Posted on 03/03/2026 6:30:59 PM PST by algore
A Portland council meeting was shocked into silence after a member asked the first Latino councilman to repeat what he said in English, despite him speaking the language perfectly.
Councilor Juan Carlos González had responded to a question posed by fellow member Mary Nolan about an agenda item dealing with the city's Supportive Housing Services The Oregonian first reported.
Nolan, who goes by they/them pronouns, had asked the bill's sponsors, which includes González, to define what they meant by regionalism in the policy.
'My concern and worry is that in the definition of regionalism, you're moving forward, or that you had - that we talked about - includes decimating funding to Washington and Clackamas County,' he responded in part, while speaking perfect English.
'There's language that is kind of very needs-based and that to me is like sending signals to some really strong shifts in the framework of SHS entirely.'
Nolan responded by asking: 'Councilor, can you say that in English? I don't understand what you just said.'
The comment caused the entire board to pause in shock, with Councilman Ashton Simpson putting his head in his hands.
González sat in silence for a moment before responding: 'Um, okay. Let me try to repeat that in English, which is the language I was speaking.'
Two days later, Nolan took it upon herself to apologize to González in front of the entire council, but first in Spanish, then in English.
'On reflection, I realized one of my questions to you on Tuesday [February 24] during our discussion of the RPOC [Regional Policy and Oversight Committee] disrespected you, as well as people in our audience,' she said on February 26.
They/Them Nolan promised to give 'more thought and sensitivity' to her future comments.
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Dumbasses in portland and dm.
The comment is characteristic slang for “layman’s terms.”
...and I’m not sure that ‘layman’ would have gone over any differently. /s
They/them probably wanted a more inclusive DIE specific fag speech.
Ditto - Reminds me when I was on contract to a three letter Government agency, and we were told not to use the phrase, ‘rule of thumb’
I doubt that the council member “spoke the language perfectly”!
EXACTLY SO. It has nothing to do with English vs. Spanish or any other language, per se.
It was "Please say that in terms that a normal lay person can understand."
Geez. and for that he/she/they apologized??? WTF
They/them spoke woke gobbledygook in English.
Stupid Oregon.
A straight white male would have been run out of town.
Exactly. It’s the same as “Stop speaking bureaucratic gobbledegook. Explain it.”
Thin-skinned wokesters.
They/them Portland council members are all who/what morons.
Regardless - any day a Democrat commits accidental political suicide, is a good day.
Shows how out of touch they/them/it is. Every word or action which can be linked to some term which reminds the audience of prejudice is deemed racist. These people are obsessive lunatics and should be kept out of society....
Like the old “niagara false” skit...they behave just like that..
It’s Portland. Expect a circus.
I think she meant explain it to me like I’m a 5 year old.
LOL
Words are meant to help aid in clear communication.
I know that is English because I understand the individual words but the way they are arranged has resulted in gobbledygook.
Niagara FALLS...I hate autocorrect....come to think of it autocorrect is like these lunatic racist baiters ....it thinks it knows what the typist meant to write..
Gonzalez was speaking in genuine western gibberish.
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