At first I thought this was a parody of news media outlooks. However, once I saw the article [ABC News] I realized it was not a spoof; it’s very real.
The San Francisco news desk of ABC7 actually has a position called “race and social justice reporter” who claims the term “looting” is a politically and culturally incorrect way to describe the looting that has been taking place over the past several days. However, I’m not exactly sure of the journalist’s qualifications for reporting, because he also claims not to be able to see the race of the people doing the actual looting. WATCH:
… In order for the ideological leftists to continue advancing their insane ideology, they have to pretend not to know things. Race and social justice reporter Julian Glover is certainly proving that point by pretending not to see who is doing the robberies.
so what they are trying to say is that there isn’t an emergency situation in SF??? ha. they aren’t looking then.
In six months we’ll have obongo and his lovely wife Mike complaining about how SF has become a “luxury goods desert” that is depriving the “kids” of the urban retail therapy experience.
They may want to read the written laws that define the term “Illegal Alien” for proper use.
The failure of big tech, MSM and others is to continue telling people something completely contradictory to what people see. Even some very indoctrinated people eventually say wait a minute what you are saying is false. They do things more subtly as well but have gone full totalitarian, Orwell described, with censorship, phony language and lies.
Yes! I just posted “The Sky is Green Theory” above. I should have scrolled down.
Okay, how about common criminals or common thieves? Maybe gutless should be a descriptor.
San Francisco should be walled off (at least 50 feet high) and all those who support this stupidity can be held within the confines of the walls. No one/nothing in, no one/nothing out.
Ya think THIS is the very reason Pelosi just bought a mansion in Florida? Even she’s getting out of the kitchen (wonder if her oversized/overpriced freezer is going to move across the country as well).
No, no. We cannot allow them to keep changing our language. They control our language to control us, and we have ceded so many words/phrases to them over the years. Let’s all stand against their attempts- every single time!
What they are doing is double plus ungood.
I wonder if Gov. DeSantis knows Pelosi will be retiring down there? He shouldn’t let her in.
Absolutely. I don’t think it is illegal (yet) to discriminate against corrupt politicians.
Not sure she can be kept out legally, but surely there is some stinky way to discourage her residence.
Pelosi and her henchmen RUINED beautiful SF. They should not be granted the ruination of Florida also
In Jupiter Island, no less. Where both the Trump sons just bought nearby properties. I hope she knows that she’s not going to be able to walk the streets in red Martin county. Should’ve gone further south, Nanzi.
Katrina thefts of “water, food, and supplies”
Oh, and TV sets.
Those were “essential” goods! The folks had to watch the news to learn where the PO-leece were at
Didn’t some pundit come for a euphemism for looting after Katrina? She got a lot of blowback for that one; I remember Rush having some fun with her comments.
Blue jeans
So? Use street terms. That would be an interesting dilemma.
It’s not as though two (or more) can’t play the same game.
You mean like “hit a lick”?
Wokesters / lefties always try to ban words they find inconvenient. Years ago, they used to try to ban the words “communist” and “socialists.” Their brilliant criticism was that those words were mere “labels,” and no one should be guilty of “labeling.”
They are now trying to ban the word “woke,” on some specious grounds or other. (Lefties’ arguments are always specious and hypocritical.)
And now this genius tells us “looters” is a word that means “black thieves, black mobs of robbers.” Therefore, the racist word must be banned. But hold on there, Baba Louie. Just as “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument” (as Alice pointed out), “looters” doesn’t mean “black thieves.” So your lying, hypocritical, racist premise is invalid.
Love the Wonderland reference, that part of the Humpty Dumpty episode really needs more exposure in this day
It’s just unfortunate that that a certain demographic loots; we’re not supposed to criticize them.
I agree that “looting” is a poor word choice. We are witnessing class war so this is more accurately described as pillaging.
“PILLAGE. The taking by violence of private property by a victorious army from the citizens or subjects of the enemy.”
I disagree, Barry’s Bolsheviks are not mass murdering Kulaks for their farms, yet.
