 (h/t @BuiltJustice) comes after a long and brutal colonial history in Africa and SE Asia

Plus eugenics, a tenet of white supremacy steeped in ableism, racism and misogny https://twitter.com/mssinenomine/status/1301205967330144256 8/
The Q for @BrentToderian is cycling infrastructure for WHOM? If a relatively homogenous society created by racist immigration, reproductive, eugenics, housing & other social policy isn't a req't for excellent cycling infra*, then which diverse places have it? Show THAT! 9/10
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