Why Is the Media Branding the Portland Train Stabber a Trump Supporter? He’s Not
When Jeremy Joseph Christian was accused of fatally stabbing two people in a hate crime against Muslims in Portland on Friday, the media quickly branded him an alt right Trump supporter.
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By Ian Miles Cheong | 1:14 pm, May 28, 2017
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When Jeremy Joseph Christian was accused of fatally stabbing two people in a hate crime against Muslims in Portland on Friday, the media quickly branded him an alt right Trump supporter.
But the reality is far stranger.
Christian is accused of stabbing three men, two fatally, on a train in Portland on Friday after they tried to stop him from shouting anti-Muslim hate speech at two young women.
Local reports of the 35-year-old suspect describe him as a “known white supremacist.” The Portland Mercury and Portland-based Willamette Week published pictures of Christian attending the right-wing March for Free Speech on April 29 to push the narrative that he was a Trump supporter. Some twitter users, like the liberal conspiracy theorist @RVAWonk, even forwarded a theory that Jeremy Christian was “radicalized” by the alt-right.
Writing for Willamette Week, Corey Pein said he interviewed Christian during the march, and the alleged killer chanted the n-word and threw Nazi salutes. Pein writes that amid Christian’s rants about Jews on Facebook, he expressed support for Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein for president. The Willamette Week writer describes that as a “distraction” others will seize upon as they contradict the narrative of Christian as a real white supremacist.
While Pein says the organizers of the march “disavowed association” with Christian following the murders, it’s worth noting that they did a lot more than that: The marchers kicked him out of the march last month. Video footage shows a mixed-race group of marchers calling on police to remove him.
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When Jeremy Joseph Christian was accused of fatally stabbing two people in a hate crime against Muslims in Portland on Friday, the media quickly branded him an alt right Trump supporter.
Home Culture Wars
By Ian Miles Cheong | 1:14 pm, May 28, 2017
READ MORECRIMEPORTLAND
When Jeremy Joseph Christian was accused of fatally stabbing two people in a hate crime against Muslims in Portland on Friday, the media quickly branded him an alt right Trump supporter.
But the reality is far stranger.
Christian is accused of stabbing three men, two fatally, on a train in Portland on Friday after they tried to stop him from shouting anti-Muslim hate speech at two young women.
Local reports of the 35-year-old suspect describe him as a “known white supremacist.” The Portland Mercury and Portland-based Willamette Week published pictures of Christian attending the right-wing March for Free Speech on April 29 to push the narrative that he was a Trump supporter. Some twitter users, like the liberal conspiracy theorist @RVAWonk, even forwarded a theory that Jeremy Christian was “radicalized” by the alt-right.
Writing for Willamette Week, Corey Pein said he interviewed Christian during the march, and the alleged killer chanted the n-word and threw Nazi salutes. Pein writes that amid Christian’s rants about Jews on Facebook, he expressed support for Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein for president. The Willamette Week writer describes that as a “distraction” others will seize upon as they contradict the narrative of Christian as a real white supremacist.
While Pein says the organizers of the march “disavowed association” with Christian following the murders, it’s worth noting that they did a lot more than that: The marchers kicked him out of the march last month. Video footage shows a mixed-race group of marchers calling on police to remove him.
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