TEASER: Hashtag Ban Cars With Michael Hobbes
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Michael Hobbes, a journalist and podcast host known for his work on Maintenance Phase and You're Wrong About, joined The War on Cars for episode 72 to discuss what bikelash has in common with moral panics. In this short bonus episode, hear a part of our conversation that was left on the cutting room floor. We cover everything from how newspaper headlines absolve drivers who hit vulnerable road users and offer some advice to people who are freaking out about the #BanCars slogan.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Doug Gordon. This is a preview of a short bonus episode that's just for |
| 0:17.9 | Patreon supporters. It's a bit of extra material from our conversation with journalist Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:24.8 | If you become a Patreon supporter of the War on Cars, you will get access to ad-free bonus |
| 0:29.6 | episodes like this, as well as special discounts on merch. You can sign up starting at just |
| 0:35.4 | two dollars a month and we will send you stickers and a handwritten thank you note. So go to the War oncars.org, click support us and join the war on cars today. |
| 0:46.1 | One of the things that always I always find really striking whenever I talk about |
| 0:55.2 | cycling to my like driver friends is they're like oh they think they're so much |
| 0:58.6 | better than me right there's like this accusation of smugness of like oh they think that like just because they bike like oh they're |
| 1:04.3 | so environmentally friendly like fuck those guys and it's like what are you basing this on like |
| 1:08.9 | you just drove by a cyclist yeah I never actually say that to anybody and yet that gets thrown |
| 1:14.6 | at me all the time. Exactly, and I think it's also the same thing with like |
| 1:17.7 | vegetarians and vegans, like there's this stereotype of like the vegan |
| 1:21.3 | that's yelling at you for like even thinking about a piece of beef or like anything and also like I've never I know a lot of |
| 1:27.0 | vegans I'm from Seattle and like I've never met anybody even remotely like that it's like we have to like project this like this just kind of like |
| 1:34.9 | meanness and like over sensitivity onto out groups that make us question our own |
| 1:40.0 | choices like I think like I'm a guy that eats meat and I think it's completely indefensible and like anytime somebody says that like I'm a vegetarian or I'm a vegan I'm like |
| 1:47.6 | Ooh it probably should be too like it's really bad and like that that feeling I think represents it is like oh like oh you're pushing me around you think I should be a vegetarian too |
| 1:56.7 | And my vegetarian friends are like no we don't we're not generally we don't really care |
| 2:01.5 | But I think there is this kind of like this sense of like insecurity about it and I think |
| 2:05.2 | cyclists trigger that in a way that I think pedestrians don't. |
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