[sustran] Re: A very short list of very bad practices

[Karthik Rao-Cavale]

Speaking of victim-blaming, I'm surprised no one has brought up this ghastly
case where the mother of a child killed in a road accident is being charged
with manslaughter. It's just shocking. Deeply, profoundly, shocking.

http://t4america.org/blog/2011/07/18/prosecuting-the-victim-absolving-the-perpetrators/

Also, without meaning to pimp my own work, I recently wrote an article in
which I argue that the relationship between motor vehicles and pedestrians
is analogous to that of colonizers and the colonized.

http://vishwakarman.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/taming-street-peopl-civilizational-project/

2011/7/21 eric britton <eric.britton at ecoplan.org>

> Subject: Victim Blaming
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> Thank you very much Morton.  I find your analysis excellent, as always
> from, you considered and sober (I guess that is because you are a Icelandic)
> and all in all a good guide to the topic and possible next steps.
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> I wonder if I might ask you to write this up an article for World Streets,
> and of course for this forum, on what you call so rightly Victim Blaming.
>  An excellent topic, quite at the level of good sense at which we need to
> operate. Moreover it's great stuff because it is so thoroughly
> counter-intuitive and against the grain of unexamined but passively accepted
> standard  practice.  It certainly has to be right up there in the top rank
> of the pantheon of Worst Practices, and I know that you can do a great
>  piece for us all on this so as to make sure that becomes part of the
> battery of tools and awareness is which are so essential to getting
> transportation related policy decisions right.
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> I very much hope you will be able take the time out of your busy schedule
> to do this for us all.
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> In closing I would like to make a brief remark about the importance of
> treating this little Worst Practices exercise in a properly mature manner.
>  There is in the very title, Worst Practices, a somewhat jocular stab at the
> concept of Best Practices with all of the pretentiousness and potential
> dangers that such a mindset inevitably  carries with it.  I have no great
> problem with Bet's little cousin Good Practices, but when we begin to get
> into the hallowed halls of "Best Practices" and I find myself getting a bit
> obstreperous.
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> "Worst Practices" is like Richard Strauss's opera the Rosenkavalier.  As
> one critic put it long ago: to be viewed with a wink in one eye, and a tear
> in the other.
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> Eric Britton
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