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Category Archives: Portland
The Emotional Palettes of Portland, Seattle and Vancouver
Portland runs in moss green and rust. Wet cedar, coffee black, the brown of secondhand wool, the gray-blue of rain pooling on the Willamette, the pale amber of a bar lamp seen through a fogged window. Light comes down through … Continue reading
Decoding Portland’s Orthodox Jews
Per Alliance Theory: Portland Orthodoxy operates as a defensive garrison in a territory defined by aggressive secularism and “expressive individualism.” While San Diego is a stabilized frontier and San Francisco is a resilience lab, Portland is a high-friction outpost. The … Continue reading
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Steve Sailer: Portland Burrito Truck Shut Down After Being Accused of Culturally Appropriating Burritos
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I find this story endlessly entertaining. The piece on it in The Portland Mercury is truly amazing. It’s hard to tell if it’s high level satire, or the most cucked out piece of self-hating anti-white … Continue reading
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Because Portland Is White
This Washington Post articles fails to mention that Portland has the highest percentage of white people of any American city. That’s the only way it can sustain all these cool quirky collaborative ventures. Imagine public vegetable gardens in the downtown … Continue reading
Are Russians White?
Comment: “Physically they are, but behaviorally there are some differences. Russians, along with many ethnics, tend to be more ethnocentric and less universalist in their thinking than the whiter-people. In this sense they are a little closer to the NAM’s … Continue reading