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The most glaring/disgusting racism in the PNW(specifically WA because I don't really have experience in other PNW states) exists as economic divides that stands out mostly when you look at where people live. When I was working in Seattle, I worked in an office that was almost entirely white. I was one of two latino dudes. They hired a gay black dude once, he was there maybe a week. The office was pretty much only comfortable for the straight white male stereotype. That Seattle is any better in terms of racial diversity and acceptance is one of those myths.
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Some fun Portland facts, a must read for anyone who's only lived here for 3 years or less! We were a town who's entire industry revolved around sailors which meant prostitutes, booze, violence, drugs, and slavery. Things don't get tremendously better from this point forward. Oregon hated black people and even after they were let into the state they were legally barred from living in Portland. We threw them out to live in their very seperate-but-terrible city of Vanport, which eventually grew to be the second largest city in the state. They even had public transit lines so they could come serve us as cheap labor! Vanport was built right on the river in temporary buildings, and was utterly destroyed in a flood. Only 15 people were killed, a miracle right! Wrong, because since the city of Portland had built the levy that was supposed to protect the town, we were publicly embarrassed, so we only counted how many white people were killed. How many blacks died? Who knows! The public shaming that followed forced us to loosen our segregated housing laws, so we basically forced all the black people into a new neighborhood that they largely built themselves on the banks of the Willamette. This neighborhood was later bulldozed so we could move the freeway across the river from downtown, once more uprooting Portland's black community. We used to have an entire section of the city where Japanese Americans settled, it was there for a long time. Then WW2 happened and we were so stoked to oppress these minorities that we actually started deporting our Japanese people a full week early from the required date. Then we ran full page spreads that proclaimed PORTLAND OREGON: AMERICA'S FIRST JAP FREE CITY! All the confiscated buildings we stole from those filthy japs eventually went to poo poo because nobody wanted to own or live in them (mostly due to the dubious legality of the situation) so the whole neighborhood nosedived, eventually becoming the Old Town we actively avoid today! Then we renamed Old Town to Chinatown because Chinatowns were super chic at the time and we couldn't very well name it Japantown because then everyone would know of all the embarrassing racist poo poo we did and we can't have that because we're quite progressive you see. Also you're not allowed to have rap concerts and our cops shot/tazed/beat so many mentally ill people that the state literally had to sue them to get them to stop they didn't stop though So with all this great history it's just super that everyone loves Portlandia, haha put a bird on it
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 13:44 |
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foobardog posted:Being black in Seattle in the midst of all the TechBros This has been the case in Seattle long before tech bros showed up. See: Dan Savage and his racism that is accepted as progressive.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 17:08 |
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Some fun Portland facts, a must read for anyone who's only lived here for 3 years or less! Good christ. This is amazing. Any sources for this crap? I wanna read more about how awful we were to black people.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 17:39 |
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Seattle's history is pretty much the same
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 18:04 |
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:Good christ. This is amazing. Any sources for this crap? I wanna read more about how awful we were to black people. *Are
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 18:11 |
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:Good christ. This is amazing. Any sources for this crap? I wanna read more about how awful we were to black people. Smithsonian did an ok write-up a bit back. It's not perfect but it does have lots of pictures of our own Lil Katrina. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/vanport-oregon-how-countrys-largest-housing-project-vanished-day-180954040/
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:22 |
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:Good christ. This is amazing. Any sources for this crap? I wanna read more about how awful we were to black people. Read this too: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/421-my-people-are-rising Seattle had a very active Black Panther party. Then get depressed when you see the gentrification happening in the Central District. You'll understand how a super market can be an important part of a community: http://kuow.org/post/red-apple-heart-black-seattle-likely-close-making-way-vulcan The Black Panthers led a boycott against Safeway in the CD that kept the store out of the area for 30 years.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:30 |
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DevNull posted:Read this too: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/421-my-people-are-rising Put a fuckin bird on that
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:36 |
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DevNull posted:This has been the case in Seattle long before tech bros showed up. See: Dan Savage and his racism that is accepted as progressive. Dan Savage is proof that all you need to be labeled progressive is to think that gay people are human.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:43 |
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And here's a pretty good source for our treatment of the Japanese (rip Japantown, you were too cool and unique to survive here) https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/japanese_americans_in_oregon_immigrants_from_the_west/#.WHUqR3qIbqA For example, remember when the Portland Expo Center was a horrific concentration camp? quote:Portland Assembly Center
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:45 |
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DevNull posted:This has been the case in Seattle long before tech bros showed up. See: Dan Savage and his racism that is accepted as progressive. I read the Stranger pretty frequently, and maybe it's just my white privilege, but what are some examples of him being racist? I can't find any. I remember he got in trouble a lot because he used some anti-trans language at one point, but he's apologized and owned up to it.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:54 |
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seiferguy posted:I read the Stranger pretty frequently, and maybe it's just my white privilege, but what are some examples of him being racist? I can't find any. I remember he got in trouble a lot because he used some anti-trans language at one point, but he's apologized and owned up to it.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 19:56 |
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Oof, that's bad. Though it did appear he went on Colbert and tried to correct the record and blame old people for prop 8 instead.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 20:25 |
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Lazy_Liberal posted:*Are Can't be racist when there aren't any black people around, right?!??
