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Mar. 28th, 2017 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fredxmertzbig surprise, our new golfer-in-chief has EMBOLDENED all kinds of white supremecists and hate mongers.
Exxxx, the owner of one of my favorite bars, Oxx Nxxx'x, has stuck to her guns and kept up all the ANTIFA stickers on the exterior of the building, and she's been drawn into online flame wars and zero star rating wars with racists and white nationalists, in this the mighty white state of Oregon.
Oregon has a long illustrious history of racism. black exclusion and 'sundown laws' (some of which were ont he books until the 1980's, if I'm not mistaken) and the Eugene/Springfield lacks the kind of diversity I grew up with in Southern California.
Facebook has blown up with right wing nationalist groups, as well as their detractors and anti fascist groups, some of which are just as angry and/or violent. So there's all this anger out there, most of it very misplaced, either by ignorance or by intolerance, on both sides.
No, this is not the "front" of this battle, as far as our nation is concerned, but the desire to punch nazis and voice opposition to hate is strong. But like it or not, we ('white' residents) have all somehow profited, to whatever degree, by the lack of racial diversity, sure we have poverty nearby, but our state welfare systems are not taxed beyond their limiits, as in states where instituional racism was more focused against minorities.
Oregon is now known as a liberal, blue state, we have some really great representatives like Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkekley, and Pete DeFazio. But somehow, we have to own up to the ways in which we've benefitted by exclusion and institutional racism.
and punch nazis. actually, elbow them in the nose.
The univeristy of Oregon has recently re-named some of its buildings, ( the re-naming was completed in September 2016) as they had been named after U of O alumni who were Klansmen (Frederic Dunn, and Matthew Deady)
someday, .........we'll look back and laugh?
punk in drublic
Date: 2017-05-06 12:26 am (UTC)I bought it because I had a crush on a guy-and was told nofx was one of his favorite bands. as well as the sex pistols, rancid, and a few others. we were 15.
I ended up enjoying the music, and still like some of it to this day.
the guy I had a crush on never liked me back.
now he's a lady-laura jane grace of against me!
how's that for an introduction? :P
Re: punk in drublic
Date: 2017-05-16 05:37 pm (UTC)I understand, you're on a boat, and they want everyone to be kind of complacent but shoot, I wouldn't liked to hear Fat Mike unload on Trump.
My son was born in 1995!
AGAINST ME rocks.
Re: punk in drublic
Date: 2017-05-16 05:49 pm (UTC)my son was born in 2001. haha
yeah, against me is cool. I don't listen to them as much. by '99 I got into emo when it became popular, & that's still what I go back to when I feel nostalgic.
Re: punk in drublic
Date: 2017-06-17 02:08 am (UTC)other music definitely seems to have a 'tone' from which decade. what we used to call emocore or just emo back then, (early 90's) is pretty different than where it went
.... these kids today, don't get me started!