Under liberal rule, identity group membership has been the main criterion for selecting a President of Harvard, a Supreme Court Justice, a US Senator, and even the Vice President of the USA. Why shouldn’t it be the primary determinant of which misbehaving students warrant punishment in Portland public schools?

Portland Public Schools (PPS) introduced its “Student Support, Discipline & Safety” policy in November. Under the policy, behavioral support plans must consider a student’s “trauma,” “race” and “gender identity/presentation,” as well as whether “social emotional learning” and “restorative justice” are appropriate for them.

“Restorative justice” is like racial justice, except it provides kid glove treatment based not only on preferred race but on membership in any other favored identity group (e.g., sexual deviants, illegal aliens).

In the unlikely event that there is anyone working in public schools in a place like Portland who has not already been thoroughly indoctrinated on how restorative justice is to be implemented,

The policy further requires each PPS school to maintain a “School Climate Team,” tasked with participating in “ongoing training in implicit bias, antiracism and culturally responsive practices.”

The authorities must be worried that exposure to reality causes liberal brainwashing to wear off, despite the constant reinforcement provided by the media.

Additionally, it mandates that a teacher not be transferred to another location if doing so would “decrease the building’s percentage of minority teachers to less than the student minority percentage in the building” or decrease its percentage of transgender and nonbinary staff to less than 30%.

Why not just cut to the chase and make it illegal to employ teachers who are not either black or sexually insane?

On a tip from Steve T.

There is good reason we find sewage inherently disgusting. Contact with it can make us very sick. The same goes for homosexual behavior. In ultraliberal Portland, there has been an uptick in shigella cases:

Shigella — a bacteria that is spread through fecal matter — can cause fever, stomach cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea, which can last three to 10 days, and can include blood, health officials warn.

“Shigella spreads when one person’s infected poop gets into another person’s mouth through food or water, from objects or surfaces with shigella bacteria on them, or during sex,” Multnomah County said.

They mean the sort of sex promoted by the liberal establishment, not the kind that results in human reproduction.

The county said the illness has historically affected men who have sex with men, international travelers, and noted other outbreaks have occurred from food service and contaminated water.

According to county officials,

“Local disease patterns suggest that fecal-oral spread through sexual contact may account for between half and more than two thirds of all cases without international travel.”

The rainbow fun doesn’t stop with AIDS and monkeypox. At least shigella is sure to get plenty of government funding, since it primarily affects a top-tier “oppressed” identity group.

Once it starts spreading, you don’t have to partake of sexual diversity to catch shigella. The bacteria can survive up to 5 months on inanimate surfaces.

On tips from Barry A, Eddie_Valiant, and Bluto.

If you doubt that progressives are destroying American civilization on purpose, look to a locale where they have achieved total dominance — like Portland:

[T]he Multnomah County Health Department plans to distribute aluminum foil and straws to fentanyl smokers in Portland in July, officials say.

Spokesperson Sarah Dean confirmed to KOIN 6 that city officials announced their plan to distribute the supplies in a PowerPoint presentation… The supplies will also include glass pipes and snorting kits.

They were already giving out free needles, but heroin is giving way to the fentanyl that Democrats allow to pour over the undefended border.

Dean said the rise of fentanyl has decreased the demand for needle-focused “harm reduction” services. Because fentanyl is typically smoked rather than injected, she said visits to clinics have recently dropped 60% since 2019.

Jessica Guernsey, Multnomah County public health director, says the objective is to “engage people who may not otherwise engage in services.”

Not even a bureaucrat could believe that it benefits society for decent people to be forced to finance free fentanyl pipes for the homeless population — which liberal policies have been causing to explode. Underneath a thin veneer of bleeding heart idiocy, liberalism is depravity and malice.

On tips from Barry A and Chuck A.

Educrats have made impressive progressive in their efforts to infantilize and transsexualize the overgrown children in their care. At Portland State University, some students experience the violence of knowing there are people out there who are not fully on board with the LGBT agenda. These oppressed souls are coddled in their campus safe space with cotton candy and coloring books.

