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As a brown man in Portland, I've never experienced these supposed neo Nazis. I have experienced being harassed by homeless African American men over being a non

• klodolph 5y ago
  How long have you lived in Portland? The neo-nazis keep changing. If you lived in Portland in the 1990s you might have seen the Volksfront. If you go back another decade to the 1980s, you'd see skinheads, or read about them in the news. If you went to punk shows in Portland in the 1980s, you'd definitely know about neo-nazis. For some reason, this was poorly documented, and mostly forgotten. Neo-nazis don't live in Portland, for the most part, these days. They come in to stage protests. The symbology changes. You won't see many swastikas. Instead, there's a symbol of interlocking triangles, there's a couple norse runes, etc. There's usually some kind of plausible deniability that someone is a neo-nazi. It takes some level of research to learn how neo-nazis recognize each other, and it can sometimes be hard to tell if someone is wearing a symbol because they bought it unaware from a neo-nazi and thought it looked cool, or if they're wearing a symbol because they're a neo-nazi. I'm not denying your experience of living in Portland, but neither should you deny me my experience of living in Portland.