• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I’m not sure if anyone else here has mentioned this… At least up until Uber/Lyft came out, taxis were suuuuper racist. It was really hard for black men to hail taxis.

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      5 months ago

      I remember one time, in Boston, I (white dude) was downstream of a black guy.

      Cabbie went right by the black guy and stopped for me.

      Black guy came running up and slashed his tire and then ran off.

      I was like “cabby deserved it, but at the same time black guy justified it.”

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        5 months ago

        Not really a justified decision if it was the wrong one. The cabbie got his tires slashed by being a dickhead. If he’d have not been a racist, he would’ve had no problems. This is like the guy in the meme who puts a metal pole in his bike spokes. Cabbie caused his own problems.