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One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'
NPR ^ | 08 27 2020 | Natalie Escobar Twitter

Posted on 08/29/2020 9:49:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

SNIP

What would you say to people who are concerned about essential places like grocery stores or pharmacies being attacked in those communities?

When it comes to small business, family owned business or locally owned business, they are no more likely to provide worker protections. They are no more likely to have to provide good stuff for the community than big businesses. It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small business owner must be respected, that the small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.

A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. It is true and possible that there are instances historically when businesses have refused to reopen or to come back. But that is a part of the inequity of the society, that people live in places where there is only one place where they can get access to something [like food or medicine]. That question assumes well, what if you're in a food desert? But the food desert is already an incredibly unjust situation. There's this real tendency to try and blame people for fighting back, for revealing the inequity of the injustice that's already been formed by the time that they're fighting. SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: looting; protestors; riots
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To: Mariner

Pray for Peace. If peace cannot be obtained, load up on Dragons Breath.
61 posted on 08/29/2020 10:32:18 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Talking about it on NPR sort of implies agreement, but maybe Vicky Osterweil should be the first recipient of a rioting mob visit


62 posted on 08/29/2020 10:36:23 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: yesthatjallen

Not sure where she lives but it is well known amongst the Islamic community that she has disrespected the prophet many times and burned Korans.

63 posted on 08/29/2020 10:37:31 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba ("It's a lie. It's all lies.")
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To: from occupied ga
Talking about it on NPR sort of implies agreement, but maybe Vicky Osterweil should be the first recipient of a rioting mob visit.

I wholeheartedly agree. Don't want anyone to get hurt, but I bet she's gonna fight.

64 posted on 08/29/2020 10:39:10 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: yesthatjallen

WTF is this author spewing?My god the left is truly insane.


65 posted on 08/29/2020 10:53:19 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Bayard

I don’t think they are lying. They just have no idea the difference between usa and north Korea or any other sh!thole place in the world. One of the saddest things I have ever read


66 posted on 08/29/2020 11:01:35 AM PDT by genghis
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I was one of the lone conservatives at the at one of the colleges that I took classes at. The had a bunch of Iranian “revolutionaries” talk to us about how bad the Shah was. This was before the hostages were taken. Much of what they said seemd off key to my sensibilities at the time It made me wonder what would actually happen if they took over. Now we know... and what the Shah provided was far better than what they got after they took over.


67 posted on 08/29/2020 11:02:13 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: DoodleBob
Thats a dude. Former name is Willie or something. This person is clearly mentally ill. YET, NPR thinks this person with no credentials, no intelligence, spouting off nonsense, SOMEHOW deserves to have praise heaped on them.

I look forward to NPR covering Osterweil's follow on book "In Defense of Rape".

68 posted on 08/29/2020 11:05:05 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: genghis

No, this isn’t an ignorance issue.

These folks are just evil.


69 posted on 08/29/2020 11:05:58 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: dfwgator

Formerly Willie Osterweil I believe.


70 posted on 08/29/2020 11:06:00 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: DoodleBob

Oh look another leftist liberal attempting to keep black people on the mental plantation! Justifying law breaking by people of color isn’t helping them. Keeping them in victim-hood mentality and imprisoning them through marxist rhetoric. The evilness of her book stands in stark contrast to hope.


71 posted on 08/29/2020 11:07:32 AM PDT by EBH (It is time. We need to take the upper hand. The Election time will be too late.)
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To: yesthatjallen
And what if we were to fight back, against those the author describes as “fighting back”?

I hope the media celebrates my achievements when I stack up the bodies of commie terrorists like cord wood.

72 posted on 08/29/2020 11:08:20 AM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: DoodleBob

Doesn’t look too good on her Amazon site.

Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor, and agitator and a regular contributor to The New Inquiry. Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Rumpus, Real Life, and Al Jazeera America. She lives in Philadelphia.

https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Looting-Riotous-History-Uncivil/dp/1645036693/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=in+defense+of+looting&qid=1598724589&sr=8-3


73 posted on 08/29/2020 11:10:44 AM PDT by EBH (It is time. We need to take the upper hand. The Election time will be too late.)
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To: NativeSon
I hope the media celebrates my achievements when I stack up the bodies of commie terrorists like cord wood.

Ma Deuce says "when do we start?" Ma deuce likes bunched up rioters referring to them as a group target (or so I'm told - naturally I have no firearms of any sort - honest)

74 posted on 08/29/2020 11:15:28 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: EBH
From the official approved reviews:

"Osterweil debuts with a provocative, Marxist-informed defense of looting as a radical and effective protest tactic...a bracing rethink of the goals and methods of protest." ― Publishers Weekly

75 posted on 08/29/2020 11:19:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Good - let’s go to his/their/ house and take what you need; should be okay.


76 posted on 08/29/2020 11:24:46 AM PDT by SkyDancer (~ Pilots: Looking Down On People Since 1903 ~)
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To: yesthatjallen

And this is the mush they are filling these protesters heads full of! It is an open and shut case this author is speaking terrorism! She legitimizing terrorism.


77 posted on 08/29/2020 11:26:33 AM PDT by EBH (It is time. We need to take the upper hand. The Election time will be too late.)
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To: EBH
Doesn’t look too good on her Amazon site.


78 posted on 08/29/2020 11:31:52 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: yesthatjallen

Heard this lady crying that since her brethren looted the local market and burned it down she would have no place to shop.

Golly gee, NPR. Report that.


79 posted on 08/29/2020 11:40:16 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: yesthatjallen

In many “food deserts”, regular supermarkets will be replaced by pre-paid, curbside or delivery only, since the stores can’t afford to have regular stores in areas where they suffer from high shoplifting, damage and spoilage rates by customers and employees, and regular armed robberies and assaults of the stores and customers.


80 posted on 08/29/2020 11:44:44 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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