When they’re encouraged and protected by the government, media, and politicians, it’s been called “legal plunder” aka socialism. 😉
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
– Frederic Bastiat, Physiology of plunder, 1848
“Attention, Undocumented Shoppers; there is a Free Sale in all aisles. And don’t forget our Get One/Get One specials. Thank you for Un-Shopping at Louis Vuitton’s!”
The Prophet Orwell:
“Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year.”
“He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed – and all this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in real life.”
“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself anything that carried the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.”
“Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not omnipotent and the party is not infallible, there is need for an unwearying, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of facts. The keyword here is BLACKWHITE. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to BELIEVE that black is white, and more, to KNOW that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.”
“To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife …”
“Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston’s job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.”
“This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning “to quack like a duck.” Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning.”
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
LOOTERS.
This is one hell of a comment. Well said and keep it up. I like.
The piece appears to admit a link between looting and black folks … funny thing those stubborn facts …
So “looting” is no longer permitted by The Party. Understandable since as AOC explained last summer they are just “shoplifting bread to feed their families”, being as they are underprivileged and all. And Louis Vuitton now sells groceries too, like Walgreens. Bet you didn’t know that. And speaking of Walgreens, while they are shoplifting bread they might as well grab some percocet and oxycontin too. I suppose in SF “street shi*tter” is out as well, they are now “Social Justice Defecators”, affirming the something something.. Black Lives.. something. The End of Reason. Clown World man
Wow, that was so important to distinguish, like jumbo vs super size.? It must just be the sound of the word that they don’t like. And you notice that even in a catastrophic event like a hurricane, they first tell you that that’s when the word is technically to be used, but then follow up with the looters during Katrina “for crimes of survival,” (got to have that Diet Pepsi!!). From Merriam Webster:
Essential Meaning of loot
1: something that is stolen or taken by force
After raiding the town, the soldiers helped themselves to any loot that they could find.
The thieves got a lot of loot in the robbery.
2a: something appropriated illegally often by force or violence
the thieves’ loot
Watch for this definition to be ‘tweaked’ in the coming weeks. Dictionaries are as pc as it comes.
That’s precisely why I bought a dictionary printed in 1956. I want the real definitions. Not the smarmy thought police versions.
The SF Mayor, London Breed, has also been repeating another FALSE narrative. She has been repeatedly insisting that the LOOTING is being committed by “outsiders”. “People coming into our community from outside”. Uh huh … just keep telling yourself that Mayor Simpleton
She’s right; San Fran doesn’t allow negroes.
We don’t allow them DARKIES to live here. So she does agree it is DARKIES doing the looting.
She’s not wrong. Those youths are not from her neighborhood. They are outsiders. Her community, her neighborhood, her peeps, they live in the big fancy houses. They can shop at the Louis store. The looters are outsiders.
This is the type of semantical garbage leftists spend their time toiling over while the bloody city around them collapses.
The city already set the table with their “$999 Special!”…..no prosecution for anyone stealing items under $1000. So, what is the logical next step? Organized gang rush theft, ideally while the store is open. Who can count how much stuff an individual takes in that scenario?
We learned long ago that there are rules in life. Basic fundamental rules that keep societies from anarchy or worse. The leftists seek to bend these beyond repair in order to meet some narcissistic idealistic platitude only their tribe thinks can be achieved. When the walls come tumbling down, they stammer and sputter like children, incredulous at what reality just shoved in their face.
Yes, if you outright tell people that they can steal up to $1,000 worth of merchandise from a store and that nothing will happen to them if they do, “gosh, golly, gee!” What happens next? And then you see that they’re not stopping at $999. Why should they?
And this isn’t “a black-people problem.” If you say this to a society, anyone in that society is going to seize the opportunity. Of course they will. I need a new table saw that costs $600. I’m going to march right into that hardware store and wheel it out the front door and load it into my truck, knowing that no one will stop me and that no one will come to arrest me. Why should I buy it?
Not only do these loons stutter, stammer, and become incredulous about the matter, they blame everyone else.