The following text apparently is not a parody of liberal snowflakery and intolerance, but was taken from a letter addressed to the “Campus Community” by PSU President Stephen Percy and Vice President for Global Diversity and Inclusion Ame Lambert:

Recent headlines have pointed out that anti-trans bill in legislatures across the country have doubled since last year, with 469 bills introduced and 38 new laws on the books in 13 states.

The main purpose of these laws is to protect children from horrific sex change procedures and from grooming by perverts who prey on them.

We recognize the toll this campaign, and the media that surrounds it, has on the queer and trans members of our community…

Assuming that PSU students are adults (if only in the legal sense), few of these laws would apply to them even if they lived in parts of the country where they are enacted. At worse, men might have to refrain from invading private facilities like locker rooms designated for women. But any resistance to anything LGBT anywhere is framed as an attack on all LGBTers everywhere. Unlike the normal people they incessantly bully, they have solidarity.

Please know that there are resources that all [i.e., transsexual crybullies and their woke allies] may find supportive in the current environment.

Many of these resources are provided by PSU’s Queer Resource Center (QRC). Among those planned:

“Trans and Gender Expansive Celebration and Community Hour” Monday-Friday 12pm – 1pm in the QRC. Cotton candy, temporary tattoos, and coloring will be available. Please bring your PSU ID.

It isn’t all cuddles and hugs. In the unlikely event that anyone who deviates from LGBT ideology dares open his mouth on campus, stern measures will be applied:

PSU community members who have experienced discrimination, harassment, or bias based on gender identity or sexual orientation are encouraged to make a report with the Office of Equity and Compliance.

Who would want to be called before the Office of Equity and Compliance?

No doubt turning down a transsexual hookup proposition would qualify as bias based on sexual orientation.

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

The depraved LGBT agenda, with its satanic focus on defiling innocent children, is too evil (not to mention repulsive) to have mainstream appeal. Yet it dominates our culture because it has the aggressive backing of the liberal establishment (the federal government, the media, corporate boardrooms). This is reinforced at the street level by the fascistic thugs calling themselves Antifa. Let’s see whether Antifa’s Brownshirt tactics play as well in Fort Worth as they do in Portland:

Black-clad counter-protesters in tactical gear, many armed with guns, stood outside Fort Brewery and Pizza as the restaurant hosted a drag show Sunday, with protesters for the nonprofit organization Protect Texas Kids demonstrating across the street, according to the Fort Worth Police Department (FWPD). Counter-protester Samuel Folkes, 20, allegedly went over to the protesters and pepper-sprayed them, subsequently swinging at police when they tried to arrest him.

Counter-protester Christopher Guillott, 33, is accused of attacking officers with an umbrella and hitting one in the face as they attempted to handcuff Folkes, with both men continuing to resist arrest.

Both were charged with a second-degree felony for assaulting an officer. Since Tarrant County DA Phil Sorrells was not appointed by George Soros, they might even see some jail time. A third Antifa kook also faces charges.

Protect Texas Kids thanked the FWPD:

The same Antifa radicals have been at all of our “kid-friendly” drag show protests for the past year attempting to instigate and cause problems. Every other police department has refused to hold these criminals accountable for breaking the law.

The front line of the Culture War reaches Fort Worth:

Holding the line is the first step; pushing it back comes next.

On tips from Lyle and KirklesWorth.

Seattle isn’t the only Left Coast city where civilization appears to be collapsing. From the next state south:

A suspect has chewed off an elderly man’s ear and some of his face in a horrific attack on a Portland train platform.

The injuries were so severe that some of the 78-year-old man’s skull was exposed after the violent attack in the suburb of Gresham in the state of Oregon on Tuesday morning.

If you can reach it from the city by train, so can the riffraff that has taken over the city.

Police arrested 25-year-old suspect Koryn Kraemer and booked him on an accusation of assault in the second degree

Drugs were involved, including fentanyl and marijuana. Kraemer says he believed his victim to be a robot. He is likely to be or to eventually become a member of the homeless community that liberal policies have encouraged to flourish in places like Portland, where psychosis and drug use are the norm.

Our progressive future is unfolding like a horror movie along the lines of John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Liberals have been allowed to take control of education. Christopher Rufo reports on the unfolding consequences:

Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”

Modern liberal ideology largely consists of sexual depravity grafted onto hatred of Caucasians and Western Civilization.

