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.
Food desert: a situation resulting in a lack of healthy food options caused by Democrat regulations against both 1) new business owners setting up shop, and 2) police protection of businesses from armed robbery.
One author is a liar, callous and inhumane towards people in general. There is nothing to justify the riots and looting. Period.
The huge difference is that the profits stay local and recirculate in your own community rather than go of to other states to be inverted in the offshore global community.
America first, last, and always. Screw the Obama crap.
“food desert”
That’s the sort of dishonest word construct that could only find purchase in academia.
The author is at the midpoint of the brain desert!
“food deserts” exist because people in those communities embrace crime as the dominant livelihood and lifestyle.
It’s not really that communists believe their own lies.
It’s that they don’t acknowledge, or perhaps even understand ontologically, the existence of truth.
I thought this was Babylon Bee again. NPR is out to destroy satire.
National Putrid Radio
Dear author: IT AIN’T YOUR/THEIR FRIGGIN’ STUFF!!!!!
wasn’t looting, it was, according to the left, nothing more than an ‘Uncompensated retail experience” for the store
“A business being attacked in the community is ultimately about attacking like modes of oppression that exist in the community. “
this is why they invented 00 buckshot in a 3 inch package
Now we see why objectivity is seen as a tool of white supremacists and part of the “systemic racism” in the USA.
Maybe I should write “In Defense of Shooting Looters.” If nothing else would be more coherent.
The author is an idiot.
The small business owner helps keep money circulating IN the community, and it provides for the commercial tax base of property taxes for support of essential government in the community. The small business owner multiplied spawns other investment and economic opportunity IN the community. Larger businesses are more likely to invest, and provide jobs, where there is (or nearby) a healthy small business community than in an empty rural plain. The author is an idiot.
Destroy the small business community and you’ll see larger companies leaving, as is happening in many places now where the rioting and looting is going on. The author is an idiot.
The thief becomes your slavemaster.
If writing honestly, Natalie is one more ignorant twit.
Many of those small businesses she does not care about were created by the owner investing his/her life savings. The owner frequently spends 12 - 16 hours a day running that business. They frequently can not afford to buy replacement insurance because they lose so much money to theft.
No, Natalie, many of those businesses are never coming back because the former owner is ruined financially.
In all seriousness, this is the exact same brand of Neo-Marxism that the Nazis embraced: State support of croney Corporatism. Only state sponsored corporations and other businesses could exist and operate in Nazi Germany. Everyone else had to close up shop, namely the Jewish family owned businesses. We're not fighting mere Marxists in our midst today, we are fighthing true Neo-Nazis. And I can't stand g*dd*mn Nazis!
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.
This crap might go over amongst the feral, spear-chuckingl tribes in the deep, dark jungles of Africa, but it sure as hell ain’t gonna fly here in America. It ain’t there “stuff” to freely help themselves to anytime they want.
If we ever get to a point where this author’s argument and “logic” are persuasive to a majority or substantial minority of our fellow citizens, this country is effectively over. This is pure Bolshevism, something that many of us had hoped Reagan/Thatcher/JP2 had defeated a generation ago. Sadly, it appears that they only dealt Leninism a 30-year setback. It’s back, and it’s ugly.