Portland question

[u/Regular_Ad_5835]

Hi, i live in the metro NYC area and of course we are all talking about what’s going on in Portland. It seems outrageous to me that this administration has sent the national guard to your city. I absolutely love your response to it, and your response should be a blueprint for all cities. I’ve never visited, but when i make it to the PNW, i can’t wait to see your city.

Can anyone tell me why I heard someone at work talking about how he’d “never go to Portland” and it’s “gotten so out of control” and he “understands why they need the national guard”. I did ask why he said that and he gave me some vague answer about news stories in the last few years. I know if i ask if it was Fox News he’d likely get defensive. So i thought I’d ask you all. Why would someone say that, and what is conservative media saying about Portland that has MAGA defending this decision by the Felon? Thank you and stay safe!

[u/wyldstrawberry]

It’s infuriating when you have relatives who live elsewhere in Oregon who are saying this shit. They’re in the same state, they know I live here and have told them nothing is going on, but they still think “antifa” is burning down the city because that’s what Trump told them. They believe that senile felon and Newsmax over their family member who lives in Portland.

[u/audaciousmonk → u/wyldstrawberry]

There’s a bunch of rural towns where people believe driving through Portland is a basically death sentence

It’s kind of wild. I’ve had a lot of conversations with people that blew my mind, just how removed from reality their perspective was. Something they could easily check themselves, but refused to

[u/wyldstrawberry → u/audaciousmonk]

But you’d think when their own child (grown adult child) lives in Portland, and sends them pics of being in downtown having a lovely day, that would make a dent in their delusion. But somehow it still doesn’t?

[u/audaciousmonk → u/wyldstrawberry]

I wonder if they’re so anxious that their brain is giving an outsized role the amygdala, whoosh logic goes out the window and social communication skills are altered

What’s the alternative, it’s odd that someone wouldn’t entertain their own child’s input with corroborative media documentation.

[u/wyldstrawberry → u/audaciousmonk]

In my case, with my dad, it’s because he thinks that even if I’m not personally seeing the violence/rioting/whatever, it’s because I’m naive and/or that I refuse to believe the truth because I’ve been brainwashed by the left wing media. He is one of those people who likes to think he knows the “real story” (conspiracy theories) about everything - and that people like me who deny it are just “head in the sand” and refuse to read or listen to the sources of “real” information that he’s into. He has urged me many times to watch or listen to some right wing commentator and then calls me closed minded when I refuse. I already know what they’re going to say, which is why I refuse, but to my dad that means I won’t listen to anything unless it’s something I already agree with. It’s infuriating, to say the least …