The premise is simple: privileged white heterosexuals have created an oppressive gender system in order to dominate racial and sexual minorities. As the curriculum explains, “gender is colonized,” and Western societies have used language to erase alternative sexualities. “When white European people colonized different places, they brought their own ideas about gender and sexuality,” the curriculum reads. “When the United States was colonized by white settlers, their views around gender were forced upon the people already living here. Hundreds of years later, how we think and talk about gender are still impacted by this shift.”

To a liberal, it doesn’t matter whether something is true or even remotely likely, but only whether it is politically correct to assert. That is why we now have professors professing that the concept of being male did not exist in the Western hemisphere until it was “imposed by Christian colonizers.”

If leftists continue to control education, these psychotic delusions may come to be accepted as reality.

The curriculum begins in kindergarten with an anatomy lesson featuring graphic drawings of children’s genitalia. The lesson avoids the terms “boy” and “girl” in favor of the gender-neutral variants “person with a penis” and “person with a vulva,” because, according to the curriculum, some girls can have penises and some boys can have vulvas.

First and second grade students are encouraged to adopt alternative genders and pronouns.

In third through fifth grade, the district begins lessons on “LGBTQIA2S+” activism. The curriculum presents the categories of “man” and “woman” as manifestations of the “dominant culture” that has used sexual norms to oppress minorities.

Kids who probably have not learned to solve simple math problems are taught about “cisheteronormativity,” which they are told must be destroyed.

The solution, according to Portland Public Schools, is to obliterate the “white colonizer” conception of sexuality, with its rigid male-female binary, and encourage students to inhabit “the infinite gender spectrum.”

The indoctrination is truly sinister:

The curriculum provides a detailed explanation of how to “pause puberty” through “hormones and/or surgeries”…

The social engineers intend to create pint-sized activists for the cause of politicized perversion:

By the end of fifth grade, the curriculum explicitly asks students to make a “commitment to change,” according to the dictates of gender ideology. Students receive a list of six commitments, including: “I commit to learning more about what LGBTQIA2S+ words mean and how they have changed over time”; “I commit to learning about the history and leadership of Black trans women”; “I commit to practicing pronouns and correcting myself EVERY time”; “I commit to attending QSA/GSA and being a leader at my school”; and “I commit to watching and reading books, movies, and TV shows that have LGBTQIA+ characters.”

Decent Americans need to make their own commitment: to see that groomers who impose LGBT curricula are imprisoned as sex offenders.

On tips from Franco and MrRightWingDave.

Covid hysteria and its exploitation by teachers unions have brought the public school crisis to a head. Children have learned little if anything from this dysfunctional institution for 2 years now. The situation is so impossible to ignore that even Portland will allow a charter school. Tolerant liberals have achieved total dominance in the City of Roses, so the school will open on a no whites allowed basis, despite the population of Portland being overwhelmingly white:

HOLLA Public Charter School is expected to open in the fall of 2022 in partnership with the Reynolds School District.

If your children are excluded on the basis of race, maybe that’s just as well. Promises Eric Knox, executive director and founder of HOLLA,

“There’ll be a very strong hip-hop focus around our kids’ learning style. … Hip-hop is what our kids understand.”

Read some rap lyrics for insight into the implications.

As Jazz Shaw observes, the association with the Reynolds School District indicates that this operation will receive taxpayer money:

[S]ince when do you get to exclude students from publicly funded schools based exclusively on race?

It goes without saying that white children are inherently racist and therefore do not deserve to be educated, but it appears that Asian kids will be excluded too. Asians comprise 8.2% of the population in Portland, blacks 5.8% (and whites 77.4%).

Expect the classes to look something like this — minus the white kids:

On tips from R F and Wiggins.

Who better to troll the clowns comprising the Portland City Council than another clown? This one does a fine job:

Ronald Grimaldi’s claim to have broken his funny bone is belied by his remarks that “as someone in my profession, Mayor Wheeler has been a great inspiration to me” and that “as a clown, I certainly don’t feel underrepresented in local government.” His nomination of Mayor Ted Wheeler as Clown of the Year deserves to be seconded.

