Oh come now before you fully succomb to this fashion of peeing up the wall to see who is the biggest victim.
Dear readers, please observe this thread title as an example that pays testament to the importance of concision, consideration, and aptness. Over-exaggeration, and clichéd language soon pervades ones mode of thinking (the whole 'Language influences...Thought influences...' circle.) When our vocabulary is diluted with banalities and extremities, each word looses is devoid of its meaning and consequently its power - one needn't read further than 1984 or some Noam Chomski to gain a better appreciation.
Now how many cyclists do you know have been targeted and been abused despite having no connection with the attacker. Are there political parties set against 're'patriating cyclists to a long lost land. Are you deemed unintelligent, subhuman, and lacking in culture, aptitude, or refinement. Is your culture belittled, and mocked to the extent that it is downgraded to petty brainwashing 'edu'tainment for children. Are you stereotyped as inhuman, and portrayed as ineffective regularly through all media channels. The answer I am confident in imagining, is none.
So we might sometimes get a wrong deal, some simplistic stereotypes as eco-warriors may be common-place, and evidently some fools may decide to single you out for being different (cue facebook, or stupid comments.) However to put this on par with racism or xenophobia is at best glib, and at worst mindlessly disingenuous.
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