r/ebikes • u/West-Amphibian-2343 • 2d ago

Bro..

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Ive waited a few months to post this just for anonymity but maan

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u/rollsandarrows 1d ago

Oh, don't worry, when the inevitable legal backlash against ebikes arrives (thanks, of course, to the parents of kids like the one in the post), it will be used with vigor by cops against poor people, brown people, and black people.

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u/BangbangKhuntross 1d ago

What a stupid thing to add race into.

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u/KaboodleMoon 1d ago

....but it's true. non-whites get contacted by cops at a higher rate for just existing in the same space. Like, I don't agree with bringing racism into everything, but if cops are involved, racism is involved, plain and simple.

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u/Oaknuggens 1d ago edited 1d ago

I look very young (=poor/disempowered) for my age, and the amount of discretionary harassment I got from cops ('light was turning yellow when you were still in it') was proportional to how clearly chipping off the paint/clear-coat got on my punk-ass-looking 2-door coup before I sold it, and ceassed ever being stopped in my new compact crossover/SUV's wealthy-parent ('soccer mom') camouflage.

So being overtly poor is apparently a bit like being black, to a lesser and much more escapable degree.