This was followed at the same meeting by another prank:

The comedian, Alex Stein, wore hospital scrubs and a surgical mask around his neck as he launched into a rhyming routine promoting vaccinations against the coronavirus, a schtick that garnered him national headlines last week when he delivered it before the Dallas City Council.

This time the mayor, visibly miffed, cut Stein off.

Maybe it’s Wheeler who broke his funny bone. The Dallas City Council let Stein go on with his act for several minutes.

On a tip from Jester.

My apologies. I never should have been so skeptical of the Climate Catastrophe. It seemed as if the crisis had been invented out of whole cloth by scoundrels seeking to exploit the gullibility of fools to seize money and power. But obviously there is a serious problem, in light of the revelation that due to climate change, the thermometer hit 180°F this summer in Portland, Oregon.

As you might expect, people died. It sounds incredible, but it must be true. We have it on the word of Democratic Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who revealed the shocking information at the United Nations climate summit:

“We are in a race against time,” the congressman said at a press conference Wednesday alongside several of his Democratic colleagues.

“It took on new urgency for me this year with the horrific events,” he continued. “There was one day this summer in Portland, where temperatures in the heart of my district hit 180 degrees. People died.”

At least Portland is all past Covid now. Three minutes at 149°F kills the virus.

On a tip from Varla.

Leftist teachers love the Progress Pride flag so much that they not only hang in on the wall but suggest students pledge allegiance to it. Old Glory, not so much:

A Portland-area teacher who opposes her district’s vote to ban Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ Pride symbols in schools told local media that she removed the American flag from her classroom because it represents “violence and menace and intolerance.”

Only the most demented Democrat could miss the irony. If any symbol perfectly symbolizes violence, menace, and intolerance, it is the Black Lives Matter flag, which stands for Marxism, wanton crime, arson, looting, and hatred of American heritage and of Caucasians. LGBT symbols represent degeneracy and sexual depravity; placing them in schools violates any remaining laws against corrupting the innocence of minors.

Gail Grobey, an English teacher at Newberg High School and former president of the Newberg Education Association, said her union is mobilizing against a newly approved resolution by Newberg Public Schools that bans overtly “political” imagery on campus, including the Black Lives Matter and Pride symbols.

But she wouldn’t have a problem with banning the American flag — not until the day comes that Democrats replace the red and white stripes with rainbow colors and the stars with black supremacists’ favorite slogan.

The irony — or rather mind-bending hypocrisy — gets heavier still. Grobey growls that not being able to ram her authoritarian brand of politics down children’s throats demonstrates that “Big Brother wants to control what we support or what we talk about.”

It is parents who would like some control over what left-leaning teachers talk about. That’s why cameras are needed in classrooms. Parents need to be able to monitor the video feed online.

Grobey reacts to her nation’s flag like a vampire to the Holy Cross:

“When I see [board member] Trevor DeHart sitting there at those board meetings with that giant American flag behind him, it’s terrifying.”

Maybe moonbats are right to be terrified. Maybe there will be a reckoning on behalf of the imperiled nation Old Glory represents. Maybe kooks like herself will soon find themselves muttering their deranged malice to squirrels from a park bench rather than getting paid with our money to impose it on impressionable children.

On a tip from Anonymous.

As we have learned repeatedly over the past year, liberal authorities are ferociously hostile to local police. Officers can wait passively to be bullied out of existence in favor of the Schutzstaffel-style federal police force Democrats seem to have in mind, or — if they want to avoid getting treated like Derek Chauvin — they can start pushing back:

All 50 of the Portland Police Bureau’s highly trained rapid response unit officers resigned this week after the recent indictment of Officer Corey Budworth for allegedly assaulting a photographer during an overnight riot last summer.

Volunteers for the Rapid Response Unit have been deployed to tamp down the riots that afflicted Portland every night for months on end and that sporadically continue. The officers are no longer willing to defend from the mob a society that sides with the mob against them.

As the Portland Police Association notes, Budworth “has been caught in the crossfire of agenda-driven city leaders and a politicized criminal justice system.” He was helping to control one of the countless mostly peaceful protests inspired by the martyrdom of Saint George Floyd when he allegedly assaulted rioter Teri Jacobs. Portland had nearly reached the milestone of 75 consecutive nights of rioting at the time.

