Antisemitism alive and well in Eugene, OR

Ugh. I'm sorry Judit.  I'm not proud to be an Oregonian right now. 

Glad you are okay. 

Apparently the Nazi groups encourage their members to  spread the hate filled flyers throughout an entire neighborhood while targeting a specific Jewish targets so they can't be accused of violating the civil rights of any one in particular.
This after some high profile arrests were made.

They also go around with bullhorns and harass Jewish people on the street while trying to get a reaction, and filming so they can call the cops when their victims respond and claim that their right to free speech is being violated.

This is happening across the country. 
 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzjwz/goyim-defense-league-jon-minadeo

That sucks, Judit.  So sorry you and others are having to deal with this.  

In the words of  Neil Young:

Love and only love will see you through. 

Hate is everything you think it is. 

Only love can break it down.

Nazi jackasses

https://eugeneweekly.com/2023/03/07/addressing-antisemitism/

You let Trump in the front door in 2016 and this is what we’ve been getting ever since. 

“Good people, very fine people, on both sides.” 

Try not to sum this garbage up as something that may be very prevalent in your area - it is a vast minority trying to appear that they and their sentiments are more widespread than reality has it. Some jagoffs have been doing this, likely to sew and stir up discord, around Beverly Hills and some surrounding areas for a couple years now but they don't have the guts to show their faces and do it all in the cloak of darkness. Basic common decency and respect for all people regardless of their race, color, religion, or background will always prevail and that is where the vast majority of everyone wants it too.

Yeah, I don't think this is a Eugene thing, it's a human thing.

I'm just surprised they spelled everything correctly and had good font.

For morons, it's the little things that matter.

>>>They also go around with bullhorns and harass Jewish people on the street while trying to get a reaction, and filming so they can call the cops when their victims respond and claim that their right to free speech is being violated<<<

That's something the religious nuts (redundant?) have been hip to for years. Those sad clowns who set up outside concerts berating folks with a bullhorn to get a reaction on film is nothing new. Ignoring them is the best way to handle their ilk. It can be really hard to do, but oh god how they hate being ignored.

>>>You let Trump in the front door in 2016 and this is what we’ve been getting ever since<<<

Lil' Orange Donny didn't create the hatred, he just helped to expose it.

So he's got that going for him.

There were some Eugene right wingers who'd drive to Corvallis to stir shit up at the county court house, but a mini riot ensued one time, and they got the shit kicked out of them...  nothing serious, but fairly bloody for these parts.   No rivers were cried...

https://eugeneweekly.com/2018/12/19/local-racist-gets-marrd-in-corvallis/

This level of anti Semitism  is shocking to everyone, except Jews. It's ingrained in our culture, so this is what we get.

On the upside, maybe it will open a true dialogue about what anti Semitism really is, how it survives and thrives in the US, and maybe what we can do about it. It can't get better without this level of dialogue, and it often takes something very negative tro get to that point.

"and they got the shit kicked out of them"

How do we deal with these haters without descending to their depraved level?

Hearing shit like this makes me so angry, and there is so much of it going on, and reasoning with racists and bigots long experience has shown to be futile. So what option is there but to respond to their violence with violence in self-defense of ourselves as individuals and of the larger community?

I am shocked at myself for thinking this way.

I believe the vast majority of people are basically kind. Together we need to stand up to and never give an inch to bullies.

A nazi or two found in a dumpster with a couple of those flyers nail-gunned to their to their skulls?

Just spit-ballin' here.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165737405/antisemitism-statistics-report...

>..The Goyim Defense League is behind more than half of all propaganda incidents

The ADL also found activity doubled among organized white supremacist groups, which were linked to 852 incidents of distributing antisemitic propaganda.

While the study cites a number of factors contributing to the surge, the organization concluded the massive uptick in the spread of anti-Jewish propaganda was "largely due to the growth of the Goyim Defense League," known as the GDL.

The GDL network, which has significant crossover with other white supremacist groups and movements, was responsible for at least 492 propaganda incidents in 2022, a dramatic increase from the 74 recorded in 2021.

As NPR's Here & Now reported, "GDL members have been accused of stalking, aggravated assault, murder, terror threats, threatening public officials, vandalism, soliciting sex from minors and defacing a memorial for the Pulse nightclub shooting victims in Florida."

