LA Times executive editor- the term ‘looting’ has a pejorative ‘racist’ connotation (solution, school)

[uggabugga]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/la-tim...mpression=true

now when i see the phrase ‘mostly peaceful protests’ i’ll understand that’s just a euphemism for ‘looting’

"One of the active debates we had over the past week was about the use of the word “looting” to describe the destruction of property," Pearlstein said. "The feeling among the black journalists at The Los Angeles Times who frankly educated the rest of us to the fact that looting had a pejorative racist connotation and that comparing it to the kind of behavior of the police and the kind of behavior that we witnessed really was a false equivalency and yet it was one that we were making as journalists if you picked up a copy of our paper."

[No_Recess]

He's right. It isn't looting.

It's the rightful reclamation of capital by the proletariat from the bourgeoisie.

[MPowering1]

It's product relocation.

[vkhmini]

Or what we used to call it when I was in middle school and wanted to boost a candy bar -- asset liberation.

[North Beach Person]

Solution to the "locked up hair care products" dilemma?

[WannaliveinGreenville]

No. It's called "smash, grab and burn" ..Watch Atlanta in the next few days....

[MissTerri]

Would it be more appropriate to refer to looting as breaking and entering, theft and vandalism?

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by vkhmini

Or what we used to call it when I was in middle school and wanted to boost a candy bar -- asset liberation.

We called it a five finger discount.

[Slater]

"Loot" spelled backwards is "tool", which applies to most of these idiots.

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by MissTerri

Would it be more appropriate to refer to looting as breaking and entering, theft and vandalism?

That's negative, so that would be a hard no.

Let's not cast aspersions on innocent people, Miss Terri.