That night, according to the police union, about 200 demonstrators – many equipped with tactical helmets, faces covered, and armed with a variety of weapons – descended on the Multnomah Building in southeast Portland. Multiple dumpsters were set on fire, buildings were defaced, and windows were broken. A riot soon was declared at the planned event after someone from the crowd launched a Molotov cocktail into the building, setting it ablaze.

The Multnomah Building houses the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office.

Police cleared the mostly peaceful protesters, who then counterattacked, marching back toward the building. Budworth was knocked to the ground.

“RRT officers, including Officer Budworth, used their Police Bureau-issued batons to try and stop the crowd’s criminal activity,” the union’s description of events continued. “Per his training and in response to the active aggression of a rioter interfering with a lawful arrest, Officer Budworth used baton pushes to move a rioter, now known to be Teri Jacobs, out of the area.”

For this, Budworth is being charged with assault, as though he were the criminal. Jacobs is getting a $50,000 civil settlement from the taxpayers, complements of the likeminded leftists running Portland.

Meanwhile,

In October, County District Attorney Mike Schmidt rejected over 540 riot related cases in “interest of justice” and has implemented catch-and-release policies for accused criminals and rioters.

Jacobs’ attorney claims he beat her with the baton, while other officers (who were also busy dealing with rioters at the time) failed to intervene. If every attempt to suppress a riot results in authorities choosing to take such allegations seriously, all the cops will end up in prison, and anarchy will prevail.

On tips from Occam’s Stubble, R F, Wiggins, Mr. Freemarket, ABC of the ANC, and MAS.

The city of Portland has succumbed to leftism. Here is what happens if you try to drive on streets ruled by Antifa/Black Lives Matter while they are staging their daily “mostly peaceful protests”:

[A] vehicle apparently leading the group came upon a pickup truck driver who was traveling toward the marchers, and the lead vehicle blocked the driver’s path — and in seconds, numerous militants descended upon the pickup truck driver and began threatening him.

The driver, who was armed himself, demonstrated remarkable nerve in facing down the mob of heavily armed thugs.

As the driver got back into this truck and began to move past the militants, one leftist called him a “f***ing Nazi” as others demanded he “get outta here!” Then just before he reached the intersection — apparently after one of the leftists hit or threw something at his truck — the driver stopped, got out, and confronted the group.

He was hopelessly outnumbered.

Soon the driver was requesting an ambulance, asking for his gun back, and telling the leftists that he’s a disabled Marine.

This is what liberals are turning our country into:

The same mob of thugs attacked another vehicle the same day for trying to move past their blockade rather than obeying their orders. Looks like they punctured at least two tires, smashed the back window, and injured the driver:

Marginalize the police as Democrats have been doing and you get Antifa/BLM instead.

It’s hard to believe that even Biden voters want to live in a country like the USA is rapidly becoming. Yet they must. It has been clear since well before the election that Antifa/BLM are allowed to run riot because they are doing the work of Democrat authorities, serving as cat’s paws to terrorize regular Americans.

If members of a right-wing militia ever behaved like this, they would be dead or in long-term lock-up within a few hours. In contrast, Antifa/BLM are confident that for them there will be no consequences. For all intents and purposes, they are in charge.

On a tip from Varla.

A leftist mob inspired by Black Lives Matter seized effective control of Portland nearly a full year ago. Since then, it has rioted incessantly. At last Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler says he is going to take back what’s left of the city on behalf of civilization:

“They want to burn, they want bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said Friday, while announcing the city would extend its state of emergency through Monday. …

“Together we can make a stand … and take our city back.”

Lacking the spine to confront Black Lives Matter, Wheeler squeaked, “If BLM leaders can show the courage to stand up to this mob, then we all should.”

For all intents and purposes, BLM is the mob, even in Portland, where few blacks live. Antifa riots on Black Lives Matter’s behalf.

Portland’s black community responds to Wheeler’s shifty doubletalk:

If Wheeler was trying to drive a wedge between Black Lives Matter and Antifa, he has characteristically failed.

On a tip from Steve T.