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 20:25 |
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I live in a Condo on the East Side of Seattle, and this was recently came up last friday night on the only unit with a wheelchair bound woman in it.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 20:35 |
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seiferguy posted:Oof, that's bad. Though it did appear he went on Colbert and tried to correct the record and blame old people for prop 8 instead. Dan Savage doesn't give a gently caress about anyone who isn't a trim young white gay man.
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# ? Jan 10, 2017 21:40 |
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Four people have died of exposure in Portland this year.
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# ? Jan 11, 2017 03:33 |
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got any sevens posted:Seattle's history is pretty much the same Tacoma as well. The railroads were all built by Chinese labor, but no one really wanted them around after they were done. Sometime in the 1880s I think the entire Chinese population of the city was literally matched out of town and their homes burned down. To this day the Chinese population in the city is negligible.
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# ? Jan 11, 2017 05:32 |
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In Seattle's Mohai there is a canning machine called the Iron Chink. Also in regards to ^ above this happened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_riot_of_1886 although I think you are referencing the much less documented event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_riot_of_1885 Also in a vague attempt to lighten awful history, just like now Californian Transplants ruin everything. quote:embers of the Knights of Labor were leaders of the organized movement against Chinese workers in Seattle.[1][6] The Knights in Washington Territory were only loosely affiliated with the national organization. The chapter's organizer was Daniel Cronin, a 38-year-old carpenter who came to the Puget Sound area via California during the summer of 1885. Under Cronin's leadership, the Washington Knights of Labor went from a loose-knit band of workers to an organized and militant "brotherhood".[1] In September 1885, Cronin warned Seattle's workers that riot and bloodshed would follow during the winter if the Chinese were not removed. It was Cronin and the leadership of the Knights of Labor who planned for the systematic expulsion of Seattle's Chinese; the group organized a territorial anti-Chinese congress and declared that all Chinese must leave Seattle by November 1, 1885.[1] After forming local coordinating committees, Cronin stepped away from his post as Knights leader and left the Chinese expulsion, largely, to other individuals Jack2142 fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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The Vinja Ninja posted:I live in a Condo on the East Side of Seattle, and this was recently came up last friday night on the only unit with a wheelchair bound woman in it.
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# ? Jan 11, 2017 20:51 |
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The old thread is open again, I guess?
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 00:14 |
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I like this one better, it has less graphs.
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 00:19 |
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New year new thread. gently caress to old threads
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 00:42 |
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anthonypants posted:The old thread is open again, I guess?
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 17:53 |
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I promise to never close this thread in a fit of rage
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 17:57 |
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anthonypants posted:I promise to never close this thread in a fit of rage Your graphs are crap
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 17:57 |
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:Your graphs are crap
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 18:08 |
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I'm convinced.
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 18:10 |
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why would i care about the Gap when LLBean has a presidential endorsement? sheesh
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# ? Jan 12, 2017 19:53 |
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Here's a Slate article about Oregon's institutionalized racism, but this time with our criminal justice system: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/01/oregon_has_one_of_the_worst_criminal_justice_systems_in_the_u_s.html
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# ? Jan 13, 2017 21:20 |
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RE: Japanese internment camps: Seattle had one called Camp Harmony aka the Puyallup fair grounds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Harmony
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# ? Jan 14, 2017 00:06 |
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No graphs, no problem. Who's ready to bust some heads on J20?
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# ? Jan 14, 2017 12:21 |
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...I know I'm late to PDXDonutChat but I'm just gonna mention that coco donuts are goddamn delicious. racism is still real bad.
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# ? Jan 14, 2017 19:25 |
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Someone firebombed a mosque in Bellevue this morning https://www.launchgood.com/project/rebuilding_of_islamic_center_of_eastside_washington/
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# ? Jan 14, 2017 23:26 |
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They have a suspect in custody. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/bellevue-mosque-damaged-in-suspected-arson-fire/
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# ? Jan 14, 2017 23:36 |
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The Portland Mercury interviewed a protest group and a counter-protest group who have plans for the inauguration downtown http://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2017/01/18/18802072/as-donald-trump-becomes-president-portlands-streets-will-be-chaotic Absent from this article is any mention of Michael Strickland, the guy who pointed a gun at a crowd of protesters in downtown Portland like six months ago.
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# ? Jan 18, 2017 18:51 |
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The Million Women March protest seems to be primarily by and for white women, and leftists are desperately trying to drag liberals, kicking and screaming, into any mild understanding of intersectionality http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2017...ump-supporters/ Also, lol glowing-fish posted:I mean, if this thread was meant to prove that so-called Midwesterners were parochial, ignorant, small minded, petty people who are trapped in a little world of their own creation, it has succeeded.
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# ? Jan 19, 2017 20:55 |
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Hillary supporters still are in denial about why she lost and they think a little rally will do anything, lmao
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# ? May 13, 2024 11:07 |
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Dudes been on three continents and still mostly lives on the Internet.
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