Goodbye Toronto's Bike Culture

So tell me you fucking dick how my observations are invalidated?

As a child-immigrant to Australia living in mainly new suburbs filled with immigrants from all around the world how was my generation responsible for the racially bias policies of the previous 200 years?

And how is that related to legislators scoring cheap points on 'public safety' whilst doing nothing to change the habits of drivers?

Is that aimed at me?

I didn't say it invalidated your comments and I didn't imply that.

It was a fact that an Aboriginal in a jail in Western Australia "in the 1980s" (did you miss that part?) had slightly more chance of leaving police cells dead than black South Africans in the same situation. I don't really give a fuck whether it was 200 years of policies or a recent change, that's irrelevant and I made no mention of such.

My suggestion - correct me if I'm wrong - was that the culture in Western Australia (where I admit I didn't go to) from the people I know who've lived there and told me how they viewed life, was that it was far more "1940s" than Britain at the time. Would you disagree with that and in fact it was a forward thinking haven of inclusivity and tolerance where people could, for example have been openly gay?

That was backed up by the further comments you made about idiot teens throwing things at cyclists etc. and the fact that you sounded glad to leave the place.

So I then suggested that you might - if that was the case - not get QUITE the same reaction to an automatic helmet law in this country as somewhere like Western Australia. Mainly because there would appear to be some very obvious cultural differences. Does my post make more sense to you now?

After distancing yourself so far from the people you described, I'm sorry you then took my post so personally, when it wasn't aimed at you in any way.