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Portland Attacks Won't Be Stopped by Smearing Conservatives as White...

• https://www.oathkeepers.org, by David Codrea

"Attacks like Portland's will keep happening unless we all fight white supremacy," lawyer Arjun Singh Sethi writes in The Washington Post. He was referring to accounts of multiple stabbings by a violent racist that left two dead and one injured when they stepped in to intervene against harassment of two teenage girls, one reportedly a Muslim. And, as a wade through his opportunistic screed reveals, he's dancing in the blood to reinforce cherry-picked numbers and advance the meme that "The greatest threat facing our country comes from homegrown white supremacists, not Muslims or refugees."

It happened in "progressive" Portland on a train where knives with blades over 3½ inches are banned (law enforcement exempted, of course), and the stabbing victims appear to have all been white. But if you ignore law being ignored and the reality of who was actually injured, and just let Sethi control the narrative, it feeds the real idea being promulgated — that it's Donald Trump's fault:

"Hundreds of hate groups now champion white supremacy and draw inspiration from President Trump, whose rhetoric and policies have emboldened their nativism and prejudice."


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