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NPR is now defending looting
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:52 am
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:52 am
NPR
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Writer Vicky Osterweil's book, In Defense of Looting, came out on Tuesday. When she finished it, back in April, she wrote (rather presciently) that "a new energy of resistance is building across the country." Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of "law and order," and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.
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Can you talk about rioting as a tactic? What are the reasons people deploy it as a strategy?
It does a number of important things. It gets people what they need for free immediately, 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. That's looting's most basic tactical power as a political mode of action.
It also attacks the very way in which food and things are distributed. It attacks the idea of property, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head or have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss, in order to buy things that people just like them somewhere else in the world had to make under the same conditions. It points to the way in which that's unjust. And the reason that the world is organized that way, obviously, is for the profit of the people who own the stores and the factories. So you get to the heart of that property relation, and demonstrate that without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.
Importantly, I think especially when it's in the context of a Black uprising like the one we're living through now, it also attacks the history of whiteness and white supremacy. The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country. Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected. And also it provides people with an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure and helps them imagine a world that could be. And I think that's a part of it that doesn't really get talked about — that riots and looting are experienced as sort of joyous and liberatory.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:54 am to NYNolaguy1
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Vicky Osterweil
People need to loot her home. Let’s see how long she continues to defend looting then.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:55 am to NYNolaguy1
As always with these elitist fools, I hope they get some of that new, exciting “protest” on their homes and property and see if their tune remains the same.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 5:56 am to NYNolaguy1
Wow. Can you imagine being SO disengaged from decency and common sense?
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:01 am to OneFifty
Google it’s photo. It’s a tranny. The disengagement from reality is real.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:13 am to mauser
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Google it’s photo. It’s a tranny. The disengagement from reality is real.
Damn you. What is seent can not be unseent.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:15 am to NYNolaguy1
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Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring about real, lasting change in society. The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of "law and order," and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.
Her house next
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:16 am to RebelExpress38
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His house next
Corrected the pronoun
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:25 am to Dawgfanman
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That’s a man
Oh. My. That is most definitely a.........man.
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:26 am to NYNolaguy1
Uhhhh, at one point do we defund this useless propaganda arm of the DNC
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:33 am to NYNolaguy1
Let’s go loot her shite, see if she still feels the same way
Posted on 9/1/20 at 6:35 am to NYNolaguy1
If this MENtality continues to grow within our society, the purge will be real.
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