Scientists Identified a Poisonous Gas Used by Fed Agents on Portland Protesters
This has bothered me for a long time and the fact it still drags on blows my mind. Predominantly white protesters in Portland misappropriated protests over racial inequality for their own disphoric amalgamation of social issues. There&#x27;s little agreement among them about the goal of the protests or even why they&#x27;re protesting. I know many of those people. Many have no idea why they&#x27;re there, it&#x27;s just drama to them, something they can do in the face of the most socially regressive times of our generation. On the other side people  see this, point and say, &quot;See? Told you I was right about those people.&quot;  
Nobody seems to give a shit about issues racial minorities and poor face, in the same breath ravenously supporting covid policies and their unprecedented impacts on income and social inequality along mostly racial lines. I&#x27;m surprised they aren&#x27;t chanting, &quot;black lives are essential.&quot;<p>This is not helpful for racial equality. It&#x27;s not helpful for anybody except the psychopathic industry of military oppression of civilian populations. Of course they&#x27;re walking all over our social contracts, the continued protests have opened the door for them.<p>Disruption of systematic inequality is needed, but this ain&#x27;t the way it&#x27;s going to happen. As a privileged work-from-homer, white person, whatever, our first obligation is to listen to what racial minorities are saying to understand the nature their struggles. Otherwise you can tell yourself you&#x27;re a virtuous champion of wokeness, but you&#x27;re really just a part of the same problem.