OPB keeps sending people in my neighborhood to get people to give them money. The last time they did it wasn't just one person but two. When I told them I was not interested, they asked me why and I told them that their reporting was too regressive left. They looked surprised, as if no one had ever told them their reporting was too biased. I had no idea that OPB had hired Alex Zielinksi, a rage-filled narcissists who obsesses over her hatred of Andy Ngo and anyone who disagrees with her.
FYI, when someone asks you for a donation for a not-for-profit, they usually keep 70-80% of the money they collect. OPB usually sends single people to my door, but this time it was a pair, which is more typical of Mormon missionaries. I wonder if they are concerned at harm coming to a single person hearing how much they hate OPB.
Zielinski and VanderHart were hired shortly after the 2020 riots if I recall correctly. I think OPB wanted reporters who could get access to those political communities. Unfortunately, they didn't consider/care that activist reporters rarely believe objectivity should be the elusive goal. "It's all propaganda, man."
It’s concerning that a subset of the Portland political left tacitly or explicitly endorse violence as a legitimate means of pursuing their agenda. We have seen this in our neighborhood.
I believe it is the "speech is violence" crowd. They believe that it is physically harmful to express opinions they do not like, therefor they have a right to hit you to stop you from expressing your opinion, or facts they do not like. This openly anti-scientific idea comes from Derald Wing Sue, a professor at Columbia's School of Education. He claimed that when on a plane his interactions with a white flight attendant caused his blood pressure to go up, therefor her speech was a violence against him. He made up a story that she was racist against him as an Asian man, causing him to be angry at her, and that harmed his health. Sue grew up in a wealthy section of Portland. "Speech is violence" is just another example of a luxury belief system that causes more harm the good.
This is horrifying. I don't disagree that speech, especially hate speech, can be a form of violence, but to use that to justify actual physical violence is just absurd
Progressives are basically children of the generations that never really bothered (or were forced) to grow up. Progeny of unleashed feminism=divorce=daycare.
They started life in clusters of mostly-ignored kids, went to Portland's schools of sloppy indoctrination, had their civil rights turned off by a phony epidemic, can only aspire to shitty jobs, will do anything for power but don't know what to do with it if they ever luck into it--usually at such a low level that they can only boss around mopes such as "the houseless."
They get suck jobs and then don't show up; live too long with whichever parent was unlucky enough to get custody (interesting word, that); live in video-world where nothing can be assumed to be true; and deep down know they're dumb as stumps. They think Stabtown and its extortionate rents are cool; they can't afford a Tesla; have big, muscular hunting dogs crammed into their "loft" apartments; don't think but "feel;" have "lived experience" that might get them a low-level job at a nonprofit.
They're lost, have no magic map, wouldn't know how to read it if they did.
OPB keeps sending people in my neighborhood to get people to give them money. The last time they did it wasn't just one person but two. When I told them I was not interested, they asked me why and I told them that their reporting was too regressive left. They looked surprised, as if no one had ever told them their reporting was too biased. I had no idea that OPB had hired Alex Zielinksi, a rage-filled narcissists who obsesses over her hatred of Andy Ngo and anyone who disagrees with her.
FYI, when someone asks you for a donation for a not-for-profit, they usually keep 70-80% of the money they collect. OPB usually sends single people to my door, but this time it was a pair, which is more typical of Mormon missionaries. I wonder if they are concerned at harm coming to a single person hearing how much they hate OPB.
Zielinski and VanderHart were hired shortly after the 2020 riots if I recall correctly. I think OPB wanted reporters who could get access to those political communities. Unfortunately, they didn't consider/care that activist reporters rarely believe objectivity should be the elusive goal. "It's all propaganda, man."
It’s concerning that a subset of the Portland political left tacitly or explicitly endorse violence as a legitimate means of pursuing their agenda. We have seen this in our neighborhood.
I believe it is the "speech is violence" crowd. They believe that it is physically harmful to express opinions they do not like, therefor they have a right to hit you to stop you from expressing your opinion, or facts they do not like. This openly anti-scientific idea comes from Derald Wing Sue, a professor at Columbia's School of Education. He claimed that when on a plane his interactions with a white flight attendant caused his blood pressure to go up, therefor her speech was a violence against him. He made up a story that she was racist against him as an Asian man, causing him to be angry at her, and that harmed his health. Sue grew up in a wealthy section of Portland. "Speech is violence" is just another example of a luxury belief system that causes more harm the good.
This is horrifying. I don't disagree that speech, especially hate speech, can be a form of violence, but to use that to justify actual physical violence is just absurd
Progressives are basically children of the generations that never really bothered (or were forced) to grow up. Progeny of unleashed feminism=divorce=daycare.
They started life in clusters of mostly-ignored kids, went to Portland's schools of sloppy indoctrination, had their civil rights turned off by a phony epidemic, can only aspire to shitty jobs, will do anything for power but don't know what to do with it if they ever luck into it--usually at such a low level that they can only boss around mopes such as "the houseless."
They get suck jobs and then don't show up; live too long with whichever parent was unlucky enough to get custody (interesting word, that); live in video-world where nothing can be assumed to be true; and deep down know they're dumb as stumps. They think Stabtown and its extortionate rents are cool; they can't afford a Tesla; have big, muscular hunting dogs crammed into their "loft" apartments; don't think but "feel;" have "lived experience" that might get them a low-level job at a nonprofit.
They're lost, have no magic map, wouldn't know how to read it if they did.