loot (n.)
“goods taken from an enemy, etc.,” 1802 (in Charles James’s “Military Dictionary,” London, which defines it as “Indian term for plunder or pillage”), Anglo-Indian, from Hindi lut, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram “booty, stolen property,” from PIE *roup-tro-, from root *reup- “to snatch” (see rip (v.)).
LOOTICS, Ind. A term in India to express a body of irregular horsemen, who plunder and lay waste the country, and harrass the enemy in their march. They may be compared to the Hulans of Europe and other free-booters.
LOOTY WALLOW, Ind. A term of the same import as Lootics.
[James, “Military Dictionary”]
loot (v.)
“to plunder; carry off as loot,” 1821, from loot (n.). Related: Looted; looting.
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Basically, EVERYTHING IS RACIST. Just saying someone commits a crime is a criminal is racist.
This is the Hobbes vs. Locke debate enacted on our streets. Hobbes is being proven the more accurate of the two as to human nature.