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Funny part about a lot of stigmas, they're undeserving.
This sport biker culture and the stigma surrounding it, is very deserving and entirely self-inflicted.
It's not like a racial stigma or stereotype where society pretty much creates boogeymen out of certain demographics, and as a result that demographic is denied certain privileges, then as a result of aforementioned denial of privileges, people from low-income backgrounds succumb to the lure of easy illicit money. Then because a small part of a demographic actually fits into the stigma society created of them to begin with, the ENTIRE demographic is that much more stigmatized, a self-fulfilling prophecy by the haves forced on the have-nots.
(Merely an example, not trying to create a race derail or anything).
No, this stigma is entirely created by the buffoonery sports bikers.
ENTIRELY.
You dudes deserve every bit of criticism being directed at you and it's absolutely up to you dudes to change that perception of you.
It's not even like people lump you in with actual 1% biker society either. Most folks know that there is a deviation, a clear distinction. Hell most of us laugh when dudes on crotch rockets get together and pretend to act hard because the truth is you guys make NO NOISE in the criminal underground.
Looking at the FBI NGIC I see not one sport biker club listed as a threat, ON ANY LEVEL.
So it's cute how you guys get together wearing leather cuts, patched up, emulating the real thing. It really is, it's freakin' ADORABLE.
I just want to pinch your cheeks sometimes it's so cute.
But at some point in your lives, hopefully far before your 30s, it's time to grow up and start treating your motorcycles for what they are, a mode of transportation.
This sport biker culture and the stigma surrounding it, is very deserving and entirely self-inflicted.
It's not like a racial stigma or stereotype where society pretty much creates boogeymen out of certain demographics, and as a result that demographic is denied certain privileges, then as a result of aforementioned denial of privileges, people from low-income backgrounds succumb to the lure of easy illicit money. Then because a small part of a demographic actually fits into the stigma society created of them to begin with, the ENTIRE demographic is that much more stigmatized, a self-fulfilling prophecy by the haves forced on the have-nots.
(Merely an example, not trying to create a race derail or anything).
No, this stigma is entirely created by the buffoonery sports bikers.
ENTIRELY.
You dudes deserve every bit of criticism being directed at you and it's absolutely up to you dudes to change that perception of you.
It's not even like people lump you in with actual 1% biker society either. Most folks know that there is a deviation, a clear distinction. Hell most of us laugh when dudes on crotch rockets get together and pretend to act hard because the truth is you guys make NO NOISE in the criminal underground.
Looking at the FBI NGIC I see not one sport biker club listed as a threat, ON ANY LEVEL.
So it's cute how you guys get together wearing leather cuts, patched up, emulating the real thing. It really is, it's freakin' ADORABLE.
I just want to pinch your cheeks sometimes it's so cute.
But at some point in your lives, hopefully far before your 30s, it's time to grow up and start treating your motorcycles for what they are, a mode of transportation.
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