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  • JayDee@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Beacons
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    3 days ago

    Probably because the entire western world didn’t systematically buy and enslave kidnapped pale people, treat them as subhuman and breed them like livestock - so it’s not as touchy a subject.

    Edit: Guess that’s still a touchy subject. You wanted an answer for why it’s still socially acceptable to joke about pale skin but not dark skin, and that’s pretty obviously the answer why it’s not the same thing.

    Or maybe the downvotes are because the breeding only happened in the Southern US and French, German, British, Australian, and Belgian lemmies don’t wanna get roped in on that specific colonial history.


  • Perfect example of how legislation doesn’t really make roads safer when the designs directly encourage the illegal behaviour and there’s not enough police to enforce it everywhere.

    Narrow the intersection to one lane, elevate the crosswalk to sidewalk height, block parking two car lengths before the crosswalk, and turn the beg buttons into hard-countdown crossing buttons.

    Since pedestrians have right-of-way at crosswalks, we should be designing the crosswalks to reflect that. Otherwise we’ll continue seeing this kind of behavior from drivers.