“Traffic Violence” : The Grifters Go After Cars
24th September 2024
I first saw this term on Hacker News. It made me vomit, and of course the defenders gave the usual accusations and evasions:
You must be in favor of traffic violence.
Language evolves; get over it.But no, we already had “traffic accidents,” so “traffic violence” is just an excuse for grifters to grift.
The first one doesn’t even deserve a response. But let’s consider the “language evolves!” defense.
This excrescence is, of course, modeled on the success of the trope ‘Gun Violence’, invented by the Woke to remove agency from the people who actually use the guns and place the blame on the guns themselves.