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The social change tactics being deployed in the current gun grab are not new. A local Colorado cyclist explores how these same tactics are used in another targeted area of social change: Bicycle Advocacy.
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By Principled Bicycling, on Substack
Preference laundering is a phenomenon in which advocacy groups, policymakers, and influential non-profit organizations manipulate truth under the guise of acting in the common, popular, or scientific interest. One example of preference laundering is alive and well in gun violence research and activism as described in this Open Source Defense article.
Preference laundering in this field involves selectively presenting data and policy narratives to construct public support for predetermined “gun safety” policy objectives, which are often backed by academia, unaccountable bureaucrats, authoritarian politicians, and corporate journalists pushing their preferred narrative. Public health researchers and advocacy groups frequently employ questionable methodologies, including the misrepresentation of defensive gun use statistics, the selective exclusion of declining violent crime trends, and the conflation of lawful gun ownership with criminal activity. [...]
The same tactic is evident in bicycle infrastructure advocacy with similar rhetoric towards an “epidemic of traffic violence”, where preference laundering distorts public perceptions regarding cyclist safety and infrastructure requirements.
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