They desperate to maintain the “Mostly Peaceful Protest” sham, ergo they have to avoid the word “Looting” because that means they’re officially calling those “Protests” RIOTS.
Always good to refresh oneself on the nuances of negro crime.
It’s not just “negro” crime, Dopey. If you tell people that you won’t arrest them or prosecute them for shoplifting or other forms of theft, then they will seize the opportunity and steal you blind … while you watch. Anyone is gonna do that.
I don’t steal.
Period.
I live deliberately at a higher standard.
And my needs are always met.
ALWAYS.
This.
Nope. Not anyone. At least that’s what the cold, un-woke statistics say. If you were to somehow defend against crime by negroes there would be significantly less crime everywhere. In their population of 40 million- which by the way increasingly celebrates criminal behavior-there are fewer than 5 million intelligent and socially well balanced individuals. The rest are outright criminals or criminal sympathizers who occasionally are exposed for what they believe (OJ jury, etc).
But the day might very easily and quickly come when “red and yellow, black and white” people are doing the looting – because San Francisco law enforcement officials have made it quite clear to everyone that the laws will not be enforced. “What happens next” is then merely an inevitable consequence – and it won’t change back until these people wake up and start doing their jobs again.
Please don’t reflexively blame this on “black people,” even if everyone you see doing this right now has black skin. Even “nice [white …] people” don’t always act “nicely” when the opportunity plainly exists to do otherwise. That’s why even the toniest clothing stores usually have Sensormatic® systems installed at the front door . . .
This is a direct consequence of telling everyone that the laws won’t be enforced. It will not end until they make it clear that lawbreaking will actually be punished, and when people observe that what they’re saying is now true again. Until then, “the mice will play.” And eventually, insurers will stop issuing and honoring policies.
So you are admitting it is DARKIES doing it right now. I bet you won’t see a lot of RED, YELLOW and WHITE people doing this.
Darkies? Just stop, that is ignorant and unbecoming.
He makes a valid point. He not once said don’t acknowledge what you see but don’t think it will be contained if not remedied. And, he’s right. This is now. It will grow and get worse.
I wonder if Baghdad Bob is on the faculty of the J-school that teaches the skills to be a “race and social justice reporter”?
The approved term is:
“Undocumented Shopping”
Now I’ve heard of all! Guess black on black murder isn’t murder just assisted death according to this social Justice reporter! Man Cali has truly gone off the cliff!!!
Drugs.
Who are you going to believe…me or your lying eyes?
Forget Covid, the BLACK PLAGUE is destroying the USA.
The Sky is Green Theory. Trying to make us believe something that isn’t so.
Excellent summary here:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/11/post-truth-world-rittenhouse-case-edition/
LOL as this is some funny stuff for sure. The term looting is racist as the truth is that it is blmers doing the looting. We must not state the obvious.
Next they will be telling us it is just a bunch of white people in Black Face doing this.
Thankfully, delusional idiocy like this and many, many other similarly bizarro world examples are forcing a majority of the populace to confront the insanity of liberal governance.
I may have said it here before, but my son works in International Emergency Management in operations for a national retailer. IN THEIR REPORTING of robberies taking place, they are not allowed to say what race the perpetrator is. Insane.
Wait until the insurance companies start telling the retailers we are not covering you if you are in these shit hole cities.
Larceny intermediators
CBS is hiring for this type of position, if interested.
https://careers.viacomcbs.com/job/Studio-City-Executive-Producer-Community-Impact-(MULTIPLE-LOCATIONS)-CA-91604/800015400/
Interesting distinction. Since there is no “emergency” for the criminals, does it carry a stiffer penalty than if they were seen as victims of a natural disaster? Because this was well organized, and a much greater amount of “stuff” was stolen, this becomes a job for the organized crime unit to handle?
If they’re criminalized by being called burglars, and not given sympathy for being homeless due to a hurricane, earthquake, etc., why keep the random amount of $950 as the benchmark for prosecution?
