Author defends looting in NPR interview, says it gives ‘an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure’

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This story gives us an important idea and candid look of what goes on in the heads of some of the radical leftist Marxists.

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Author defends looting in NPR interview, says it gives ‘an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure’​

“Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police,’ the author claimed.​

By Adam Shaw

An author of a new book defending looting is sparking outrage after an NPR interview in which she said looting gives people “an imaginative sense of freedom and pleasure."

“Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police,” author Vicky Osterweil said in the interview. “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.” . . .

. . . “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,” Osterweil claims. “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.” . . .

. . . “But in terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, it’s basically nonviolent. You’re mass shoplifting. Most stores are insured; it’s just hurting insurance companies . . .

. . . The author appears to have little sympathy for local and small businesses destroyed by the criminal activity, claiming “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,” she said. . . .

. . . Hillsdale College Professor Ben Winegard, meanwhile, called the column “absolutely bats***.” . . .

. . . she has the absolute right to express these views and make her case. She should not be harassed," he tweeted. “However, the arguments are extremely poor and I’m shocked that NPR had her on for an interview.”
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Enormous public pressure helped bring about an apology from NPR eventually for giving this person such as this a platform.
 
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Thank goodness for FoxNews and other more alternative outlets, many of the conservatives on social media, and even probably some left-leaning people that pressured NPR into apologizing and admitting they were airing someone who was feeding us FAKE news (“In this case a book author with a radical point of view far to the left was allowed to spread false information,” McBride wrote”) and spreading an awful message enabling chaos while attacking private property that I quoted in the above OP article ("Osterweil claims. “The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness. . . ") while pushing another veiled leftist racist envelope.

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NPR issues mea culpa, says ‘In Defense of Looting’ interview ‘did not serve NPR’s audience’​

The interview was widely criticized​

By Paul Best

Writer sparks outrage over defense of looting​

Turning Point USA Rob Smith calls argument ‘absolutely ridiculous’ on ‘Fox & Friends.’

NPR issued a mea culpa for its publication of a much-criticized interview with the author of a new book entitled, “In Defense of Looting.”

NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride said in a newsletter Thursday that the interview “did not serve NPR’s audience” and was “wrong about recent events.”

“Publishing false information leaves the audience misinformed. On top of that, news consumers are watching closely to see who is challenged and who isn’t. In this case a book author with a radical point of view far to the left was allowed to spread false information,” McBride wrote. . . .
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This is quite funny. That person has actually received a lot of attention on Twitter before for her opinions.
 
Osterweil opened the interview with a contradictory explanation of what looting is.

“When I use the word looting, I mean the mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot. That’s the thing I’m defending. I’m not defending any situation in which property is stolen by force," Osterweil said.

Osterweil later discounted looting as harmless because stores are insured.

“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,” she said.
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I am sure many of those small business owners had little to no insurance.
 
The author, Vicki Osterweil, has a broken moral compass. Her views are the expressions of a moral relativist, who should hope that she does not run into another moral relativist with opposing viewpoints.
 
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I am sure many of those small business owners had little to no insurance.
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Yep.

And even assuming they do have adequate insurance with no deductable, those insurance costs by necessity get passed on to the rest of us.

These are not victimless crimes and for NPR to give a platform to someone that is floating that idea is unconscionable.
 
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Is she okay with them looting her property? It’s funny how she links property and whiteness when many of the victims were non-white. Maybe she should go and interview the victims who owned small businesses to see how they feel about it.
 
You’d have to be pretty heartless to feel sorry for the corporations that exploit the poor over the poor themselves finally getting some justice against the bourgeoisie.
 
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