Democrat controlled NPR is rapidly backing away from their friendly interview of a pro-looting antisemite author

Only a Democrat could think that looting is ever acceptable in the US.  But NPR gave a very friendly interview with an author sho said that looting was a great tool for social change.

Vicky Osterweil, author of yes this is the real title In Defense of Looting, was interviewed by NPR.  In the interview she made a number of untrue claims which the NPR interviewer simply accepted.

She said:

“In terms of potential crimes that people can commit against the state, [looting is] basically nonviolent. You're mass shoplifting,” the activist said. “Most stores are insured; it's just hurting insurance companies on some level. It's just money. It's just property. It's not actually hurting any people.”

This is a typical Democrat theme, stealing from people is no big deal. Tell that to the businessman whose business is ruined.  But of course we can be pretty sure that if someone were to break into Vicky's apartment and steal her stuff she'd not be so sanguine.  The Democrat belief is that it's ok to steal from other people but not from Democrats.

Also breaking windows and doors is by definition violent.

She went on to say other factually incorrect things like:

• Looters don't target local businesses
• The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s wasn't non-violent because people like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rejected violence but because Blacks had to appease whites in the North.

She also basically declared that facts aren't true if they disagree with her political beliefs by saying:

“It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled into even leftist discourse: that the small-business owner must be respected, that the small-business owner creates jobs and is part of the community. But that's actually a right-wing myth.”

Either she thinks that local small businesses are staffed by robots or that they don't have any employees.  Further the government, which leftists like Vicky always says is infallible, points out that  49.2% of people with jobs work for a small business.

Apparently she's not a big fan of hard workers either because in her book she writes:

Rioters systematically attacked Korean businesses, and a television crew happened to be present for a gunfight between Korean store owners and Black rioters. But much as [1965 Watts, Los Angeles riots were] sometimes described as an anti-Semitic uprising, because Jewish businesses were frequently targeted for destruction, actual “anti-Korean” sentiment was contingent and largely beside the point. Instead, just as Jews were in 1965, Koreans in 1992 were “on the front-line of the confrontation between capital and the residents of central LA – they are the face of capital for these communities.”

That certainly sounds like she thinks targeting successful people is cool.  It also has bit of antisemitism and anti-koreanism in that it seems to imply that someone Jews and Koreans don't actually earn their money fairly.

We all know that NPR, funded in part by your tax dollars, would never go so easy on some white nationalist nutcase, nor should they.  But it's just one more example of how you can't trust anything you hear from the #FakeNewsMedia.

UPDATE: Someone posted one of the first pages in the book that endorses looting where it says that anyone who illegally copies the work is breaking the law.  Odd for a book that says looting is good.