To the people creeping onto my posts saying, “Everyone *I* know in Portland says this is all overblown, damage is to a few square blocks”: I don’t believe you. The people you know may *like* the direction the city is taking, but it is not normal, and it is not a few square blocks
The blocks around the federal building and Justice Center have incurred the most damage. This will never change. The movement, such as it is, needs enemies, needs rage calories, and the police, whether good or ill, will perennially supply these.
Every body needs fuel, needs calories, so you sup at Justice Center, at the federal building, for variety, ICE headquarters, the police station on MLK, and if the stores surrounding that last need to go out of business, maybe the Boys and Girls Club, well, sorry; I was hungry
More calories are needed. Who's next is easy: anyone in power. The mayor, the governor, your landlord, those people that have stores in the Pearl, along Hawthorne, on N. Denver. How dare they have businesses when there's injustice in the world? Fuck you and your fucking windows!
None of this happened overnight; yes, Portland's leadership helped to foment it, but the anger, as I wrote for @reason, had for a decade been "gathering momentum, was becoming an identity in itself." reason.com/2021/03/22/the…
To those who keep saying, nothing to see here: I don't think the people perpetrating the violence every night would appreciate that. Sure, they don't necessarily want to be IDed, but they *want* to be recognized, of course they do. See them, then we'll talk/end
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