Hi there and welcome to this episode of Kennedy saves the world.

Now, here's the problem. When you run into something that you

don't like, it is very easy and very intellectually lazy to claim that whatever the thing is

you don't like has deep-seated roots in racism. And we're seeing this happen across so many elements of our cultural

spectrum, whether it's diets or exercise or home organizing or even bicycling and the

hating of bicyclists. All of these things are rooted in racism. And that is not necessarily true.

And anyone who claims to be able to connect these very loose dots, be skeptical of them.

Challenge them because they're probably wrong.

And most likely they're just making something up to try and sound profound.

One such person is a professor at the UC San Francisco, the University of California, San Francisco, a once great city.

She is now saying, her name is Ruth Malone, and she is a cyclist, and she saw some of the negative comments that popped up after a world champion cyclist named Ethan Boyce was unfortunately struck by a car and killed in San Francisco, and he was doing the right thing.

He wasn't hot dogging.

He wasn't doing some of that BMX stunt riding.

He wasn't popping wheelies.

He was just riding his bike probably pretty fast and was struck and killed by a car.

So on some of these community message boards, people blamed him and they blamed some of the other cyclists.

Now, this is what Ruth Malone had to say about that.

She said, just as those who tolerate and encourage racist, sexist, and homophobic, or transphobic comments on social media,

contribute to emboldening the people who attack in menace particular groups, people who parrot stereotypical comments about cyclists on social media

subtly encourage those who would harm them.

She goes on to say, ultimately, hate of bicyclists comes from the same place as racism,

sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, a desire to cling to the status quo power arrangements that favor

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