Some days I just reread this for laughs. #NeverForget
@gaditb I was the secretary of my neighborhood association for six months. At one point, a group of neighbors connected both to a transphobic religious university in the neighborhood (they ban trans people explicitly), developers, and folks connected to a far-right nationalist group (Patriot Prayer) demanded a list containing home addresses of all the people registered with the association.
Legally, there is a loophole that allows that. In response I said no on ethical terms and was sued.
@gaditb there were some that were very upset that I publicly quoted MLK, spoke to Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil, and said that the action helped uphold white supremacy.
@polymerwitch NICE.
If legally, they were allowed, how did it resolve?
@gaditb we settled with them where they could come to a meeting place and review the records in person to try to locate any irregularities in membership (it was their contention that people not living in the neighborhood had voted in elections). However, they couldn't mass copy the lists, and people that feared for their safety were allowed to have their info removed (there were 2 people that opted for that which make calls of mass voter fraud seem silly)
@gaditb eventually the harassment, gaslighting, and threats were too much. I couldn't organize any of the mutual aid projects I wanted to do through that system. So, I resigned.
@polymerwitch @gaditb Holy shit...
@polymerwitch what the heck is the context to this
@chara it's in the other replies. I was on a neighborhood association board in Portland. That neighborhood association sits right at the spot where last year's MAX Train Nazi Slayer attended a far-right "anti-antifa" march a few days before. I was elected, at least in part, due to my vocal opposition of groups like that. This was part of the fallout.
https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-oregon-montavilla-neighborhood-association-election/
@polymerwitch ugh, Portland. Kara thinks the place is pretty, but I think the place smells of white flight to me and I don't like it
@chara @polymerwitch hey, I just like some of the bridges and buildings, that's all
@kara @polymerwitch let's just say there's probably a few good reasons the place looks just a little bit like Andrew Ryan's art-deco underwater hideaway
@chara I think you’re both right
@chara well, when the state of Oregon was founded the constitution literally stipulated it as a "white utopia". It was illegal for non-whites to live in Portland for most of the history of the city and state. At one point it was known as the "KKK capital of the North".
@polymerwitch fucking hell
@polymerwitch @chara whoops, they didn't teach us _that_ in history class...
@polymerwitch Wait, what is this FROM??