”Some attendees felt the size and scale of the crusade was a sign that attitudes toward religion could be changing in the Pacific Northwest.”

COUNTERPOINT: it’s actually because in recent years a bunch of fascist organizations (which, yes, included plenty of neo-Nazis & literal klansmen) relentlessly targeted PDX with giant, violent rally-invasions of out-of-town bigots, which normalized exactly this kind of far right “anti-woke” gathering.

#pdx #portland #maga #fascism #kkk #brettMeador #AtheyCreek #atheyCreekChristianFellowship #christianNationalism #christofascism #antiwoke #nazi #degeneracy #orpol #USPol #trump #rickAnderson #farright #patriotprayer #proudBoys #patriotFront #identityEvropa #eastSideWhitePride #TomMetzger #mulugetaSeraw

How a Dose of #MDMA Transformed a #WhiteSupremacist

Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took MDMA in a scientific study, it radically changed his beliefs – to the surprise of everyone involved.

Rachel Nuwer
June 15, 2023

"In February 2020, Harriet de Wit, a professor of psychiatry and behavioural science at the University of Chicago, was running an experiment on whether the drug MDMA increased the pleasantness of social touch in healthy volunteers. The day was proceeding like any other Tuesday when Mike Bremmer, de Wit's research assistant, appeared at her office door with a concerned look on his face.

"The latest participant in the double-blind trial, a man named Brendan, had filled out a standard questionnaire at the end. Strangely, at the very bottom of the form, Brendan had written in bold letters: 'This experience has helped me sort out a debilitating personal issue. Google my name. I now know what I need to do.'

"Seeing this cryptic message, both Bremmer and de Wit were worried. 'We really have to look into this,' de Wit said. They googled Brendan's name, and up popped a disturbing revelation: until just a couple of months before, Brendan had been the leader of the US Midwest faction of #IdentityEvropa, a notorious white nationalist group rebranded in 2019 as the American Identity Movement. Two months earlier, activists at Chicago Antifascist Action had exposed Brendan's identity, and he had lost his job.

"De Wit was now very worried. She'd just given a drug to a disgraced white supremacist, she realised, and had apparently inspired him to do who knows what out in the world. 'Go ask him what he means by 'I now know what I need to do,'" she instructed Bremmer. 'If it's a matter of him picking up an automatic rifle or something, we have to intervene.'

"A murderous spree turned out to be the opposite of what Brendan had in mind. As he clarified to Bremmer, love is what he had just realised he had to do. '#Love is the most important thing," he told the baffled research assistant. 'Nothing matters without love.'"

Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-a-dose-of-mdma-transformed-a-white-supremacist?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

I am glad that not everyone will forever associate this nice annual parade with the initiation of PDX's nightmarish experience with the fascists & neo-Nazis of Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys (etc), as well as Patriot Prayer nazi Jeremy Christian's murders on the MAX. because I definitely will. https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2024/04/82nd-avenue-of-roses-parade-celebrates-community.html

#pdx #portland #maga #fascism #nazis #jeremychristian #multnomahcountyGOP #joeyGibson #jamesBuchal #patriotprayer #proudboys #identityevropa #dailystormer #portlandpolice

Who could've seen that coming?

"The Guardian has identified a trainee nurse and reported US air force reservist called Bailey Ross as the proprietor of a white nationalist publisher in South Dakota.

"Ross was also a paid-up member of a white nationalist organization that marched at Charlottesville while enlisted in the United States Coast Guard."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/agartha-white-nationalist-book-publishing-military-veteran

#identityevropa #identitarian #coastguard #airforce #acab #unitetheright #whitenationalism #fascistsinthemilitary

#NathanDamigo trying to doxx people, working with Andy Ngo. More details at the link.

#identityevropa #americanidentitymovement #SamDickson #defendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCity #Atlanta #Buckhead #WilliamMcKinleyInstitute #AndyNgo

via @AtlantaAntifa

https://kolektiva.social/@AtlantaAntifa/109747622660633801

New article on our site. We can now confirm that Nathan Damigo, violent white supremacist and former leader of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, has recently been attempting to doxx forest defenders in Atlanta on behalf of his "William McKinley Institute" group. The WMI (which is also virulently antisemitic) has been heavily promoted by fascist propagandist Andy Ngo. Damigo is being provided lodging at the Buckhead property of Sam Dickson, a known white supremacist lawyer and real estate speculator who makes his money by ripping off working-class Black homeowners in the south of Atlanta.

Read the article for full details... and keep a close eye out for Damigo.

#NathanDamigo #identityevropa #americanidentitymovement #SamDickson #defendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCity #Atlanta #Buckhead #WilliamMcKinleyInstitute #AndyNgo

https://atlantaantifa.org/2023/01/24/violent-white-nationalist-leader-works-on-anti-antifa-info-project-from-new-base-in-atlanta/

https://www.theroot.com/a-virginia-police-officer-serving-a-majority-minority-h-1833432682

"A #Virginia school resource officer has been identified as an active member of the white nationalist group #IdentityEvropa. In fact, it appears he was in charge of guiding new recruits through the application process."

Don't put cops in schools.

Don't let white supremacists have jobs.

Certainly don't let them have jobs that give them unlimited license to commit violence with no repercussions, okay?

#WhiteSupremacy #racism #ACAB