It& #39;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& #39;m like https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧐" title="Gesicht mit Monokel" aria-label="Emoji: Gesicht mit Monokel"> on this enthusiastic sharing of a foreign government& #39;s soft power propaganda 1/10 https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1301020772551385091">https://twitter.com/BrentTode...
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?

2/
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">https://www.nytimes.com/interacti... #1619Project

...Scandinavian countries, w/ admired social programs, are more racially homogenous 3/
Why Doesn’t America Have Universal Health Care? One Word: Race

The nation’s first federal health care program served freedmen after the Civil War. From the beginning, white legislators argued it would breed dependence.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html
RE maintaining Whiteness, Amina shared how Denmark is FORCING redevelopment & relocation (urban renewal) of racialized nbhds like MjĂžlnerparken b/c racialized ppl apparently don& #39;t deserve prime real estate & to protect the Danishness of urban areas
https://twitter.com/bambinoir/status/1297720043153702917">https://twitter.com/bambinoir... 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& #39;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">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monk... has discriminatory policy and racist violence, some of the world& #39;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">https://www.thelocal.dk/20170510/... 6/
Analysis | Denmark already had a Muslim ban. It was just called something else.

Yes, Denmark.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/23/denmark-already-has-a-muslim-ban-its-just-called-something-else/
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">https://twitter.com/GordonDar... h/t @BuiltJustice 7/
I mean... https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1300852814835523584">https://twitter.com/QuickTake... (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">https://twitter.com/mssinenom... 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& #39;t a req& #39;t for excellent cycling infra*, then which diverse places have it? Show THAT! 9/10
* The caveat being that AAA cycling infrastructure alone isn& #39;t enough to keep Black people alive while cycling, exhibits A) https://grist.org/cities/biking-while-black-is-a-thing-too/">https://grist.org/cities/bi... B) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-08/-safe-streets-are-not-safe-for-black-lives">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti... C) https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32783551/cycling-talk-fight-racism/">https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a... D) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/06/18/Whose-Streets-Black-Streets/">https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/...

RIP #DijonKizzee and #AvanteReynolds

10/10
“Biking while black” is a thing, too

A Fort Lauderdale bike registry program aimed to reduce theft, but it also gave cops a reason to stop cyclists, and — surprise! — African Americans took most of the heat.

https://grist.org/cities/biking-while-black-is-a-thing-too/
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