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Old 08-17-2019, 02:01 PM
Burnette Burnette is offline
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Ha!

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Originally Posted by echappist View Post
Of course it does, but what exactly is this mocking? And what exactly is the take-away message?

The cyclist is shown to be in cycling gear, even not on a bike, thus suggesting that he's some sort of an "other". That he suggests an outrageous (and unlawful) response takes the issue away from accidental swerving and into the territory of "look at how unreasonable these misfits are". The original offense is trivialized, and the cartoonist goes out of his way to set up a strawman.

Just lazy, cynical, and misanthropic.
Read my post, he's not mocking all cyclist, he's mocking a zealot and again, per my post, they are among us.
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