Does anyone really care what happens in this SHIT HOLE cities anymore? The people vote for these Communists into office and they get what they deserve. This is only the beginning as to what these low level IQ people are going to do, once you let them get away with it, you can never stop it. For all I care, they can burn these cities to the ground.
Once they hollow out the cities, it’s on to more fertile ground. If you can’t believe the pace of what is happening now, don’t be shocked. Don’t think other places won’t collapse, the same idiots that have taken power and encouraged this in the cities are going to migrate. Wash, rinse, repeat.
This immediately brings to mind the words of the British Writer, Theodore Dalrymple.
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Attempt to alter the English language so you may tell the foolish sheep people some warm and fuzzy fairy tale. The people of California deserve what they get if they find this acceptable.
There will be many false prophets….
“A rose by any other name is still a rose.”
Every business in California should be packing up shop to leave.
In fact, as a form of protest, they should post signs in huge letters saying as much.
Let’s see how long communist ideology alone keeps California afloat.
The mentally ill California liberals moved to Portland & Seattle and are ruining those cities. White Liberals should live with the rest of their Democrat-Communist Coalition members which are Muslims,criminals, sexual deviants, Blacks,Browns, etc
Make sure these White Liberals do not get to live with us.
Didn’t CA make it legal to “shoplift” up to $999.99?
The L-word is like the B-word. If it did not exist, it would have to be invented. Or in this case, reinvented. There is a taint that is associated with the word but that is only a problem because whites aren’t looting so it has become associated with the N-word.
There is a case for this to be called an Organized Robbery. The chaos associated with this not organic like in a natural disaster or riot associated with other events. So the question is if this is an ‘OR’, are they going to investigate it and treat it as such or will they just hand the few people caught with a misdemeanor and let them go (and the story die)? Who were the other people involved? How did they organize (hello Mark Zuckerberg) and if there were communications platforms used to organize this what should their punishment’s be? Do we need new RICO laws? These are the kinds of questions our Racial Justice reporter needs to cover; and yes, what did they look like?
Not looting. “Seasonal Haberdashery Changeout.”
I noticed they used “ smash and grab” quite a few times. That sounds childish. Looting sounds like something an adult might say. As for the color of the people committing the looting, it matters nothing. Thieves come in all colors, shapes, genders and age. BUT, being capable of making PREDICTIONS from a specific crime can be done through CONSISTENT observations…thus, a truth can be determined.
Who is the bigger grifter?
The college-educated “reporter” or the people of a certain ethnic group doing the looting en masse?
Big tech love looting of physical stores, they want everything online ecommerce.
Just as with medical science… it is now lawyers and English majors at 10 paces running all professions in the US. Don’t like, change the definitions to the prevailing SJW mantra is the new norm.
When the food stores can’t stay open any longer because of no law enforcement, that’s when TSHTF. Watch, it’s coming.
All those businesses just need to move out. Shut it all down…they can all steal from Goodwill.
urban pickers.
Book stores are safe from democrat looters.
But they burn well for peaceful protesters.
The inability to call a spade a spade is not possible here. Theft, stealing, destruction of property aside, this IS looting. Just a tangled word salad to protect the usual suspects.
Only allowed to be called peaceful protesters.
Crimes of survival?
Jean Valjean they’re not.
Our history is full of examples of criminal chaos, anarchy, etc. The wild west, “Safety Committees”, Katrina, roof top Koreans. When good people start shooting it is a bloody mess and evil wishes it was never born. When there is a lack of law enforcement, and liberty is threatened, the people will step up. Very sad events….praying hard.
This “reporter” takes the cake.
She’s calling them VANDALS!
They wiped out the whole store.
Here’s the “vandals” in action:
Who steals everything that isn’t nailed down? Politicians. So, these must be gangs of politicians legislating, and since they’re black it must be the CBC.
Technically, they are correct. “Looting” is generally defined as taking advantage of a disaster (natural or otherwise) to make off with things that do not belong to you. What we are seeing here is better defines as “smash-and-grab” thievery on a mass scale.
The Black looters are themselves to blame for any racial component that has become attached to the term ‘looters’. Word meanings and associations tend to reflect reality.