Jul 132020
 

In the face of incessant yapping about “white fragility… behold:

The Unintentional Racism Found in Traffic Signals

Where the heroic, strong and brave – and not the least bit fragile – author of the piece whines about the fact that traffic signals have a “little white man,” and how much he hates asking a little white man for permission to cross a street.

The author does make a useful point: used to be a time when crosswalk signals weren’t simplistic icons of walking humanoids, but the actual words “WALK” and “DON’T WALK.” As some point that changed because were can’t rely on people being able to read… certainly not being able to read *English.*

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