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To me, it undermines the message of people demanding equality when their main goal seems to be stealing shit from people just like them. When someone puts up signs begging not to be looted because they can't afford repairs, you're not a fucking hero or a revolutionary. You're a piece of shit and you create enemies to your movement.
They would have more of a legitimate sounding argument if they just took food from stores and then gave it to food banks or something. When it is done to get free TVs (and people do take stuff like that) it rather undermines the message.
It'd be more legitimate sounding if yall stop pretending that the electronic section gets ravaged while grocery goes completely untouched. "Fuck the 237 people who grabbed some beef and diapers, run the footage of 4 people with tvs on loop for 2 years"
I have no idea what video footage you're referring to, I'm talking about the people that actually said they did that, you know the people who bragged about it on Twitter and Facebook because they're morons.
Congrats on explicitly ignoring the point to continue pretending that every part of the store but the TV section goes untouched.
I mean, anyone can put up that sign, though, that doesn't really mean it really has any bearing on reality.
I also don't really think that "whether or not they can afford repairs or insurance" is on the foremost mind of looters. Well, foremost, I would think "hey this is easy money" for the vast majority, or "hey fuck everything", maybe,
But I would also think that, in terms of political activism, you would want to target businesses which aren't equitable, and which are leeching things out of the community. Gentrified businesses, businesses which are just kind of, external to the community, businesses where the owner is just a real piece of shit, stuff like that, I think, would be more in the realm of political activism. You know, if you're doing any of that, then you would more likely want to target businesses that don't have insurance or can afford repairs, actually, because you'd be more likely to get those businesses shut down, or driven out of the community.