A WaPo media machine stenographer has decided to float this trial balloon. All that shoplifting that’s been going on shouldn’t be upsetting middle-class, white-bread supremacists. After all, their descendants stole all this land from someone else.
And if theft is a moral and historical tradition…
Do you know what the problem with capitalism is? It doesn’t want to sell stuff to people. Calling it “a late-capitalism horror story,” the Washington Post’s Maura Judkis might have just written the stupidest possible piece about Blue America’s state-sponsored shoplifting craze.
“Besides, there’s a Robin Hood mentality,” Judkis wrote, that allows thieves (and politicians and well-to-do white progressives) to “assume that a massive corporation can absorb the losses of petty thefts. Some shoplifters view it as a form of anti-capitalist social activism.”
Of course, Robin Hood stole from the government, so there is that (which WaPo’s scribblers would never condone). Still, a better point would be that this behavior, legalized by Democrat DAs, is doing as much or more harm to minority neighborhoods and the community than the Left’s white supremacy narratives. They squeak with pride about social justice, but in practice, the policy creates more crime and leaves the people they claim to protect with less of everything, including access and opportunity.
Blame Democrats
Democrats robbed them of an education and blamed white people. They defunded their police forces, and when crime rose, they blamed white people. They legalized theft, and when it drives businesses out of minority neighborhoods, they blame white people in cities with hives of oppressive, racist police officers whose leaders have been Democrats for so long that few, if any, living can recall it ever being any different.
Blame white Democrats for that, but not just. Many urban plantations have significant blocks of minority voters (mostly Democrats) and minority elected officials (also Democrats), and things have not improved. Some might say they’ve gotten worse with more drugs and violence.
Sure, you can steal stuff, skip bail, and not go directly to jail. You can get a job working for a gang or other organized crime, lifting sums just large enough to keep you under this soft-on-crime reparations radar, but there’s still a price.
Unlike most who live there, the local pharmacy can leave when unprosecuted crime becomes untenable. That business lost a lot of merchandise, but the community lost jobs and convenient access to everyday needs.
The only tradition anyone needs to consider is that, alongside all the other troubles, Democrats are responsible for that, too.
