It’s been up on TheRoot for awhile...enjoy.

You’re comparing ringo and oranges. When we’re talking about major US cities Portland has the largest non-hispanic white population of any of the 25 largest cities by quite a bit.

I’m sad that you need to explain these things.

It’s still a very white city with a long history of very direct structural racism? Glad it’s getting a little less white though!

Wow, a whole 25% of the city is non-white!? That’s... still really white. And are most of the non-white people pushed into specific areas of town?

I visited some friends in Portland a few years ago. At the time, I was living in a city that didn’t have a white majority. When they asked me my impressions of the city, the first thing that popped out was “Geez, it’s really white.” they sputtered something about how “I guess we just don’t see color” and I was like…

I think the vast majority of Portland considers itself to be progressive, accepting and far from racist, of course. But it’s exceptionally easy to take that stance when you’re surrounded by people that look and think just like you do.

As a Portlander I can tell you that even though the attacker was Black, this statement still holds true. Very true. Lots of “unaware racists” in this town.

Yep. I’d say that was the most interesting thing I took away from the short time I lived in Portland. I think it was actually illegal for blacks to enter the state/territory of Oregon as a whole. As the biggest/most populous city in the territory Portland was at the center of the institutionalized racism. As…

No, the answer is no. It does not make her racist for assuming that. Go back to Stormfront hon.

Thank you, yes. For heavens sake. It was like Joan read another person’s criticism and based this post on that rather than watching the show herself.

Her death was a deliberate plot device, concocted by a team of writers, to achieve this.

Henry Cavill is 36, not almost 40 and Jodhi May is 44, not 31. The only woman under the age of 23 is Freya Allan, and she’s playing a child.

Forgive me if i have the details wrong but i believe in the source material Renfri is far more mercenary and intends to lure the wizard out by slaughtering the towns folk and Geralt is more or less forced into butchering Renfri’s gang to save the people (who turn on him as all they see are the corpses he left by preemp…

Jezebel should hire you to be a guest writer, this is really good.

Geralt takes it upon himself to protect the wizard and murder Renfri and her fellow brigands.

I was more mad about the dead animals, mostly because I think you’ve got the storytelling purposes twisted.

Gah. The Madame Tussauds docent needs to reposition them so they’re all looking the same way. Sloppy staging! Sad!

Madame Tussauds or Mara Lago? You decide.  Feel sorry for the kid though

You're a brave brave soul.