• spiphy@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Not really, cars are faster and more deadly. People had to be somewhat careful. The auto industry invented a slur (jaywalking) to convince people the street was no a place for people outside of a car. Look up old footage of cities, people are everywhere in the street.

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      11 months ago

      The topic is “Look at the roads, this is because of cars”… Well, no it’s not at all. It was already like this before cars were invented.

      Furthermore, Americans invented the slur. Everywhere else in the world it’s called crossing the road and is perfectly normal.