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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In the first place, Portland is not liberal; it’s the exact opposite.
Who is that woman? She’s really ugly. No chin.
I think they have bigger problems than “white supremacists” in Portland.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D144-47Wv0Q&t=448s
Why far left Portland has become a focal point for the conservatives?
"Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst with the
Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, who has
been monitoring the far-right activity in Portland, told ABC News
that Oregon has been attractive to white nationalists due to its origin
as a state that excluded Blacks and minorities."
The proficient propagandist, cassie miller.
The feds Joint Terrorism Task Force is operational with a major intelligence gathering hub in Portland. I see FBI informants in this story that no one is talking about.
Scaring the Left off the streets to get business going and help Mayor Ted Wheeler would seem to be a Biden Administration goal.
“Counter-protesters”, no far left agitators.
What a trash article.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.
A terrible human being.
And such utter nonsense
Gotta love the Gaslighting Media propagandist labels...
“Liberals” = Ultra-Stalinazi criminal terrorist left (Brownshirt/Blackshirt wing of the Derp State)
“Far-right” = Mainstream American patriots
Portland is simply a no-go zone. So no one who is “civilized” should be visiting that city. Just like you wouldn’t be visiting Mogadishu, Somalia.
Basically, we've lost control of one of our American cities. Donald Trump was basically right in "screw it" regarding Portland. Now it's Joe Biden's problem. He won't be doing anything about it because that's his base.
Leftist women make it a point of pride that they do not make any effort to be attractive to men.
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