Emboldened white nationalists? Look no further than this liberal Oregon college town

[dlwickham]

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/12/post_292.html

Looking back, things did seem a bit out of balance with successful marijuana entrepreneur Bethany Sherman.

She shared an open contempt for Eugene and its renowned left-wing politics. She gloated about the election of Donald Trump. She made sure to note that she’d given her baby a German name.

But few who knew Sherman expected to read an antifascist expose´ accusing her of neo-Nazi sympathies. They were even less prepared for Sherman’s immediate and enthusiastic declaration of white pride, though she disavowed any connection to neo-Nazis.

Within a day of the allegations, Sherman found her carefully cultivated image as a well-connected and savvy businesswoman in tatters. She closed the marijuana testing lab that she had worked for years to establish. The industry condemned her and customers left in droves.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Oregon was more explicit than other states during its founding and explicitly built white supremacy

into its incorporation as a state.

[dalton99a]

5. There is still a lot of self-selection, i.e. whites moving there to avoid nonwhites

[unc70]

6. Many other states were effectively white only

The division of states into so called “slave and free” was often closer to “slave and white only”. This was particularly the case in states like OH, IN, and IL where restrictions on non-white immigration was embodied in the early state constitutions.

[dalton99a]

2. "With her beliefs in the open, she said, she can 'pursue the life I've been longing for'"

Ok, good luck, idiot Nazi

[FSogol]

3. Scurry back into a dark corner with your fellow cockroaches and vermin.

[Merlot]

4. Hit them where it hurts, better than punching them in the face

She closed the marijuana testing lab that she had worked for years to establish. The industry condemned her and customers left in droves.

Perfect.

[dlwickham]

7. IKR

people like her should be forced out of business

[Initech]

8. WTF is wrong with white supremacists?

[dlwickham]

9. how much time do you have