Posted on 07/26/2017 7:33:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Earlier this week, PBS published a piece about three conservative women in the city of Portland. It’s an unusual perspective in a city that is overwhelmingly progressive. As you would expect, many of the locals aren’t kind to those with a different opinion. Helen Church became more active about her political beliefs after her son’s middle-school teacher told him that anyone who supported Trump was a racist:
Up to that point, Church’s activism consisted mostly of writing letters to local and state representatives, and sometimes the White House. But as she watched people on the left continuously denigrate Trump supporters, she also became more active online. She joined dozens of pro-Trump Facebook groups, and as she spoke up, she said, she began getting messages from women who told her they admired her courage…
As Church became more active, she was targeted online by people with opposing views; some even threatened to come to her house and hurt her. The comments unnerved her, but she mostly tried to ignore them. She knew that bullying happened on both the right and left.
That worked until one day last spring, when she posted a comment on a story online about how the Affordable Care Act had hurt people she knew. After she posted it, she recalled, she got a private message from someone calling her a racist and saying it was clear she wanted children to die.
Church, who also was criticized by someone on the right for not being patriotic enough, considered killing herself and might have if her husband had not intervened. Another woman featured in the story is Kathryn Townsend who lives in Washington state. She became a frequent attendee at conservative rallies after witnessing members of Antifa shouting at a Gold Star mother, i.e. someone whose child had died while serving in the armed forces. Eventually, she lost her job after Antifa posted information about her online:
Rose City Antifa listed Townsend as a person to watch in what the group called the area’s “racist rage revival club.” The listing included her photo and a warning that Townsend, who lived in Gig Harbor, Washington, a few hours from Portland, but visited regularly for rallies, was known for traveling “across state lines.”…
A few weeks later, as Rose City Antifa encouraged its followers to contact the employers of the pro-Trump rally-goers, to try to get them fired, Townsend’s employer received an anonymous message. The message asked if the company was aware a violent right-wing extremist worked there. Being listed and targeted at work scared Townsend, who offered to resign her position. Her manager accepted.
The last person featured in the story is Athena Brown a transgender woman who gradually got tired of the political correctness she experienced on the left and became a Trump supporter. But as she became more vocal about her views, she lost friends in droves:
In mid-2016, Brown decided to see if there were any Republicans in Portland with whom she could connect. She went to a Multnomah County Republican street fair, where she met a group of women who were immediately receptive. (The county includes the city of Portland and some surrounding suburbs.) “There was plenty of warmth and acceptance,” she said, more than she’d ever felt on the left. “I’m a trans lesbian atheist, and they are conservative Christian. But not one single time has my gender come up, unless I’ve brought it up.”
When Brown came out as transgender in 2013, only two friends stopped speaking to her. When she came out as Republican, soon after her trip to the street fair, she remembered being blocked by roughly 100 people on Facebook, mostly from the LGBTQ community, she said.
Portland is one of the most progressive cities in the country with one of the most active and most violent Antifa movements. It is also intolerant of people with a different opinion. That’s not a problem limited to the left of course, but it is one the left often pretends is limited to the right. In other words, the left’s self-image as tolerant and diverse doesn’t seem to hold up well in ultra-progressive Portland.
I would rather use a Leftist as target practice, then befriend one.
“I would rather use a Leftist as target practice, then befriend one.”
Amen bro’. Fight fire with fire. NEVER back down.
One of these women considered committing suicide because of these leftists...and she has a husband and son ???
Start putting Trump stickers on liberals' cars, especially expensive ones.
Start putting Trump stickers on liberals' cars, especially expensive ones.
Last time I was driving through Portland I got stuck in their awful rush hour traffic trying to get to Washington. So I’m creeping along at about 2 miles per hour and I look at an freeway overpass and some soy fed 100 pound weakling is waving a Resist banner at all the traffic. Spontaneously both I and the guy in front of me roll down our windows and flip the little tranny in training the finger. He sees both us and kind of freezes up. I had worried about him tossing something, but seeing his reaction he was an utter coward who couldn’t even bring himself to do that.
I get tired of the obligatory mantra that says that violence and extremism exists on both the left and right. This has become almost like the fine print legal disclaimer at the bottom of a medication label. The only problem is, it’s not true. Even in this story of all the harassment she gets from the left, she feels obligated to say that she knows bullying happens on both the left and right. There is absolutely no comparison. The left is the most belligerently intolerant bunch of people I have ever seen. I don’t waste my time giving even 1/10 of a second of lip service to the “both sides” disclaimer. And I refuse to back down for the sake of “getting along” if someone else chooses to stupidly make the claim in conversation.
I always thought Vancouver would be a perfect place to live for tax purposes. Work there, no state income tax, and shop in Portland, no sales tax.
The probability that Civil War 2.0 will erupt is growing stronger.
Lol!
Just put one over every COEXIST sticker in the Whole Foods parking lot. These libs are so crazy, they'd probably deface their own car before they realized it was theirs.
Don’t bother. Oregon taxes Washington residents who work in Oregon.
“The probability that Civil War 2.0 will erupt is growing stronger.”
The problem with this is that they’ll eat their own if it were to go hot. It would likely start in cities. Rioting will break out and they’ll start to kill one another stealing stuff. Any of the liberal hoards approaching rural or, hell, even most suburbs will be put down at first sight.
I’m not going to sit here and fool myself that hundreds of thousands of good people would die in such a scenario ... But I can’t see liberals being *that* stupid. Once they’re unmasked and don’t have media optics that make these sick freaks look normal, they’re done for ... They have to know that.
If you are in a deep blue state, you best keep your Trump support to yourself. It could cost you r job, livelyhood....even your life. Libersls control everything.
Ed
Re “Portland is one of the most progressive cities..”
No. It is one of the most “Marxist” cities in America and is a leading contender for “The Most Hateful City of 2017”.
Nuke it from orbit just to be sure that the contagion of hate doesn’t spread any further.
Re “Portland is one of the most progressive cities..”
No. It is one of the most “Marxist” cities in America and is a leading contender for “The Most Hateful City of 2017”.
Nuke it from orbit just to be sure that the contagion of hate doesn’t spread any further.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.