Just the facts ma’am
By Patrick Van Roy On September 16th, 2020Study: Up To 95 Percent Of 2020 U.S. Riots Linked To Black Lives Matter https://t.co/DRMPqIS7wa
— The Troll (@TheCityTroll) September 16, 2020
ACLED is a nonprofit organization that tracks conflict across the globe. Its U.S. project that collected the summer protest data is supported by Princeton University. The project’s spreadsheet collating tens of thousands of data points documents 12,045 incidents of U.S. civil unrest from May 26, 2020 to Sept. 5, 2020. May 26 is the day after George Floyd’s death in police custody with enough fentanyl in his system to have died of an overdose if police had never touched him.
Another attempt to justify the unjustifiable. It’s pathetic.
So fake headline
https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/apple-helps-track-down-blm-protester-accused-of-firebombing-cop-cars/
I speak for all here in saying, good job, Apple!
George Floyd wasn’t murdered and BLM is a terrorist front group.
Tax blacks and white leftists. Economic justice now.
That’s a claim from the Federalist as opposed to a quote from the report?
The biggest losers are
The customers who ultimately will have less choice and or higher cost
The retail store owners, including families who put all their life savings into small businesses, and who never bought insurance because they couldn’t afford it
The neighborhoods and all who live there
The employees who lose jobs
The riots and the looting were an organized and thought out thing.
There is actually a book that you can buy called In Defense of Looting
Publishers Weekly here says that “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.”
The blurb on Amazon
A fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.
Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods — is one of the more extreme actions that can take place in the midst of social unrest. Even self-identified radicals distance themselves from looters, fearing that violent tactics reflect badly on the broader movement.
But Vicky Osterweil argues that stealing goods and destroying property are direct, pragmatic strategies of wealth redistribution and improving life for the working class — not to mention the brazen messages these methods send to the police and the state. All our beliefs about the innate righteousness of property and ownership, Osterweil explains, are built on the history of anti-Black, anti-Indigenous oppression.
What does that even mean? Marx was a political philosopher, some of whose stuff I’ve read. I don’t ever recall him speaking about looting.
Unintentionally funny, as are some of the other reviews and comments
Somehow I don’t think Osterweil would be so passionately supportive of ‘restorative looting’ if the goods being liberated were the contents of her home.