The Forgotten History of How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking”
16th January 2015
100 years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: you walked across it.
Today, if there’s traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there’s a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green.
100 years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: you walked across it.
Today, if there’s traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there’s a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green.
‘Jaywalking’, like ‘price gouging’, ‘black marketeering’, and ‘hoarding’, is one of those made-up nasty-sounding terms the people create when you do what you want to do rather than what they want you to do. The Left are experts at this sort of propaganda (cf. ‘Islamophobia’ and the plethora of ‘-isms’ that normal people are presumed guilty of in these degenerate modern times). Governments like them, too, especially when they’re trying to abridge freedoms that in a saner time people would take for granted.