Posted on 09/03/2020 4:19:23 PM PDT by rintintin
National Public Radio is scrambling to do damage control this week after it promoted the views of a dangerously ignorant pro-looting activist who is also a gigantic anti-Semite.
In late August, NPR’s Code Switch department published an interview with Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting. In the interview, Osterweil was given free rein to spout several major falsehoods, drawing little to no pushback from NPR.
“This Q&A with a provocative author did not serve NPR’s audience,” the newsgroup’s public editor, Kelly McBride, said Thursday. “On top of being wrong about recent events, the author’s characterization of the Civil Rights Movement is a distortion and oversimplification.”
She adds, “In the interview, the author made several statements in support of her hypothesis that could be easily fact-checked.”
And, boy, what an interview it was.
“[Looting] gets people what they need for free immediately,” Osterweil told NPR, “which means that they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage — which, during COVID times, is widely unreliable or, particularly in these communities, is often not available, or it comes at great risk.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
“In terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, [looting is] basically nonviolent. You’re mass shoplifting,” the activist said. “Most stores are insured; it’s just hurting insurance companies on some level. It’s just money. It’s just property. It’s not actually hurting any people.”
NPR has been looting my paycheck for years to fund their anti-American propaganda, so it’s no surprise to me that they would have been supportive here.
Trump should have defunded NPR by executive order within 10 minutes of being inaugurated. Maybe 10 minutes after the next inauguration?
Why be sorry? These are just sorts of people that accurately represent the DemocRAT Party. Wear it with pride. You own it anyhow.
So we can go loot her house because she has homeowner’s insurance, then.
Published by Bold Type Books
https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/vicky-osterweil/in-defense-of-looting/9781645036678/
Are they ok with people looting this book from bookstores?
If Barnes and Noble carries it (I don’t know if they do) can you take it home for free?
This “Vicky” person is actually a man isn’t he?
I thought Miss Vicky here looked kind of masculine. Well whatayaknow:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/surprise-surprise-vicky-osterweil-author-of-in-defense-of-looting-used-to-be-willie-osterweil/
Well, there is a precedent.
The writer of in defense of looting has the audacity to charge for her book. I want one free so I can focus on life without money.....how libtardating. Live beyond the capitalist constraints, free, free, free.
"Osterweil. That's a German name, isn't it?"
I’m not sure that’s something he can move about, like military funding for the wall or FEMA funds for an unemployment stipend.
She loots because she’s not attractive enough to get a man ro provide for her???
Or does she just write this stuff because she’s dumb?
What are Vicky’s pronouns?
That’s a weird looking guy.
When NEWSWEEK calls them out ... even other liberals think this is bad.
NPR and New Book’s Indefensible Defense of Looting | Opinion
https://www.newsweek.com/npr-new-books-indefensible-defense-looting-opinion-1529017
Talk about the monumental idiocy of these people. Who does she think ends up absorbing the cost to the “insurance companies”.
It’s not female.
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