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Vicky Osterweil: In Defense of Looting (Hardcover, 2020, Bold Type Books)

Looting -- a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods -- is one …

Review of 'In Defense of Looting' on 'Goodreads'

The author equates looting and property destruction with Marxism, saying "without police
and without state oppression, we can have things for free" and also states that "Ownership of things" - not just people - is "innately, structurally white supremacist."

She continues to opine that nonviolent protest is "the product of a series of sellouts and silencings". The only partially valid point is that protest is usually ignored by the media, but looting is always reported.

I can say I read the first chapter, but then dropped this like drek immediately after. The author seems to be in hiding, with her tweets "protected" - I guess that's a type of "Ownership" she can get behind. My recommendation is avoid this book like something even worse than COVID-19.