Posted on 03/02/2024 9:06:44 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Washington Post writer Maura Judkis is under fire this week for a column in which she mocks shoplifting stories as the “moral panic” of a nation built on “stolen land.”
It is reminiscent of those who excused rioting in past summers “as an expression of power” and demanded that the media refer to looters as “protesters.” Now, the Washington Post is suggesting that it may be just desserts for a nation of colonizers and enslavers.
The prior day, the Post ran another column downplaying accounts of stores closing due to shoplifting even though employees blamed rampant shoplifting in San Francisco.
Judkis wrote a Friday piece entitled “The zombie CVS, a late-capitalism horror story.” The hook was another store being looted in D.C. Judkis matter-of-factly describes how
“Everything else that remains in the store in Northwest D.C., which is not much, is under plexiglass: Dawn dish soap, L’Oreal shampoo, MiraLax, a handful of Clairol root touch-up hair dye kits, flu season combo packs of DayQuil and NyQuil. The diapers are behind the counter. The Cetaphil and Neutrogena face washes are under lock and key. Other shelves, stretching entire aisles, are totally empty. “
The reason for those extreme measures is brushed over. Instead, Judkis uses the story to mock such coverage as “a horror story of Late Capitalism” in which “the empty CVS had somehow become a stand-in for all that is wrong with American cities — and liberals (and liberal democracy?) — in 2024.”
She then adds “America is a sticky-fingered nation built on stolen land, and its current moral panic is about shoplifting. It’s not just a worry in Columbia Heights. All over the country, from sea to shining CVS, there are concerns about petty theft.”
She dismisses the shoplifting as a “political talking point” despite many stories citing such crimes as the reason for closing stories in various cities.
She questions the real basis for such moves and claims that “in certain conservative circles, there’s a wild narrative about cities as terrifying hellholes of crime, theft and lawlessness. The bleakness of the D.C. CVS played right into this belief.”
The real story, she suggests, are the economic conditions leading to shoplifting.
Other journalists have made similar objections. New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones, has called upon journalists stop covering shoplifting crimes, even criticizing MSNBC’s Al Sharpton for his discussion of a viral video of a man who recently stole steaks from a New York City Trader Joe’s.
Writers like Hannah-Jones believe that reporters should actively suppress or dismiss stories on such crime to frame public opinion. It is all part of advocacy journalism. You can almost attribute it the denial of reality in “a late-journalism horror story.”
She’s a schnauzer.
The idiot knows NOTHING about business risk-taking, business models
or that you cant stay in business unless the bottom line exceeds the overhead.
Prices of goods are set to fit the business model so you can make a profit and remain in business.
Burnishing her credentials as an appropriately brainwashed lefty before the Turk starts cutting at the Post.
How could we steal the land when Indians apparently didn’t believe in owning land?
Education: George Washington University, BA in journalism, 2007; University of Southern California/National Endowment for the Arts, journalism fellow, 2011
Maura Judkis is a features reporter for The Washington Post, covering culture, food and the arts. She is a 2018 and 2020 James Beard Award winner, a 2019 Society for Features Journalism award winner, and her work has been honored by the Association of Food Journalists and the Virginia Press Association. Maura has appeared on local and international TV and radio, including MSNBC, CNN, PBS and Al Jazeera. She has also written for U.S. News & World Report, TBD.com, ARTnews, the Washington City Paper and the Onion A.V. Club.
An expert on soup is lecturing on capitalism?
Unless they are Mexicans.
Maybe if someone were to rob her, loot her home, steal her car, etc...we could then see how she feels about stealing what isn’t yours from others...
Pretty on the outside
uggggly on the inside
Typical bio of the most rabid anti-American crowd.
Judkis grew up in a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, Jim Judkis, is a freelance photographer and her mother is an art professor.[1][3] In 2007, she graduated from George Washington University with a degree in journalism and a minor in art history.[2] While in college, she wrote for the University’s paper The Hatchet, reviewing museums and concerts and providing cultural commentary.[4]
Most of America was purchased from Indians, not stolen. In Connecticut the deeds and contracts still exist. However, in 1675, King Phillip’s war began with several colonies destroyed and the inhabitants killed or enslaved. Conquest in war is not “stealing”. Those who complain about America and its history can’t show an example of a nation that was more just, more deserving, more ethical, than the United States, because there is no such nation.
Aside from announcing one’s pronouns, few phrases cause me to dismiss the remainder of the speaker’s pontification more than “stolen land”.
Egad. That biopic is like a pressure cooker to steam in the anti-Americanism.
Of course she is mentally damaged in this respect.
She got it through her mother’s milk, underwent 18 years of brainwashing and indoctrination from her parents (and probably her mother’s hand-picked private schools) and then went directly into someplace like George Washington University, which is as much a Leftist Fever Swamp as they come, I am told.
Any person that would condone thievery is at heart, a thief.
‘Washington Post writer Maura Judkis is under fire this week for a column in which she mocks shoplifting stories as the “moral panic” of a nation built on “stolen land.”’
Washington COMPost writer Maura Judkis writes COMPost and is under fire this week for a column in which she mocks shoplifting stories as the “moral panic” of a nation built on “stolen land.”
There, fixed it
Maura Judkis is straight from Central Casting.
Why doesn’t Maura move to a Socialist Country like Iran where she will be free to do nothing.
I have to laugh every time some nit wit goes on about “stolen” land,
ALL land has been claimed, conquered, settled and stolen many times over since ever.
Sadly true. These are people who think of themselves as intellectually 'woke' and as champions of social justice - while they are actually elitists of privilege who have disdain for the same families whose great grandfathers and grandfathers fought and often died on foreign soil to preserve their freedom.
Europe as we know it wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for the people of the USA (who she clearly has disdain for) who fought and gave their lives to save Europe, stop the Holocaust and liberate those in Nazi extermination camps.
She might say she doesn't like Capitalism, but she married an attorney, went to an expensive university, and I'm sure she doesn't volunteer her work at the WP.
That is one of the fundamental flaws in the Left.
They believe that you can have personal freedom without financial freedom.
You can’t.
Personal and Financial Freedom are inextricably intertwined and cannot be separated.
A planned economy is financial tyranny, period.
And financial freedom is linked to the ownership of private property. Land, houses, cars, clothes, you name it.
At a fundamental level, the Left does not believe in private ownership, and therefore, private wealth, with one exception: Their Own.
And if there were ever a characteristic of the Left that causes corrosive and destructive mental illness in them, it is their inability to square that circle that cannot be squared: their own personal property and wealth.
To them, it is just fine if “Have-Nots” people steal from the “Haves” people, as long as isn’t THEM who are being stolen from.
And they are so dense, they don’t understand that merchandise in a store is personal wealth for the person who owns or runs that store.
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