Examining the deleterious impacts of modern urban culture on the American social fabric and its future prognosis.
‘Target stole from my ancestors’
Assuming one is endowed with the preferred ethnic heritage, why is their retail theft not criminal?
The BLM lady in the video below explains that, in fact, shoplifting consumer goods from Target is not a crime because “there’s a whole ‘nother socioeconomic piece that I’ve never had access to” as a black woman.
In fact, shoplifting is “resourceful as f**k,” she notes.
She continues: “Target enslaved my ancestors year [sic] ago.”
(Fact check: The first Target store opened in 1962 in Minnesota, a non-slave state which first became a state in 1858, just five years before the Emancipation Proclamation. Needless to say, there is no connection whatsoever in the historical record between Target and chattel slavery in the United States.)
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The gentleman interviewing her — an evil white man who can’t relate to the “resourceful” urban penchant for shoplifting, she makes sure to point out in her sophistic apologetics — politely tries to explore the moral slippery slope she has created when she blanket green-lights retail theft from random corporations that didn’t even exist in the days of slavery and ostensibly have nothing to do with the practice that was outlawed over 150 years ago.
“At what point do we not uphold any values… If we steal from Target, then we steal from CVS, then we steal from Walmart, then the Walmarts leave, and then all we have is corner stores… when we run out all these large businesses.”
With no one left to steal from, where’s sustenance going to come from?
The reason doesn’t take.
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The argument she falls back on, in the end, is that black people don’t steal from black-owned corner stores. [citation needed]
"Stealing from stores is not a crime. Target enslaved my ancestors."
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 13, 2024
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Let’s imagine a hypothetical (but impossible) scenario in which every retail outlet somehow becomes black-owned.
Who in their right mind believes the subculture that has been conditioned for decades to believe it has a sacred right to pillage anything and everything because of crimes committed against their ancestors hundreds of years ago, real or imagined, would suddenly have some collective moral epiphany and realize that, actually, robbing hardworking people’s livelihoods for their personal benefit is wrong?
What becomes obvious is that there is no bottom of the barrel in terms of grasping at straws to justify what is obviously unjustifiable.
The thing you’re not allowed to say out loud, even though everyone with common sense knows it to be true, is that the culture at the most basic level is broken.
It wasn’t just broken by the people to whom it belongs; this was a society-wide program of fanning the flames of racial resentment, denying any personal agency, discouraging self-sufficiency while encouraging self-entitlement, and fostering an “anything goes” attitude among a certain subset of the population as some sort of atonement for historical wrongs.
