Ana & Marxist Writer Break Down A Major Mistake The Left Is Making

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"Here’s a piece from New York’s Curbed vertical about the efforts of the Eric Adams administration to address ongoing community safety concerns about various types of motorized, two-wheeled vehicles. Favored by delivery drivers and related workers, these electric bikes, mopeds, scooters, and similar are very often driven in ways that are dangerous and, usually, illegal. The piece, by Mark Healy, is reported out and doesn’t arrive at an explicit thesis; it also directly reflects on why such a crackdown has come to pass - because these vehicles operate in a totally lawless fashion and make the city more dangerous and unpleasant. Still, the essay is identifiably a part of a very active genre in media these days, a genre in which liberals fret vaguely about issues of disproportionate enforcement in policing and impact on marginalized groups etc etc. It’s the kind of thing that urban left-of-center media thrives on.

Healy opens with an anecdote about a sympathetic delivery driver whose bike has been impounded because he was unlicensed, and such stories power the piece. Throughout, there’s swipes taken at the Eric Adams mayoral administration, which has earned a lot of legitimate criticism; it’s also the case that complaining about Adams has become a station of the cross for a certain kind of bourgie New Yorker. (It’s hard to believe that he won the election, until you remember a few things, and then it isn’t.) It’s an interesting piece and I appreciate the perspective. It’s also all very much a particular kind of 2020s New York thing, one that I find reliably unhelpful."

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