I’m just passing by to marvel at how somebody on good old car-hating Lemmy managed to pull off the mental gymnastics to arrive at the conclusion “mass transportation (a bus) is bad now.”
Let’s not forget that having the means to pull in students from a disparate area was key in finally being able to desegregate schools, literally to the extent that motherfuckers to this very day use “busing” as a euphemism for, “We’re mad about there being black kids in our kids’ school.”
We should be able to talk about how one dynamic of a society impacts another, without having to extend that to a universal moral claim about whether an inanimate object aligns with the forces of good or evil.
Employers like that parents are able to come into the office early and not have to schedule their work day around school transportation
Employers have much more power than labor does, in deciding how the US operates
Therefore, it shouldn’t be surprising that even in a culture that otherwise prefers cars to an unreasonable degree (and, as you mentioned, has a tinge of racial stigma around school buses), we nonetheless think of buses as the default mode of school transportation
I’m just passing by to marvel at how somebody on good old car-hating Lemmy managed to pull off the mental gymnastics to arrive at the conclusion “mass transportation (a bus) is bad now.”
Let’s not forget that having the means to pull in students from a disparate area was key in finally being able to desegregate schools, literally to the extent that motherfuckers to this very day use “busing” as a euphemism for, “We’re mad about there being black kids in our kids’ school.”
When did I say mass transportation is bad?
We should be able to talk about how one dynamic of a society impacts another, without having to extend that to a universal moral claim about whether an inanimate object aligns with the forces of good or evil.