A couple morning thoughts on looting.

Instead of thinking “why would people do this to their own neighborhood” or “their own Target”, perhaps it is worth thinking about how parts of that neighborhood, or those stores, don’t belong to demonstrators at all.

Think about how much infrastructure, housing, commercial real restate, is dumped into urban environments with the subtle demand it be used by residents, because - in its placement - it has obliterated choice, and the possibility of meaningful local ownership.

The target, the autozone are symbols and protectors of a hypermanaged, oppressive environment - even passively, even if they also employ the same people who would wreck or steal from them. This is not an unresolvable contradiction.

I think about this in the face of comments about being in support of demonstrators - but not looters. It seems to me they are both responding to the same oppressive state, one which values an economy over lives, and which values white lives over black lives.

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