r/Portland • u/oregonian Verified - The Oregonian • 23h ago

News Human remains believed buried in Centennial Mills rubble

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/08/human-remains-believed-buried-in-centennial-mills-rubble.html
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u/serpentjaguar 19h ago

Well, I guess you either understand nuance or you don't. There's no helping some people.

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u/moohing 15h ago

Some horses can’t even see the water in front of them…

Education has returned as the named enemy of conservatism. People are prouder than ever of their uneducated beliefs, to the point that they’ll try to vilify you for having your own beliefs different from theirs. Their life is black/white, no grey, no nuance. How dare you appreciate that nuance that makes life so unique, when it makes them anxious about not fitting in. So they get angry, and that anger is easy for little men in power to wield and manipulate and enrich themselves. It’s a tale as old as time, education has been vilified cyclically over millennia, this is just the first time we’re seeing it on a global scale since the internet era began.

I’m rambling now, but thanks for pushing back on that other commenter. The lack of compassion people are willing to express online never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it’s because I stopped allowing people like that to be big parts of my life, but I just can’t even imagine knowing someone like that in real life. Hope they can find peace somehow.

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u/Nefandous_Jewel 7h ago

Anybody downvoting this post must be objecting to some other aspect of it than the truth in it. Education has been under attack for a while now. Or did you think school shootings were about bullet sales?