[artichokegrower]

Try to loot my business and they will be deemed corpses

[null and void]

If they can riot, why can’t we rally?
If they can loot, why can’t we shop?
If they can burn, why can’t we earn?
If they can slay, why can’t we pray?
If they can throw Molotov cocktails,
why can’t we throw cocktail parties?...

[AAABEST]

Oh good, press-commies think they own the English language... again.

Words like "looting," "thugs" and "animals" have outlived their usefulness.

[BenLurkin]

So, the LA Times thinks it shouldn’t report looting unless there actually is looting occurring.

[Kudsman]

When the non looting looters come for the press, will anybody be around to save them? Maybe more importantly, will anybody even want to save the lousy propagandists?

[old curmudgeon]

The idiot who wrote this trash should visit the dictionary.

There are several examples given and all of them have to do with UNLAWFUL taking.

[existentially_kuffer]

The black racists or the white racists are looting? Pls clarify?

[freedumb2003]

“Undocumented property transfer.”

[Cold Heart]

OK, you got me. I thought this was satire.

[windsorknot]

Please do not use the word, “journalism” when describing the LA Times. It would be highly inaccurate and misleading to do so.

[pilgrim]

Just an advance on reparations!

[A Navy Vet]

"loot
/verb: gerund or present participle: looting

"steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot.

"police confronted the rioters who were looting shops"

[SpaceBar]

The action is fine, the word however is unacceptable.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Here are some good synonyms, but probably none of them are sanitized enough.

Loot —verb
looting (present participle)
steal goods from (a place), typically during a war or riot.
“police confronted the rioters who were looting shops”

synonyms
plunder · pillage · ransack · sack · raid · rifle · rob · burgle · steal from · maraud · ravage · devastate · lay waste to · wreak havoc on · vandalize · gut · strip · fleece · clear out · despoil · depredate · spoliate

[glennaro]

The LA Times publicly exposed their systemic racism when, during the LA riots in the early 1990s, they refused to call a black thug a "thug".

It's clear they haven't changed ... the LA Times is racist to its core.

[Menehune56]

So I'm guessing this would be out:

B - Burn
L - Loot
M - Murder

[mowowie]

OK LA Times i’ll remember that thank you..

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“Because of the racial connotation and history of the word”

What race are you connotating? Sounds like you’re bigoted.

[windsorknot]

Whatever you do, don’t call a spade a spade.

[RoosterRedux]

Looting is just an advance on reparations receivables.

[davius]

So...’peaceful’ protesters will be shot on sight?