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[disquesinge]

I don't think I could ever go back to Portland to live for a significant period of time ever again. The amount of accepted racism there is nauseating to me. What is considered anti-racist there is pretty questionable to me. I don't know, reading a post on queerportland about someone posting in W4W about wanting a femme white/Native/Romani/

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[photosynthetik]

yeah, i saw that and took issue with the majority of what she posted (although i chose to only comment about a part of it

[disquesinge]

Very true - and perhaps I'm underestimating the extent to which people "know better" here - that is, they know they will get in trouble if they express their true feelings, so they don't - even though they still act and think in a racist way. Sometimes I wonder how much of it is due to college setting - would I be having the same feelings if I was at Reed / LC / UofO / OSU / etc? Would the same level of discussions happen there? I suppose there is really no way of knowing