For over 90 days straight the mayor of Portland Oregon has allowed scumbags and losers to riot in the streets. For about a quarter of those nights, the Portland PD has actually declared the mayhem an official riot. NPR has decided that calling a riot in Portland a “riot” is more than likely racist. I have decided that I’m pissed some of my tax dollars go to support this leftist propaganda outlet.
This is what we subsidize, folks: Police Declare Portland Protests A Riot But This Definition Could Be Rooted In Racism
Then again it could not be rooted in racism. Of course they wouldn’t have written the article if they didn’t think it was racism, so here we go:
Nightly protests passed their 90th day this week. Over the course of nearly three months, crowd sizes have at times exceeded 10,000 people and on other occasions been fewer than 100. Between May 29 and Aug. 27, the Portland Police Bureau declared 23 riots and 22 unlawful assemblies (that doesn’t include nights that started as unlawful assemblies and were later declared riots). But the laws governing those declarations are vague and have roots in Oregon’s deeply racist past.
Actually the law is not vague at all and NPR even published the criteria for declaring a riot in the same article:
“A riot is when six or more persons engage in tumultuous and violent conduct,” Portland Police Bureau Deputy Chief Chris Davis recently explained in a video posted online. “Thereby intentionally or recklessly create a grave risk of causing public alarm.”
But interestingly enough, NPR didn’t include anything in the article that supports the thesis of the headline that calling riots in Portland “riots” is racist. This is as close as they came:
Oregon began as a white only state. While it banned slavery at its founding, the state adopted strict Black exclusionary laws which had been in place in the territory for decades. The law banned Black people from living in the state or owning property.
And?
You know, black people are allowed to live in Oregon now, so what is the actual point of this? I’m not joking when I say this is the only thing in the entire NPR article that has anything to do with racism.
Well, that’s not entirely true, they did include a completely out-of-context quote from a person they never bothered to introduce to the readers:
“What I didn’t expect was for the bar to be so low,” said Bynum, who said the history of these laws are also relevant to the moment.
“A lot of the riot and crowd control philosophy and statute was developed around the ’60s and ’70s when protests around some of the very same things … rights for Black people. … were taking place in the state and particularly in Portland,” Bynum said.
Who the f*ck is Bynum? Who the f*ck cares?
Remember, the premise of this NPR article is that the definition of a riot is racist. They have failed mightily in making their case. The best they came up with is because black people used to be banned form Oregon it’s racist to use the word “riot” to describe an actual riot and that leaves a humongous gap in logic.
But hey, everything is racist according to the left and since the George Floyd riots began, half-assed empty gestures are the remedy for racism, so clearly a rebranding is in order. Instead of calling them “riots” we could use the term “violence jamboree.” Actually, the liberal media has been calling them “mostly peaceful protest” so: problem solved.
I could see if they were calling them “N-word riots” but the actual word “riot” is completely without racial connotations. It’s an innocuous word to describe a specific occurrence. If black people who are the ones always rioting, maybe it’s not the word that needs fixing.
