Oh well, the Eastside or South King County are terrible. Seattlities are at least a little better.

I’ve known various people who have worked for the parks before or done contracts there. Most of the actors/actresses in the suits or costumes are young kids, 18-22 or so, and the tunnels and back rooms of the park provide plenty of privacy. It’s pretty well-known by anyone who has worked there that pretty much every…

1993, actually. And it was created then in response to the closing of an older feminist bookstore. (Though I’m guessing there’s no backstory that would actually convince you their point is legitimate.)

But even if they were newer to the neighborhood, it doesn’t mean that they were referring specifically to their own…

Under the Oregon constitution, it was illegal for POC to live in the state until the state was forced to change its constitution in 1929. The Chinese settlements in eastern Oregon were burned down in the latter 19th C once the rails were finished. It is an unacknowledged fact that this state was settled by the whites…

It actually is entirely a matter of who you know, where you live and what circles you mix in. And it *is* malicious and unhealthy. Portland is one of the most segregated cities in the US. Just because you don’t see the PoC does not mean they aren’t there.

I’ve had the same conversation with people about Boston. They say they lived there for four years (it’s always four years) and ‘never’ saw on black person. That’s on you, bro.

When the joke in the sketch is how “men in dresses” are absurd and ugly, it *is* offensive to trans women. Many of them have spoken out about this.

I have lived in portland and in several other places. There are plenty of PoC in portland, but it is also one of the most segregated cities in America...hence my point...if you don’t see any black people in portland that’s on you for staying in the lily-white bubble of trendy areas.

Not just a progressive small business, but a community center for women, POC, and the LGBTQ community. I am not usually all “SJW” on Jezebel, but mocking was not the right angle for this story.

Agreed. If people actually READ the statement the bookstore put out, it’s totally fucking reasonable and something I’d think most people here would agree with. Jez cherry-picked some hot takes without context and put a shitty mocking tang on the whole thing (and most of the comments reflect that attitude). Like, the…

Edward James Olmos is an absolute delight. He came to West Chester University once to lecture on diversity and I remember him starting it in Spanish to scattered laughter and continued:

It’s in the article above.

well, i just didnt know fred wasnt white. i wasnt leaving anyone out on purpose. he is white passing and ive never done any research on him. my bad

Have you been to far NE Portland? and anywhere past 122nd? Just being in the cool hip part of portland doesn’t make POC visible because they cannot afford anything there.The Social Justice non-profit I worked for had to literally testify at Trimet hearing to lower bus prices so people (misltynPOC) from NE Portland and…

Every once in a while my parents run into other older white people that like to confide in them how x place is getting too ‘ethnic’ and they’re planning on moving somewhere more homogenious. I really, really wish they’d start moving to Portland and get into fights with the granola-types out there.

Well if you’d come here 15-20 years ago and were in the neighborhood where this bookstore is located you would have seen quite a few more. Alas, they have mostly been priced out to the suburbs now.

Ok, but Portlandia is transmisogynistic, 100% white, glorifies the gentrification problem in Portland, and is generally very antagonistic of queer and feminist issues-- and not even for the sake of humor, the show has been floating on the same jokes since episode 1. Also, the Willamette Week is a rape apologist paper…

I think they were upset tha the BLM sign was removed so it wouldn’t be seen on the show. They also state BLM Portland also meets there regularly, and are also reminding people of the historic racism of the Oregon and Portland in particular. Oregon was formed to be a “white utopia”

Fred Armisen is a misognystic asshole who I wish would go away forever. And the fact that he is so closely associated with my once fine city is a thorn in my side.