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Posted on 08/29/2020 9:49:12 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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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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(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Talking about it on NPR sort of implies agreement, but maybe Vicky Osterweil should be the first recipient of a rioting mob visit
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.
I wholeheartedly agree. Don't want anyone to get hurt, but I bet she's gonna fight.
WTF is this author spewing?My god the left is truly insane.
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
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.
I look forward to NPR covering Osterweil's follow on book "In Defense of Rape".
No, this isn’t an ignorance issue.
These folks are just evil.
Formerly Willie Osterweil I believe.
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.
I hope the media celebrates my achievements when I stack up the bodies of commie terrorists like cord wood.
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.
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)
"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
Good - let’s go to his/their/ house and take what you need; should be okay.
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.
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.
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.
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