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"They" were there (where they lived) and I just related their direct experience as related to me. This is an serious question I have for someone who was part of
by wrp 4y ago
"They" were there (where they lived) and I just related their direct experience as related to me. This is an serious question I have for someone who was part of the movement, do you genuinely feel no empathy for the people who felt trapped in their homes and were buying firearms to protect themselves from events your group incited?
- tadfisher 4y agoDo they live downtown next to the north Park Blocks? Because the area in question was four blocks centered on the Federal building and the county courthouse. Portland is a large city, and if you didn't pass by those blocks in question, you wouldn't have seen anything out of the ordinary. It was pretty surreal going there for the first time, because it was actually hard to find the protest without knowing where the Mark O. Hatfield building is located. I'm not minimizing the fear your relatives experienced. I do believe that the protest activity was selectively portrayed by the media deliberately to induce that fear, and to minimize the efforts of multiple community organizations working tirelessly to keep the protest civil, peaceful, and focused on communicating our desire for systemic reform. It's tragic and disgusting that the main legacy of that effort is the BLM/Antifa Boogeyman.