Files Of The Severely Educated
An Antifa member in Portland who was charged with felony arson and riot crimes has been revealed to be a journalism student at the University of Oregon. Alma Yesenia Raven-Guido, 19, of Beaverton, Ore., has been charged… with two counts of felony rioting, second-degree felony arson and first-degree felony criminal mischief. A serial riot arrestee, she was arrested again Tuesday night at a Black Lives Matter-Antifa riot in north Portland where the police union hall was set on fire.
Journalism, baby. Unbiased and impartial, bringing you the truth.
Upon arrest, Raven-Guido was found to be carrying multiple lighters and three plastic bottles, including one that was melted, in her backpack. She was also in possession of a crowbar and spray paint. Beyond her involvement in militant Antifa activities in the Portland-area, she has also been prominently featured in government diversity programmes. In 2019, she was part of the Beaverton Organising and Leadership Development programme, which exists to train emerging leaders of colour in Beaverton’s city government. She listed “racial justice” as one of her areas of interest in the programme’s survey.
And hence, of course, the vandalised Japanese restaurants. And the assaulted Asian-American journalists. And the Apple Store being on fire, again. And the targeting of local churches, whose meal programmes for the homeless were apparently deemed offensive.
Update, via the comments:
Ms Raven-Guido, being educated, is someone who seems to think that “racial justice” is enhanced by wrecking someone else’s neighbourhood with vandalism and fire, thereby ensuring the closure and withdrawal of local businesses and amenities – a phenomenon we’ve seen many times – and consequently reducing opportunities for employment, and degrading the quality of life for local residents, many of whom will be minorities, and whose homes were put in danger by the aforementioned fires.
It’s a lunatic conceit, and yet quite common among the severely educated.
And among those doing the educating.
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During the AIDS epidemic beginnings, you were a hater if you suggested that perhaps aids infected people should not work in restaurants or nursing–as if those were the only professions of gay men. Same with hepatitis. Better dead than rude. It turned out that the risk from casual contact was/is low, but at the time we did not know that.
Antifa types have just discovered the awful truths about life: society is flawed, humans are flawed, no one cares about them, and they have no purpose. They are uniformly without religion or beliefs. Wall Street was bombed by an anarchist in the 1920s and they were abundant in the 60s, placing hundreds of bombs especially in CA. Black lives don’t in fact matter to them, it is just about destroying the unfairness they have “discovered”. Any excuse will do. They are anti-faith, anti-goodness, thus attacking churches and even statues of a moose.
Antifa types have just discovered the awful truths about life: society is flawed, humans are flawed, no one cares about them, and they have no purpose.
This reminds me of a comment made by (I think) Christina Hoff Sommers about college feminists: they were rarely women who had grown up in any kind of difficult circumstances, or who had been subjected to any kind of real oppression. They were generally upper- to upper middle class, white, pretty, and from traditional families (she compares them to demographics like inner-city black and hispanic women, can can fairly be said to suffer rather a lot of sex-related hardship).
Her point was that the white girl feminists were so strident precisely because they’d been sheltered their entire lives by their socioeconomic status, and upon adulthood and moving away to college suddenly realized the world was a scary, dangerous place where being Daddy’s Little Princess didn’t matter very much. They panicked and went looking for any ideology or group that would make them feel safe and special again (for example, campus rape rates are infinitesimal compared to the rates in the inner urban areas of the surrounding cities, but college feminists don’t care about the poors)
I think there’s something similar afoot in the antifa factions. They’re uniformly from middle-class white-collar backgrounds and don’t seem to be suffering from a whole lot of actual oppression.