Does the skateboard community owe the rollerblade community an apology for bias?

[Tear Up a Trick]

“Does the skateboard community owe the rollerblade community an apology for years of bias?”

How do we feel about rollerbladers?  Why do we feel that way?  Were we taught to feel that way?  Do we feel that way simply because they are different than we are?

Have we used inappropriate and unkind terminology to refer to rollerbladers?

Have we made rollerbladers feel unwelcome, excluded, or even inferior to our supreme way of life?

Could we make good on years of inequality, and be an example to our world, by putting to rest years of extreme bias, acknowledging the pain that has been caused over the years, sincerely apologizing to the rollerblade community, and offering to help make the world a place of love and equality where skaters and bladers roll around in unity?

How can skaters claim to want to help in other areas of social injustice if we refuse to acknowledge our long held prejudices against human beings who rollerblade?

Also, what time is it where you are?

[Jean-Ralphio Zaperstein]

nah rollerblading is a choice and it looks gross

I hate on slacklining a lot more but they don't show up to the skatepark going backwards at 100mph

[ok boomer]

I haven't seen anyone on rollerblades in geez 20 years. Unless they're playing hockey and I consider that... playing roller hockey.

This reminded me of Big Brother though

[Deputy Wendell]

without a doubt, you first

[Meekin]

nah

[givecigstosurfgroms]

Nothing but love for the 'bladers' man.  Dog gone old vets keepin it alive.  At least they're off the couch, ya know?

[GAY]

Fuckin' fruitbooters.

[pdknox]

U-N-I-T-Y



ha.

[sus]

i only hate scooters tbh

[SatanicPanic]

We basically drove them out of everywhere with homophobic insults. The 90s were a shitty era

[Bob Dylan Jaeb]

Arlo Eisenburg is infinitely cooler than any modern pro skater

[50mm]

I really don't give a shit anymore about what anyone is riding as long as they are staying out of the fucking way. It still looks goofy as hell though.

[Mike Oxwelling]

How do you apologize to a species that went extinct due to their own fruition?

[Backfootnofoot]

U-N-I-T-Y



ha.

Aiden Mackey exposed.

[DA BIG BODY BENZ]

U-N-I-T-Y



ha.

Shaka bruh

[imposter]

Shut up.




Bladers are subhuman

[Roast beef]

Absolutely, they deserve justice for the years of bullying and discrimination from skateboarders. I think we should all start working on our public apologies immediately. #rollerbladerslifesmatter

[Lowcalcium]

I think I care less about what your'e riding as long as you stay out of the way. The other thing that happens at my park, is parents bring their kids to the park to ride tricycles around or just run around.

It's kinda strange because there are plenty of other places to let your child run around

[pdknox]

i cant lie.  i never personally rollerbladed, but rachard johnson and emagdnim was a heavy influence in the early 00s

now that im older im pretty sure emagdnim was a bite of aws

ha.

[Biggiemouths]

I'll throw in my girls answer when i asked her how would she feel if i was a blader :
I don't have anything against them, they just look wack and not Manly enough.
 
She does have quads and is into moxy rollerskates and all, but every time she sees a picture of a guy blading she has the sale answer, it's been 6 yrs now hahaha hell she Even diss her only blader friend

[IUTSM]

i knew some really cool cats who wore the boots. same with bmx. far more of them are still doing it than the dudes i grew up skating with too. that might be a socioeconomic piece though. i always found dudes who booted and bmxed came from more intact families and had more $$ and subsequently more parental supervision, leading to less addiction and street crime...

[KINGTONY]

gimps

[darkthrone]

Hell no. Thankfully they developed a vaccine for that shit.

[KINGTONY]

that vaccine is called hey get the fuck out of the spot it saved a whole generation fam

[EdLawndale]

Rollerblading is gangsta, where tf yall been?

[DarthDingusMaximus]

Fuckin' fruitbooters.

[Style Police]

Reparations for Rollerbladers!

[joe momma]

You could make the argument that rollerblading is more core than skating. We got adopted by the mainstream and they got left in the dust. Where do you even buy those things? There's no industry or validation from popular culture. Anyone doing that shit and being completely disrespected for the last 25 years really doesn't give a fuck what we think.

[EastKremer]

Nein

[KINGTONY]

You could make the argument that rollerblading is more core than skating. We got adopted by the mainstream and they got left in the dust. Where do you even buy those things? There's no industry or validation from popular culture. Anyone doing that shit and being completely disrespected for the last 25 years really doesn't give a fuck what we think.

true but they still look fuckin stupid

Fuck UWK. Donut operater seems like a good guy.