So this 17-year-old "kid" looted from a shoe store, and Slate blames it on... *drumroll* SWAVEWY!
And let's see if the shoe store can be blamed for not genuflecting enough to BBBlacks. Apparently, looting is presumptively justified.
Who owns this shoe store? Do they treat Black customers well? Hire Black employees and treat them well? Were these shoes made ethically or in a sweatshop somewhere? Have you heard anything that implies that this shoe store doesn’t have insurance that will allow it to recover, unlike the people whose deaths led to this uprising, and those who have died while it is taking place? And are … you … OK? Did you not take the time to read about the, y’know, 400 years of oppression that have led kids like your son to steal shoes?
And
This botched experiment of a nation owes your son so much more than a pair of sneakers.
You're born owed something because you're black. Let's not talk about who owes whom reparations if we're going to get into the business of race-based reparations. I am pretty sure vast amounts of reparations would be due from one group to all the others, for the astonishingly high rates of rape, murder, and drug dealing.
Are we expected to believe that the son performed some kind of woke check before looting the place?
Also "Have you heard anything that implies that this shoe store doesn’t have insurance that will allow it to recover" ... congratulations, your son just made that insurance more expensive. When's the bit where your son pays for the costs he has wilfully inflicted upon others?
Fundamentally, though, it's racist reasoning. A white person did something unjustified to a black person, therefore all black people get to do whatever they like to any white person.
The best part is that this also actively helps big corporations to destroy small businesses because the corporations can afford to pay the premiums in the moment but not all small businesses can. Eventually after the competition is dead, quasi monopolistic market will reap all the benefits.
So this 17-year-old "kid" looted from a shoe store, and Slate blames it on... *drumroll* SWAVEWY!
And let's see if the shoe store can be blamed for not genuflecting enough to BBBlacks. Apparently, looting is presumptively justified.
And
You're born owed something because you're black. Let's not talk about who owes whom reparations if we're going to get into the business of race-based reparations. I am pretty sure vast amounts of reparations would be due from one group to all the others, for the astonishingly high rates of rape, murder, and drug dealing.
Are we expected to believe that the son performed some kind of woke check before looting the place?
Also "Have you heard anything that implies that this shoe store doesn’t have insurance that will allow it to recover" ... congratulations, your son just made that insurance more expensive. When's the bit where your son pays for the costs he has wilfully inflicted upon others?
Fundamentally, though, it's racist reasoning. A white person did something unjustified to a black person, therefore all black people get to do whatever they like to any white person.
Insurance is like gambling at the casino, the house dictates the rules and they're designed that the house always comes out ahead overall.
That one store may not pay for everything immediately. But everything will be paid for by the stores in the end.
The best part is that this also actively helps big corporations to destroy small businesses because the corporations can afford to pay the premiums in the moment but not all small businesses can. Eventually after the competition is dead, quasi monopolistic market will reap all the benefits.