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.”
Every square inch of occupied land on earth was “stolen”. The Europeans who came to the Americas acquired the land via the accepted real estate transfer protocols of the natives; conquest.
Yes they all want revenge against those who never did anything to them.
Imagine the logic that some poor innocent person should be stolen from because of perceived historical mistakes by a nation?
The answer to this is to put their damn criminal asses in jail.
We need federal laws passed to stop practices like sanctuary cities or legalizing stealing.
Ooh ... late stage capitalism and stolen land. Two classic tells signifying that the author has absolutely nothing competent to say and is resorting to ritual incantations.
Oh good.
I guess all thieves are free to steal whatever they want from Maura Judkis.
Apparently she’s all good with that.
(Another idiot with a useless journalism degree.)
Gee......I wonder if she votes Democrat?
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Slaves were shipped aboard ships.
Ships were
- made of wood
- sailed over water
- used sails made of cloth -type materials.
“To be fair,” all leftists, liberals, progressives, socialists, social-Democrats, race hustlers, etc., should be banned from having, using, and, or wearing:
- boats
- ors
- sails
- ships
- wood
- water
- cloth
and probably wind, and hand tools, and iron, silver, gold, copper, brass, bronze, and nickle.
Clocks and watches, too.
Sand . . .
“ors” - > oars
[sigh]
Columbus was an immigrant and brought diversity to North America.
Writers like Hannah Jones are one of the reasons newspapers are dying.
She thinks she's special - and that HER values should be pushed on subscribers. In fact, she's a friggin idiot and her managing editor should explain to her that her power comes from the paper buying ink by the train load - NOT the other way around. Then if she doesn't catch on to reality she should be fired.
Washington Post writer Maura Judkis is under fire for mocking
shoplifting stories as the “moral panic” of a nation built on “stolen land.”
Some Democrat Party members on the White House staff, have a track record of shoplifting . . .
Warning label on every plan and product of the left:
"We Don’t Bear Responsibility"
- DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Feb. 2024
Warning label on every plan and product of the left: “We Don’t Bear Responsibility” - DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Feb. 2024
Looks like a clueless daughter of a wealthy white liberal ‘eltie’...
She knows ghetto/reservation talk quite well.
Hillary does that too - even carries a bottle of hot sauce with her...
Just what land on this planet hasn’t been “stolen” many times over?
The “stolen land” theme is being parroted by an increasing number of Leftist mouthpieces, suggesting coordination.
Why? To cast doubts into as many minds as possible as to the justification for DEFENDING your property when they come to take it “in the name of the People”.
The correct word is “conquered”.
“Stolen” gives a sense of furtive acquisition, subject to The Law demanding it be given up.
“Conquered” conveys a sense of “It’s ours now, and we will kill anyone who disputes that”.
Lol. There isnt a patch of land on Earth some folks wont claim was stolen over the course of history. In fact among Indians , the quest for land and power was every bit as bloody here before the British came, were defeated and the west was won.
The author thinks she’s clever. She’s not. She should educate herself (yes, I assumed her gender) on Indian (yes, I did not say Native American) culture so that in the future, she will quit assigning European values and concepts to Indians.
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