i always kinda considered seattle and vancouver to be pretty similar but the last 3-4 months have totally obliterated that perception. i mean the VPD isn't good, no police are, but still
that seattle would enter contention for most batshit insane police department is both kinda surprising and also kinda entirely expected
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there's definitely a gradient of whiteness (culturally if not literally but i think literally too) descending from portland to seattle to vancouver that is probably a big part of it
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Last fall, mid conversation, a drunk off duty SPD officer handed me his loaded concealed carry firearm. This serves as both an example of how dumb SPD is, and how white I am.
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All the PNW has a really, really shitty history. Ngl It’s surprised me too but the more I thought about how this area was founded on racism, the more it makes sense.
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Seattle's always shown as some bastion of liberalism (I believed it too til I lived there) but in reality it's far too wealthy and white to earn that image authentically
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are YOU the dan zhang from quora?
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Anyone that remembers the WTO protests isn’t surprised at all
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lmao they've been under a consent decree for the last 9 years
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(since shortly after the John T Williams shooting iirc)
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