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 @dee34601 when there is impunity, it feels like people park in the bike lane just to humiliate cyclists. Of course being a cyclist is temporary and voluntary, unlike racial caste, but reading about the little humiliations of Jim Crow I often see the exact same behaviors toward cyclists. Like being forced to use the service entrance. And of course having safe infrastructure taken at any moment. When the state doesn't back the drivers, when there is recourse, their behavior is less humiliating.