Have you read 1984? I'm not really following the 1984 reference.
Racism is about a belief in racial superiority or inferiority. So I guess it depends why the hypothetical serial killer hates white people.
Does he believe his race is superior to the white race and that's why he's killing white people, like a one man genocide? Then yes.
But since world war II the word has connotations of discrimination, superiority and harmful intent. Words change so the original definition isn't the correct one.
I'd give him more credit, it doesn't take a genius to encourage people to subscribe to a philosophy and or vote for a person that will benefit you.
He knows what he's doing
Under most definitions of racism that's not true. Racism is usually defined as towards a minority or marginalized group. Discrimination toward the dominant group isn't racism how it's usually understood.
Conservatives are trying to redefine it, but that's not the legal or academic definition anywhere where the courts haven't been hijacked by conservative nutcases.
They use metricification as an excuse to shrink packages in Canada a ton.
Bacon, butter and a ton of other products used to always come in pounds, labeled as 454 gram packages. Lately they've all shrunk to 400 or 350 gram packages.
The back half of millennials might not have burned CDs either.
The iPod came out in 2001, my first car I played music with a cassette-tape to aux converter and a first or second Gen iPod, my second through a USB stick plugged into an aftermarket deck I bought from Walmart. Music downloaded from Limewire.
A car tax to fund public transit is such common sense, but I don't see it ever being popular enough to become policy in North America.
Some cities have massive underground parking infrastructure which is best of both worlds.
People who want the luxury of driving can, they just have to pay the high parking prices, meanwhile the city is still walkable because we're taking advantage of vertical space.
It's the big flat parking lots and big box stores that make a city miserable to live in without a car
There's a lot of people who do want to live in dense neighborhoods, enough to drive up prices fighting over the tiny supply, but from a whole population point of view it's a minority. Politicians still listen exclusively to the suburbanites. Even in the dense neighborhoods, the NIMBYs are listened to more than anyone wanting our cities to look more like Europe or (the good parts of) Asia.
Exactly, instead of comparing EVs to ICEVs we should compare them to public transit.
If every dollar spent on EVs was being put into LRTs and regional rail where would we be?
Yeah we need cars in rural areas, but that's not where most people live.
Most servers are there temporarily as they look for a high paying salary job, either directly or by getting an education.
And in most cases, you need to be in the city to apply for those jobs, to make the social connections that can help you find jobs, or to be where the good schools are.
Once you leave the city to go get a medium-paying job in a low cost of living area it makes it that much harder to eventually find the career a person wants.
Sure it's a decent life, small town livin', if that's what you're into, but people shouldn't be forced into that lifestyle because it's impossible to live in a city on an entry level wage.