London Taxi Driver’s Warning About Bicycle-Based Future Backfires Spectacularly

London Taxi Driver’s Warning About Bicycle-Based Future Backfires Spectacularly

Thomasthetaxi's misjudged tweet.





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The far-right Twitter user "polNewsNetwork1“ shared an innocuous photo in 2017 taken by a New York City subway rider of a drag queen and a woman in a niqab, chirping: "This is the future that liberals want.“



The tweet was widely shared and wickedly mocked, with most respondents welcoming the photograph's inclusivity.



This-is-the-future-that-liberals-want became an almost instant meme, and is still often trotted out today, mocking right-wing squeamishness.



The original poster, since suspended from Twitter, was trying to sow hatred and division by portraying an "everyday scene as being full of dark intent,“ surmised Vox at the time.





Similarly, a tweet posted by a London taxi driver on July 31 has also backfired. Tweeting purloined photographs of Dutch parents ferrying their children on bikes and in the buckets of cargobikes @thomasthetaxi asked, "Is this what we really want to see on the morning school run?“



3,000 or so people replied "yes““”including Greater Manchester's walking and cycling commissioner Chris Boardman and Brompton Bicycle's managing director Will Butler-Adams.





In Twitterspeak, the knocking comment has therefore been "ratioed.“ This is when a tweet attracts a higher ratio of pillory