260
I thought bike lanes were ‘DEI.’ Then an SUV killed my father
(www.washingtonexaminer.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2026
260 points (97.8% liked)
Not The Onion
22467 readers
1590 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
How are bikes even DEI? Riding a bike is ableist and exclusionary. In order to ride a bike, a person must have two reasonably strong legs (or arms, in the case of a handcycle) and to go any great distance, the rider needs to be in pretty good shape.
I am not saying we should not have bike lanes, since they provide an additional, clean and healthy mode of transportation, but I just don't see them as DEI.
Easy, "DEI" means "some stuff that changes the status quo and makes my life 0.0001% different sometimes"
Words lose all meaning when held by a bigot
Using DEI as a negative adverb is just openly admitting being a fascist.
So you want uniformity, inequality and exclusion?
It's like being against antifascism.
because poor people or non-whites might use them to travel outside of their own neighborhoods and into the domain of white folk with more money.
Don't most bike lanes also allow things like Mobility scooters on them for people with disabilities?
It’s DEI because “everyone I know drives a car”
i'm disabled as fuck. i use a tadpole etrike (that cost way less than any car i've ever bought) as my primary means of transport for anywhere within 20 miles. if i want, it's just my thumb exercising. my county has very good infrastructure tho. it's not as exclusionary as you'd think.
edit: my bike is on a rack while i get a new inner tube, otherwise i'd take a better photo: here's Sweet Marie with 60ish pounds of kitty litter in the back. probably a year ago? i've added two mirrors and rotated the basket.
Bikes cost way less to buy and maintain then than cars, therefore economically disadvantaged people can more likely afford them compared to cars. Building cycling infrastructure is unironically DEI because it promotes Diversity, Equality and Inclusion of road users who otherwise wouldn't be able to use the road due to systemic injustices.