USA 2020 Elections: Thread

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Joe Biden and his Left Socialists Fully Endorse Rise of Black Theft
Gangs Engaging in Rampant Looting
No wonder Biden-Dem's net approval rating are lowest of any "President" ever.


As US Retailers Struggle Against Smash-And-Grab Flash Mobs, Liberals
Blame "White Supremacy"

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/11/29/as-us-retailers-struggle-against-smash-and-grab-flash-mobs-liberals-blame-white-supremacy/
https://twitter.com/activeasian/status/1461499370646372354
https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/1463202977695485957
https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/r_0618mbr.pdf

Americans are facing a new type of crime wave that got its start in
the mad liberal laboratory, where the utopian notion that going soft
on criminals is going terribly awry. While threatening the traditional
brick and mortar shopping experience with extinction, and making
communities a living hell, the left needs to stop trying to reinvent
the wheel.

Apparently unwilling to wait for Black Friday discounts, roaming gangs
of young men are descending on retail outlets and pharmacies in flash
mobs, clearing out the store shelves in a matter of seconds as clerks
look on helplessly.

    $100k in handbags 👜 stolen at a Louis Vuitton store near Chicago!
pic.twitter.com/jaElFgbkWO
    — Asian Crime Report (@activeasian) November 19, 2021

In one pre-Thanksgiving raid, about 90 individuals stormed a Nordstrom
outlet in Walnut Creek, situated in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Members of the masked mob pepper-sprayed one employee, and assaulted
another with a knife before making off with an estimated $100,000 in
merchandise. Many of the looters made their getaway in some 25
vehicles parked out front.

Disturbingly, as this sort of mayhem unfolds in major cities across
the country, liberals seem more preoccupied with determining how to
define the criminal acts.

Lorenzo Boyd, PhD, Professor of Criminal Justice & Community Policing
at the University of New Haven, and a retired veteran police officer,
is just one academic who seems more obsessed with semantics than
digging to the root of the problem.

    “Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or
urban dwellers are doing something,” Boyd remarked in an interview
with ABC7 news channel.

    “We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the
exact same thing.”

And by “other people” it is abundantly clear who Boyd is referencing.

    It’s looting. Just like there were riots in Kenosha, not just
protests. https://t.co/trvUHxsCHU pic.twitter.com/nmdUTg6IXT
    — Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) November 23, 2021

Martin Reynolds, Co-executive director of the Robert C. Maynard
Institute of Journalism Education, invited listeners to compare the
current wave of flash mob thefts to the fallout from Hurricane
Katrina, when many marginalized New Orleans residents, the majority of
them Black, were labeled looters for stealing from local businesses.

    “This seems like it’s an organized smash and grab robbery,”
Reynold said, speaking about the current phenomenon of flash mobs.

    “This doesn’t seem like looting. We’re thinking of scenarios where
first responders are completely overwhelmed. And folks, often may be
on their own,” he said.

While both academics do make some valid points, there is a risk of
liberals getting trapped in a game of semantics that eventually leads
to social disaster. More on that in a moment. At the same time, the
radical progressives wish to ignore the fact that the primary reason
for these crimes happening at all is because they went soft on crime.

Back in 2014, the Democrats in California passed ballot initiative
Proposition 47, which legislates that theft of less than $950 in
merchandise is considered to be a nonviolent misdemeanor. In other
words, such cases are rarely prosecuted. The repercussions of such
stupidity should not have been hard to predict.

Prop. 47 led to a rise in the larceny theft rate of about 135 per
100,000 residents, an increase of close to 9 percent compared to the
2014 rate, according to a report by the Public Policy Institute of
California. Police Chief David Swing, president of the California
Police Chiefs Association, responded, saying that the PPIC’s
conclusions “are consistent with what police chiefs across the state
have seen since 2014.”

But for store owners in California and elsewhere, there is no need for
special reports. The damage from the shortsighted legislation is
abundantly clear.

“Theft in Walgreens’ San Francisco stores is four times the average
for stores elsewhere in the country, and the chain spends 35 times
more on security guards in the city than elsewhere,” reported the San
Francisco Chronicle, discussing just one of the myriad casualties of
Prop 47.

    Experts caution use of 'looting' in describing rash of Bay Area
smash and grabs https://t.co/dQfftRG84T
    — ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) November 23, 2021

Compounded with the problem of a legal system that is increasing
willing to let criminals walk, a confab of writers, agitators and
academics are more inclined to see the ‘poetic justice’ of young
marauders clearing out stores in coordinated flash mobs.

Last year, during the street protests in the wake of George Floyd’s
death, a Chicago Black Lives Matter organizer called looting in the
Windy City “reparation” for past crimes committed against Black
people.

“I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci’s or a Macy’s or a
Nike because that makes sure that that person eats,” Ariel Atkins
screamed at a rally outside the South Loop police station.

    “That’s a reparation,” Atkins said.

    “Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have
insurance.”

But even before George Floyd had become a household name,
self-described agitator Vickie Osterweil had penned a book entitled,
‘In Defense of Looting,’ provided an apology for the act of looting
before it was cool.

Beginning by explaining that the word comes from the Hindi, lút, which
means “goods” or “spoils,” Osterweil (who wrote the book under the
name ‘Willie Osterweil,’ apparently at a different stage in life) goes
on to argue that the idea of property in the United States is “derived
through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of
slavery and settler domination of the country.”

Funny how many of the oppressed and downtrodden of the world are
willing to be consoled by Gucci bags, Samsung televisions and Nike
tennis shoes. But I digress.

Osterweil goes off on a massively contradictory spiel, somehow
equating the theft of property with liberation from the “White man’s
world.”

“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,” she says. “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.

How looting and stealing could help a person “imagine a world that
could be” it is difficult to imagine, but the left must do better than
merely coddling and apologizing for the criminals in their midst. More
than just midterms are at stake.