Racism is not a thing in La Pine because La Pine has has very few minorities. Minorities are a rare thing in La Pine, so rare that they are interesting oddities.
Just so we're all clear about something, you DO realize you're falling for Trumps bullshit about that, right? Liberals/the left (etc) are not "rooting" for a recession as a means to get rid of Trump. He is saying that, as a means to get re-elected, because he knows that his base believes any and everything he says, no matter how much provable bull shit it is and they won't actually do any research to find out if he's telling the truth or not and take, right? It's in the con-mans playbook. They're being conned. They've been conned. He doesn't believe what they believe, nor does he support their beliefs. He just says shit that sound close to what they want to hear, and when someone tells them it's wrong, provides them with some kind of evidence showing he's lying about it (etc), they'll just repeat the phrase "I'll look into it" (or something similar) but actually *won't*, because they are only interested in their side winning.
I wanted to give La Pine the benefit of the doubt, but holy shit, it's 95% white. http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/la-pine-or-population/ (I'm sure this is not true, and there are tons of minorities who live there. It's a government conspiracy)
My parents live in La Pine and don't get me wrong, I love it out there. HOWEVER, my girlfriend took this picture while we were there this summer and wow, I was a bit ashamed.
Is Lake Oswego, Happy Valley, Canby, Bend, Sandy, Wisonville racist? Why would LaPine be anymore or less racist as the cities I mentioned? This whole political correctness, identity politics, is getting crazy. I love all these cities and hope they all prosper and grow.
I don't think it's a case of who is more racist or not, as much as pointing out that maris's claiming (er, I mean his characters claim) like racism no longer exists because in his lilly white city he does not see or experience racism. It's statements like this that prove that maris is just trolling people. I'm not sure why anyone takes anything he says seriously anymore. Unless you're responding/interacting with him because it's entertaining to yourself, I just don't see why anyone should take him seriously. He is just utilizing the fact he lives (or claims to live) in a small town, as if that speaks for the whole. I.e., someone in a homogeneous city/town/area, is going to have a completely different view on things. It'd be like me saying "Rape is totally overblown. It never happens. I've met literally thousands of people, and I've never known a rapist or met someone who raped anyone. Therefore, it doesn't exist". Or it could just be that I don't hang out with people who rape people.* *I do know for a fact I am friends with women who have been raped or sexually assaulted, including my own sister
I wasn't referencing/commenting Maris comments. It just seems like some people in here have criticized a small central Oregon town as being racist primarily. Again, I don't they are more or less than another city. Just my opinion.
just for the record, my half Asian son experienced racism in Wilsonville in elementary school....racists can live anywhere and do...small town Oregon has easily as many racists per population as say small town Iowa...yeah....we can try to sweep it under the rug but it's always been part of the mix ….my experience is it's more prominent amongst the uneducated wherever they live...I was a bartender in a logging country bar one summer here in a small town and racism was blatant. It was an ugly environment to work in. I quit after a couple months
my point was people brought it up because he always does, as if it's an accurate example of the rest of the country.
Any dictators creed. He loves Putin because The Federation President can be as rich and elitist as he wants without back fire criticism.
I'm sorry, but that LGBT flag is pretty funny. I guarantee you I know some people who would fly that flag with "pride".
Not in the usual sense of the word. Every day it dies a little simply due to evolution and human nature. Not my definition of a thing. In America it has declined and faded at a rapid pace since my childhood, and certainly over the last few decades. The false narrative that it is on the rise is absurd. Were it not for the constant race-baiting by politicians, lying for profit by political pundits, and 24 hour media coverage of every slight to a minority in a donut shop it would certainly be even less prevalent. Despite the Deep State's efforts to divide US, Americans always come together in real life Young (to me) people don't have a clue how different life is for everyone in America today in every way, shape and form. They will never know how little they actually know. Public schools and the media have deliberately obliterated/revised/rewritten history and young people can find truth only through old books and oral histories much the same as with American Indians.
This is a vendor from out of town at our Frontier Days Celebration. Many locals, including my son, registered complaints to the organizer suggesting the vendor might not be invited back next year. Pretty sure he didn't sell enough to want to come back. As for the La Pine LGBT community, it's far greater per capita than Portland's is.
Yeah, somebody Somebody didn't do their research. Somebody is being conned. Somebody is falling for bullshit. https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...ssion-remarks-very-worth-getting-rid-of-trump
