Posted on 09/05/2021 12:32:08 PM PDT by Libloather
The Aug. 22 clash between far-right groups and counter-protesters in Portland was the latest in a series of violent confrontations that have rocked the city over the last year.
While last month's incident was not as destructive as the riots that took place last summer, it highlights how the city, with its reputation as a liberal bastion amid the state's early history of white supremacy, has become a proxy in the culture wars, researchers said.
City officials said in an October 2020 statement that in recent months, alt-right groups amassed in Portland in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and measures intended to combat COVID-19.
"Portland’s leadership in racial justice reform and community demands for change have made the city a target for right-wing politicians and white supremacist groups, who use Portland as a rhetorical tool for division," the statement said.
Portland Police instead say that instead of a rise in right-wing extremism, there has been an increase in violent disputes that take place in public.
Randy Blazak, the chair of the Oregon Coalition Against Hate Crimes, a non-profit that works with community groups and local, state, and federal governmental agencies to combat hate groups and their activities, told ABC News that the recent conflicts have been decades in the making as groups like the Proud Boys, which were at the Aug. 22 incident, are using their feuds with the far left to fuel their cause around the country.
"Portland being the largest metropolis in the Northwest, is where these ideologies collide," he told ABC News.
MORE: After a year of protests, Portland residents have waning patience for antifa Blazak and other experts who have researched far-right activity noted this problem has been decades in the making due to the growing presence of the far-right groups and changing demographics...
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The antifa fascists try to set fire to the cops - and the far-right is the problem.
Why liberal Portland has become a focal point for the far right
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Notice the media never uses the term “Far Left”.
These aholes are so full of sh*t. Always the “far right”. They are obsessed. SPLC is just a typical commie front group.
I feel so fortunate that my Passport expired so I can’t be dragged into the foreign land of Portlandia.
Their problem is they are a leftist hive of scum and villainy.
A shame because Oregon isn’t.
Well the splc and stuff.
The Southerner Center they are quote in a full on lying Marist propagandas outfit. They are as credible a source as the KKK.
The “Far Right” is there in reaction to the Democrat’s Party storm troopers claiming to be “Antifa” being there.
The root of the problem is Antifa and the local politicians who are actively protecting them from facing any legal consequences for their actions.
Total crap. More garbage from the left wing. A focal point for the far right? Seriously? Speaking on behalf of right wingers; we could not give a care what happens to Portland. Let the antifa goons and the liberal Democrats in charge continue to drive that city into a Third World hell hole.
We could not care less.
Yeah. They use the term “far-right” here, when it would be more correct to simply say “Normal Americans.”
Trump should have retaken the city by force, instead of just sitting back and blaming the Democrats.
Portland has suspended the rule of law to let the far left rule its streets for several years. When anyone finally has the courage to stand up to them, it’s the “Far Right” targeting Portland. The only argument these people have is with reality itself. The author of the article is a propagandist, not a reporter.
Were they also studying why Portland became such a focal point for Antifa?
It's strange isn't it? "Anti-fascists" burning down one of the most progressive cities in the country? "Anti-racists" flocking to one of the Whitest cities in the country?
They are obsessed. Obsessed with raing money and living large of the proceeds. Marxist Morris Dees and his buddy conceived of SPLC as a way to scam money.
Partisan Media Shill alert.
"raing" = 'raising'.
Porland is a smoldering dystopian crater, all the courtesy of your local BLM/ANTIFA cadre. The only kind of narrative you will ever hear from Oregon leftists are fairy tails.
The Left would be better off, if the rest of America forgot about their poster city, the most graphic and blatant social disaster in recent history, that has been emblematic of Democrat rule. “The adults are back?” Not in this universe.
If you’re hunting leftists, go to their stomping grounds. Duh.
“”Portland’s leadership in racial justice reform and community demands for change...”
No elaboration from ABC on how that has been a disaster at every turn, wrecking communities. Not one word.
Lying wench spews flatulent propaganda,
when in reality, slimeball punk antifa
always starts the violence.
When you’re so far to the Left that nothing of the old extreme Left is extreme to you any more then everything will look far right to you.
Leftwingers have their heads shoved up their butts when it comes to understanding that they are the extremists, that they are the nutburgers, that they are in too many cases functionally insane for having believed so many stupid and insane things.
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