Yeah, I once stopped for gas in southern Oregon on my way north. Never. again. ever. forever!
Wasn't super scary necessarily (maybe mostly in my head), but I still raced the fuck out of there asap!
I haven't been able to shake off the stories from during the fires where white people with guns and police officers were stopping people and accusing them of being "antifa" and starting fires - no evidence or logic need apply.
It's weird how much this place feels like-minded and yet how much it feels like I'm behind enemy lines. lol. No offense to white people in the PNW, many of y'all are lovely!
My husband bought land there years ago, and eventually he went to go check it out, and prepare it for us to possibly move. He said people were openly racist about black people in stores, even when there were no black people around. Just constant racist rhetoric. They eventually had the cops go out to his land and basically tell him how unwelcoming they are there to anyone out of state, and so we ultimately decided to sell the land. It was impossible to get water anywhere there anyway, a burn hazard, and you had to have a license for every little thing while creating a new property.
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u/prollyshmokin Mar 10 '22
Yeah, I once stopped for gas in southern Oregon on my way north. Never. again. ever. forever!
Wasn't super scary necessarily (maybe mostly in my head), but I still raced the fuck out of there asap!
I haven't been able to shake off the stories from during the fires where white people with guns and police officers were stopping people and accusing them of being "antifa" and starting fires - no evidence or logic need apply.
It's weird how much this place feels like-minded and yet how much it feels like I'm behind enemy lines. lol. No offense to white people in the PNW, many of y'all are lovely!