![]() ![]() I've never read any of the Harry Potter books and I haven't seen any of the movies since the one with the bathroom snake. Might as well get this out of the way now. He didn't call it "Operation Wetback" then, but it probably wouldn't have mattered if he did. Border patrol agents targeted people while they accessed social services, something we've been seeing more of here in Portland since the election of Donald Trump, who praised the program during the November 2015 Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee. Like how this June marked the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of Operation Wetback, a massive deportation program where over a million workers were apprehended in the first year alone. I have my degree in history, and just so I don't feel like I went to college for nothing, every once in a while I'm going to talk about things that happened a long time ago and their connection to current events. I spent three years of my life in Boulder, Colorado, which is basically the Gwyneth Paltrow of cities. Don't worry though, Portland, you're not the whitest place I've ever lived. One of the most diverse things about Portland is its racism, which ranges from white ladies commenting on your skin color to full blown Klansman. We live in Portland so this is one I really can't avoid, whether it's a white dude trying to hand me his dirty dishes while I'm waiting in line to order food, the street battles between antifa and the white supremacist alt-right or the rising level of hate crimes, this city provides a never ending buffet of racist stuff to talk about. I've been a big horror fan ever since I was five years old and my mom took me to see Pet Sematary, so I've already got some scary stuff in the works that I'm very excited to share with you. ![]() I don't watch Game of Thrones because I'm on Twitter, so I know what happens in the show each week and I don't really have the time to watch all sixty episodes. It's easier if I just list the programs I currently watch: Fargo, Silicon Valley, The Walking Dead, Bob's Burgers, The Handmaid's Tale, Master of None, American Horror Story and ELeague. The only thing funnier was the fact that a man got so mad at a soulless corporate feminist symbol that he rage-sculpted a shitty little pug taking a piss. Well, that's not entirely true, I laughed for a second because I thought it was hilarious. I felt nothing when it was unveiled, and I felt nothing when that angry guy put a sculpture of a peeing dog at the girl statue's feet. I'm looking forward to all the self-righteous indignation my Feminist Opinions might bring forth, so let's hit the ground running, shall we? The Fearless Girl statue isn't feminism, it's a sexist marketing tool from a Wall Street hedge fund to promote gender diversity among the people gambling away pensions, because when your dad's retirement disappears, it'll be very important to know a woman was involved. ![]()
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