>You're saying non-profits trying to save lives are the grifters?
Is that so inconceivable? Do you think nobody makes money at non-profits? Do you not know of any for-profit interests that might benefit from vilifying cars with hysterical, misleading language? How about companies selling surveillance or autonomous vehicles?
>Not the for-profit car companies selling lethal weapons to anyone old enough for a license?
Cars are not "lethal weapons" because they are not intended to be weapons. This isn't Mad Max or some video game.
>If you're more upset about the language evolving than actual deaths caused by negligent driving and badly designed infrastructure, you need a reality check.
The reality check is that everyone alive has lived with the possibility of traffic accidents, which are rare. If you feel especially car-phobic then that's a you problem. You don't get to reinvent words to exercise moral authority on the rest of us to get your way.
>This reads like right-wing agitprop.
I think you just confessed that this tactic of redefining words is common on the left. The real agitprop is what the dude here is calling out, which is the tendency to redefine things in misleading and hysterical ways and to pretend that everyone you don't like is victimizing you.
wakawaka28|1 year ago
Is that so inconceivable? Do you think nobody makes money at non-profits? Do you not know of any for-profit interests that might benefit from vilifying cars with hysterical, misleading language? How about companies selling surveillance or autonomous vehicles?
>Not the for-profit car companies selling lethal weapons to anyone old enough for a license?
Cars are not "lethal weapons" because they are not intended to be weapons. This isn't Mad Max or some video game.
>If you're more upset about the language evolving than actual deaths caused by negligent driving and badly designed infrastructure, you need a reality check.
The reality check is that everyone alive has lived with the possibility of traffic accidents, which are rare. If you feel especially car-phobic then that's a you problem. You don't get to reinvent words to exercise moral authority on the rest of us to get your way.
>This reads like right-wing agitprop.
I think you just confessed that this tactic of redefining words is common on the left. The real agitprop is what the dude here is calling out, which is the tendency to redefine things in misleading and hysterical ways and to pretend that everyone you don't like is victimizing you.