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"Writer Vicky Osterweil's book, In Defense of Looting, came out on Tuesday. When she finished it, back in April, she wrote (rather presciently) that "a new energy of resistance is building across the country." Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of "law and order," and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.
I spoke with Osterweil about this summer's riots, the common narratives surrounding looting, and why "nonviolence" can be a misleading term. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity."
It’s a really disgusting viewpoint but it’s not that surprising when you consider that there seems to be a push to go from capitalism to socialism. No such thing as private property. I think that is what is truly behind the lefts’ silence on rioting and looting and now even the condoning of such things. Vote for Biden and see if this theory is correct. Scary thought.
Her quote here supports this theory.
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It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that's unjust. And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.
"Writer Vicky Osterweil's book, In Defense of Looting, came out on Tuesday. When she finished it, back in April, she wrote (rather presciently) that "a new energy of resistance is building across the country." Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of "law and order," and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.
I spoke with Osterweil about this summer's riots, the common narratives surrounding looting, and why "nonviolence" can be a misleading term. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity."
Let's see how Vicky Osterwell will react if we loot her place? I'm sure she'll do very fast a Chris Palmer moment.
I would dearly love for her to experience that.
a dose of her idiocy:
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.But there's also another factor, which is anti-Blackness and contempt for poor people who want to live a better life, which looting immediately provides. One thing about looting is it freaks people out. But in terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, it's basically nonviolent. You're mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people.
I had to delete NPR from my news feed recently, which normally contains a broad variety of sources. They were getting more radical and unhinged by the day.
Normalizing rioting and looting.... is an absolutely insane concept. If this author thinks rioting is somehow part of a movement, I suggest she speak with some of the families of the dead people to recalibrate her moral compass. Or watch the sickening footage of the 92 riots of people dying in the streets, having been mutilated by those in the 'uprising.'
But this is interesting:
"Another trope that's very common is that looters and rioters are not part of the protest, and they're not part of the movement."
This author is saying that there is no difference between protesters and rioters? We have been told over and over again that they are two distinct categories.
"This author is saying that there is no difference between protesters and rioters? We have been told over and over again that they are two distinct categories."
that caught my eye as well. that's certainly not what we hear from the leftists here.
She is off the rails. The perverse and callous phrase "It's just property" has been echoed all summer. It has come from politicians, media, intellectuals, and random people on the street. It's NOT 'just' property. Property means something. It's not just an arm of 'the system.' It is what people build, how they feed their families, how neighborhoods are nourished and sustained. People are traumatized when their property is burned. They are plunged into economic devastation. Why doesn't the left get this?
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