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Maybe if far-left ideologues don't want mainstream America to think they advocate riots and looting, they shouldn't write books praising riots and looting.
Just a thought. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting
Just a thought. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/08/27/906642178/one-authors-argument-in-defense-of-looting
And, no, I'm not advocating censorship. Quite the contrary. It's actually informative to see this view becoming normalized in far-left intellectual circles. Just as it is informative to see NPR interview the author with total deference and no pushback on absurd factual claims.
Looting isn't stealing property "by force," she says. It's a way of "attacking the idea of property."
This guy burned to death in a Minneapolis pawn shop was not mentioned: https://time.com/5869366/body-building-minneapolis-protests/
This guy burned to death in a Minneapolis pawn shop was not mentioned: https://time.com/5869366/body-building-minneapolis-protests/
Nor were the thousands of minority businesses destroyed in riots, the hundreds of thousands whose workplaces and jobs disappeared, or the millions whose neighborhoods have been made unlivable. @mtracey's reporting has been invaluable on this: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1287539171083485184
Vicky Osterweil argues that looting is "a powerful tactic that questions the justice of 'law and order' and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society." I'd like to see her explain that to Flora Westbrooks: https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/06/03/black-owned-salon-burned-to-the-ground.html
