Portland State University protestors split off and break windows/vandalize downtown businesses

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

[SunSeeker]

1. How does this help Palestinians?

[calimary]

4. Answer: not one bit.

If anything, it probably alienates more people.

[LeftInTX]

5. It's fun to break windows??? It makes the window breaker feel good!

[captain queeg]

2. Great. Way to reinforce the belief that Portland is a lawless Lib haven

That draws the proud boys and similar RW groups to show up. It’s just selfcperpetuating.

[RVN VET71]

12. Proud Boys tactics like this were used

in attempts to distract from the George Floyd protests. I will await results of police investigations, but my first thought seeing masked punks trashing buildings at otherwise peaceful protests, the thought does occur that that's what's happening here.

[RandySF]

3. Anarchists

Same M.O. in the Bay Area.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Exactly - the same thing happened during the BLM protests

where for some reason, Portland became a poster child of never-ending destructive anarchist nonsense.

[jimfields33]

7. And then residents are upset when Starbucks decides to close up shop.

Somehow it ends up Starbucks is the bad one.

[wnylib]

16. Starbucks is one of the businesses being targeted in the

call for divestment.

[Takket]

8. I'm sure all Palestinians thank them for the support

[Irish_Dem]

9. This is no longer about helping the Palestinians.

It is about creating damage and chaos?

Who benefits and how?

[Auggie]

10. Protestors? Or Provocateurs?

[Captain Zero]

11. Need to catch in the act and identify

But everybody just backs off.

[samnsara]

13. i graduated HS in 1968 and I didnt even want to...

go to college as it was so volatile at that time.

[DemocratInPa]

14. And people on here are finding every reason

To side with the "Protestor" I mean Rioters and are upset when police are involved..

Sorry these people are animals and if I had a business that was being destroyed, I would fully want the police to get involved.

[DFW]

15. The song is over 50 years old

“But when you go talking about destruction
“Don’t you know that you can count me out”

But, then, it’s just a song, right?