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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
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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Maintaining Whiteness requires force: "keep out" + institutionalized neglect.
In the same way the US lacks broad social programs due to racism... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html #1619Project
...Scandinavian countries, w/ admired social programs, are more racially homogenous 3/
In the same way the US lacks broad social programs due to racism... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html #1619Project
...Scandinavian countries, w/ admired social programs, are more racially homogenous 3/
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/
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
Exactly how racist? Let's have a look.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/23/denmark-already-has-a-muslim-ban-its-just-called-something-else/
Denmark has discriminatory policy and racist violence, some of the world's toughest immigration laws and policies that force racialized people into ghettos https://www.thelocal.dk/20170510/racism-plays-a-key-role-in-migrants-exclusion-in-denmark-report 6/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/23/denmark-already-has-a-muslim-ban-its-just-called-something-else/
Denmark has discriminatory policy and racist violence, some of the world's toughest immigration laws and policies that force racialized people into ghettos https://www.thelocal.dk/20170510/racism-plays-a-key-role-in-migrants-exclusion-in-denmark-report 6/
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/
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/
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
* The caveat being that AAA cycling infrastructure alone isn't enough to keep Black people alive while cycling, exhibits A) https://grist.org/cities/biking-while-black-is-a-thing-too/ B) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/-safe-streets-are-not-safe-for-black-lives C) https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32783551/cycling-talk-fight-racism/ D) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/06/18/Whose-Streets-Black-Streets/
RIP #DijonKizzee and #AvanteReynolds
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RIP #DijonKizzee and #AvanteReynolds
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