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No, the sentence is missing a comma. The incompetent driver part is the factual point of the observation. The casual mentioning of Asian and Indian is the racist part.
I love how you go straight to crying racism when it’s not that in the slightest. It’s simple math and factual information. Poor driving in those cultures is exceedingly common.
They do not often come from countries where there are proper traffic laws or where people actually obey whatever traffic laws there may be. They just go where they want when they want and good luck to you if you’re in the way. Go look at videos of driving in those countries and prove me wrong.
Where I live and work the population is 75+% Asian and Indian and they are the ones driving the overwhelming majority of the Teslas and literally asleep at the wheel or watching a movie or don’t care whatsoever who or what is around them on the road. They look at you like you’re crazy when you called them out on something terribly unsafe that they did on the road next to you in front of you or otherwise near you. They look at you like you’re crazy when you try to let them know that they don’t have any working brake lights - This is my favorite one I see all the time.
There are weekly or more than once per week posts on local subreddits and elsewhere about terrible driving here.
Nothing racist about it or me, it’s just facts. Those two videos I linked show you just a tiny sample of the nonsense we see here. Get off your goddamn high horse and don’t call me a racist.
I co-coach a little league team with Asian and Indian dads, work with many smart Asian and Indian people, I have nothing personally against these people, I’m just stating pure facts as it pertains to driving and Tesla ownership in this area.
OK, let’s talk facts, since that is what you are using to justify your casual racism.
CA has a much larger population of Asian and Indian people than TX, with 17% Asian (including Indian) versus 6.4%. Based on your “factual” data, that would mean that CA should have more traffic accidents, right? Then why does TX have a 20% higher fatal accident rate than CA? Let’s say it is because they drive faster out there on the open roads than we do in crowded cities. Then why does TX have a 40% higher overall accident rate than CA? These are statistics adjusted by population, so it isn’t just because CA has a higher population. We drive in high traffic more often and should have more accidents. Yet we don’t.
OK, let’s just say TX is its own crazy ass world, since it is. Let’s look at Santa Clara County versus Los Angeles County. Both are high population cities with high Asian populations and mild weather. Santa Clara County is 43% Asian, while LA County is 16.4% Asian. Based on your “factual” analysis, we should expect a MUCH higher traffic accident rate in Santa Clara County. Then why does LA County have a 30% higher accident rate than Santa Clara County?
Look, it’s OK to be a little bit racist. We all are. Just recognize it and learn more about yourself and the world around you.
You can tell someone is incompetent because they’re Asian or Indian?.. Holy racism Batman!
No, the sentence is missing a comma. The incompetent driver part is the factual point of the observation. The casual mentioning of Asian and Indian is the racist part.
Review my response above and get back to me when you come to your senses.
No racism involved here. Just facts.
I did and laughed at it. Then I replied with actual facts to debunk your racist “facts.”
I see no reply whatsoever.
I love how you go straight to crying racism when it’s not that in the slightest. It’s simple math and factual information. Poor driving in those cultures is exceedingly common.
They do not often come from countries where there are proper traffic laws or where people actually obey whatever traffic laws there may be. They just go where they want when they want and good luck to you if you’re in the way. Go look at videos of driving in those countries and prove me wrong.
Where I live and work the population is 75+% Asian and Indian and they are the ones driving the overwhelming majority of the Teslas and literally asleep at the wheel or watching a movie or don’t care whatsoever who or what is around them on the road. They look at you like you’re crazy when you called them out on something terribly unsafe that they did on the road next to you in front of you or otherwise near you. They look at you like you’re crazy when you try to let them know that they don’t have any working brake lights - This is my favorite one I see all the time.
There are weekly or more than once per week posts on local subreddits and elsewhere about terrible driving here.
Nothing racist about it or me, it’s just facts. Those two videos I linked show you just a tiny sample of the nonsense we see here. Get off your goddamn high horse and don’t call me a racist.
I co-coach a little league team with Asian and Indian dads, work with many smart Asian and Indian people, I have nothing personally against these people, I’m just stating pure facts as it pertains to driving and Tesla ownership in this area.
Not sorry if you can’t handle that.
OK, let’s talk facts, since that is what you are using to justify your casual racism.
CA has a much larger population of Asian and Indian people than TX, with 17% Asian (including Indian) versus 6.4%. Based on your “factual” data, that would mean that CA should have more traffic accidents, right? Then why does TX have a 20% higher fatal accident rate than CA? Let’s say it is because they drive faster out there on the open roads than we do in crowded cities. Then why does TX have a 40% higher overall accident rate than CA? These are statistics adjusted by population, so it isn’t just because CA has a higher population. We drive in high traffic more often and should have more accidents. Yet we don’t.
OK, let’s just say TX is its own crazy ass world, since it is. Let’s look at Santa Clara County versus Los Angeles County. Both are high population cities with high Asian populations and mild weather. Santa Clara County is 43% Asian, while LA County is 16.4% Asian. Based on your “factual” analysis, we should expect a MUCH higher traffic accident rate in Santa Clara County. Then why does LA County have a 30% higher accident rate than Santa Clara County?
Look, it’s OK to be a little bit racist. We all are. Just recognize it and learn more about yourself and the world around you.