SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
An Army veteran, a recent college graduate and a student who once won a poetry contest by condemning prejudice stirred up by the Sept. 11 attacks intervened as a man screamed anti-Muslim insults at two women in Portland, Ore., on Friday.
[...] Two of the men — Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53 — died in the attack, which occurred on a commuter train. The third, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, was treated on Saturday for injuries that the police said were serious but not life-threatening.
Jeremy Christian, 35, of North Portland, Ore., was charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the attack and could face additional charges when he is arraigned on Tuesday. Mr. Christian, who the authorities said had a history of making extremist statements on social media, was ranting at, and talking disparagingly about, the two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab.
Source: The New York Times
President Donald Trump has released his first official statement on the attack in Portland, Oregon, more than 48 hours after the two victims died.
"The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable," Mr Trump tweeted. "The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them."
Source: The Independent
Portland law enforcement leaders were tightlipped Saturday about the investigation into Friday's attacks that killed two men on a light rail train but a federal official did say it was too early to label the incident a hate crime.
[...] Loren Cannon, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office, [...]
"It's too early to say whether last night's violence was an act of domestic terrorism or a federal hate crime," he said. "However, in the coming days, the FBI, PPB and the prosecutors will work together to share information, leverage resources and make determinations about future criminal charges."
[...] Leaders of the Muslim community said they were thankful for the men who gave their lives to save the girls from harm. They have raised $50,000 toward a goal of $60,000 to help support the victims and their families.
Source: The Oregonian
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:31AM (1 child)
In my opinion everybody feminists, alt right, democrats, socialists, republicans, libertarians, anarchists, and so on are all seeing the same problem. Society isn't doing so hot right now. We're currently living through what will likely be the first generation to ever end up poorer than their parent's generation. Workers are being treated like cattle more than valued employees, our politicians seem more corrupt and out of touch than ever (for the first time more than 50% of congress are millionaires) and companies are coercively exploiting monopolies while our "representatives" in congress see all this and seemingly could not care less if they tried.
Looking at the source of problems is difficult but blaming groups of people is easy. Feminists blame men, alt right blame jews, democrats blame non-minorities, socialists blame capitalists, republicans blame poor people, libertarians and anarchists blame government, etc. So you end up with strange bedfellows. Islam like you mentioned is about as anti-feminist as possible, yet feminists embrace them since they see them as an ally against the establishment of the patriarchy. The republican party is mostly used as a 'bad copy' to pass legislation and bills which are detrimental to the interests of the poor and middle class, yet they supported primarily by the poor and middle class. The problem is that people don't really let logic get in the way of their biases. It's all just in-group, out-group hive (or mob) mentality.
People are lazy. Looking for actual problems, let alone solutions, is very difficult. Pointing your finger and blaming somebody else is easy.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:47AM
Second generation for my family. My grandfather was a dentist, my mother a librarian, I repair laptops.