Ye's social media attacks inspired dozens of incidents

The artist formerly known as Kanye West, who in October 2022 made conspiratorial statements about Jews and praised Adolf Hitler while denying facts about the Holocaust on social media, is also to blame for dozens of antisemitic attacks, the ADL said.

"The impact of Ye's comments was felt on the ground across the country," according to the report.

"Fifty-nine antisemitic incidents from October 11 through the end of 2022 directly referenced Ye, including 44 cases of harassment, 13 cases of vandalism and two cases of assault."

(Twitter suspended Ye's account after the rapper/mogul posted an image of a swastika depicted inside a Star of David.)

The findings are a call to action

The audit, the organization said, should serve as a wake-up call to government officials. The ADL called on leaders to condemn antisemitic incidents outright. It also urged them to launch "a concerted whole-of-government, whole-of-society response" that would include blocking antisemitism online.

"Public officials and civic leaders — from the President, to governors, attorneys general, mayors, other civic leaders, and law enforcement authorities — must use their bully pulpits to speak out against antisemitism and all forms of hate and extremism," the report said.

Camera, firearm.

I hate Oregon Nazis.

Fuck them.  Probably some punk ass loser with nothing better to do than to spread garbage like that.  It would be a shame if someone caught the perp in the act and beat his sorry ass.  

Antisemitism and hate are everywhere, but so is Love. Fuck the haters. Sorry you have to deal with that at your doorstep, Judit.  

>>>>Lil' Orange Donny didn't create the hatred, he just helped to expose it.

and fuel it. He had the perfect platform to spew his rhetoric to all his most ardent syncophants for 4 years. He did a thorough job, and he is most certainly responsible for fanning any flame that was flickering.

When I lived there a decade ago someone was doing the same thing but the theme was KKK messages and instead of gravel in the baggies there were candies. Oregon is a trip, but hatred and bigotry isn't a new development in that state. 

feel like i read that the place was founded in tons of racism

https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/northwest-american-republic

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/northwest-front-americas...

>>from the above Politico article:

To wit, the 1850 Oregon Donation Land Act  allowed free land to whites alone. And during an 1857 vote on the constitution’s formulation, some 83 percent of participants voted to prohibit “free negroes” from living or working in the state. Chief Justice George Williams, who later served as attorney general for President Ulysses Grant, summed the sentiment,  lobbying voters to “consecrate Oregon to the use of the white man, and exclude the negro, Chinaman, and every race of that character.” According to  one researcher, Oregon was “the only state ever admitted with a black exclusion clause in its constitution.” There’s a reason, growing up in Portland, that my seventh-grade teacher informed us Oregon was often considered the most racist state west of the Mississippi.

Remarkably, such laws remained in force in Oregon until 1926, allowing a white population to steer a demographic legacy apart from other parts of the country. At one point, Oregon boasted the  highest per-capita membership in the Ku Klux Klan. For good measure, Oregon failed to ratify the 15th Amendment, allowing African-Americans the right to vote, until 1959; the state also didn’t formally ratify the 14th Amendment, allowing equal protection under the law, until 1973. “Oregon was a Klan state—it was as prejudiced as South Carolina, so there was very little difference other than geographic difference,” Otto Rutherford, one of the state’s leading civil rights activists,  said. Despite its current trappings of progress and tolerance, mid-20 th century Portland,  according to Oregon Public Broadcasting, “was still considered the most segregated and prejudiced city on the West Coast.” Today, not only does Portland remain the  whitest major metropolitan area in the country, but the city managed to slough its remaining African-American population even further in the 21 st century, dropping from  6.6 percent in 2000 to  6.3 percent in 2010. Seattle’s decline has proven even steeper, with the city’s black population sagging from  8.4 percent to  7.9 percent in just 10 years, with no end to the drop in sight.

and if you try to debate that this didn't spill over to antisemitism from the git-go: you silly 

Most reading this probably unaware Oregon didn't even require unanimous jury convictions until forced to do so by the Supreme Court in 2020.

Now just ask yourself why such a concept might have ever been made into law to begin with?

Then couple this with a state-made public defender crisis (we effectively don't have any) and you can quickly begin to recognize real harm here.

Yes Oregon has a rich history of discrimination. it's still pretty much the current reality. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs_Q4hEqmA&pp=ygUTTmF6aSBwdW5rcyBmdWNrIG9...