Some people say I have kind of a dark outlook on stuff. On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:28 AM Dennis Bratland <[email protected]> wrote:
> That "Cascadia (independence movement)" Wikipedia article really goes out > of its way to censor any mention of the white supremacist connection to the > Cascadia movement. E.g. > > > http://crosscut.com/2015/07/hate-filled-zone-a-group-of-white-racists-wants-a-nw-secession-a-vile-dream-with-deep-historic-roots/ > > Seems like anybody today who says "I don't need the Federal Government, > they never did anything for me" is probably white, middle class and > comfortably privileged. Having no Justice Department to force reform on the > Seattle Police Department wouldn't make any difference to the white people > of the city; the problems with the police department weren't affecting them > to begin with. I'd have a different attitude if the people of Seattle had > been clamoring to clean up police abuse and it was the Feds holding them > back. But Seattle was doing nothing and Justice had to sue to drag a > reluctant Seattle to do anything about it. Or take away the Federal > Government and the Washington is going to rush in and shut down the casinos > and everything else on the reservations. Tribal sovereignty, such as it is, > comes from Washington DC, not Olympia. > > I guess it's like when I hear a phrase like "America First" I can't help > but think of Charles Lindbergh's fascist enablers. Cascadia triggers the > same reaction from me. It sounds nice at first, but under the surface it > looks ugly., and it's got some old connotations that are hard to forget. > It's like a nice way of saying "states rights". It makes me think of people > who want to return Oregon to a whites-only state, or Seattle to the > whites-only city it was originally founded as. > > Just saying. > > Dennis > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Lane Rasberry <[email protected]> > wrote: > > (not cc'ing analytics) > > Thanks Bruce. I talk regularly with > <http://www.cascadianow.org/> > and have been asking about their capacity to be a nonprofit outreach > partner for the wiki chapter. > > I will raise this issue with them, because perhaps they can help develop > the article. > > yours, > > > > On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi WMF Analytics, > > > > It would be interesting to know where all this traffic is originating. Do > > we have a way of tracking back the origin of Wikipedia pageviews to > > particular sites or pages? > > > > It would also be interesting to get a geographic picture of where this > > traffic is originating. > > > > Pine > > > > Pine > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:45 PM, SounderBruce <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Since Election Day, they've increased from 900/day to over 273,000 > > > <https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en. > > > wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&range= > > > latest-10&pages=Cascadia_(independence_movement)> > > > . > > > > > > -- > > > *Bruce Englehardt / SounderBruce* > > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > > > > -- > Lane Rasberry > user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia > 206.801.0814 > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
