Posted on 09/06/2020 5:13:48 PM PDT by dynachrome
On Thursday, August 27th, the same day Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican nomination, National Public Radio aired an interview with Vicky Osterweil, author of a book called In Defense of Looting.
The white trans daughter of a science professor, Osterweil told a credulous NPR interviewer that looting was justified because it strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police, and also provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure. She added riots reveal how without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.
I was so sure the Osterweil book was satire a clever comic doing a Marxist Andy Kaufman routine that I bought it. Its not a joke! In Defense of Looting is supposed to be the woke generations answer to Steal This Book, another anarchist instructional published in an epic period of unrest. But the differences between the books are profound.
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We have yet to grasp just how truly evil Democrats have become.
Had to laugh at an interview with him/her where the question was what about the charge that looters are hurting local small business people, their own neighbors? He/she answered (I’m presuming with a straight face) that there was a small, independent bookstore which was untouched in the middle of a looted section of the city so obviously the looters were sensitive to the “little guy”.
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She added riots reveal how without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.
Well, that only works the first time. There is a very immature assumption that store owners will just restock out of their own pockets. A very wrong assumption. The businesses close. Leaving the only source of ‘free’ stuff, people’s homes. Who, law or no, have greater abilities to protect their things. And without police around, who’s to say, who was killed looting and who was killed in revenge killings. It’s a very slippery slope.
“I wouldnt bother to steal it unless I was out of toilet paper.”
Or kindling...I guess that according to those who back the book, it would be OK to light that kindling while it’s still on the shelf of the book store...
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