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[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

First thing I'd loot if I was a thief.

[–]Froglich 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Judged the bookstore by it's facade.

Their loss...

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe they all use Kindles instead. They'll be back when they need toilet paper.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

the hardware store also is pristine

and no one stole any workboots

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I also saw that at Reddit, but with a title that doesn't assume that all of the looters were black (as they weren't) and that their main aim was 'looting', not ransacking: Looters decided not to break into one specific store

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been watching the videos and I do see a few white faces. It is hard not to notice though that even though the demographics of the US and South Africa are swapped, all the looting has been one particular demographic, whether or not it's a minority demographic.

I think we might be slaves to our genetics more than we feel comfortable admitting. It's interesting watching my niece grow up, someone who has had almost no contact with either parent -- that only happens to 4% of children. She has personality traits like my brother. That couldn't have been learned. Her environment, as a girl, was totally different. It's fascinating, poor thing though. Imagine neither of your parents wanting you.

And I don't know if you've noticed but people don't get smarter the more they know. In fact they just get less intelligent as they get older. Back when I was in my 20s I knew everything, now I don't know shit. That's last sentence is a joke, but the point is real. Dumb kids turn into dumb adults. You can't fix stupid.

So I'd say it's not 50/50 nature/nuture but more like 80/20, and that may be optimistic.

I don't think it's racism you don't go down a dark alleyway with a black man. I don't think it's sexism women can't get drunk alone. Lofty ideals have to be set aside for reality.

Alternatively, I may have just been reading too much debate alt right. The black people in my life, which is only like 4 people total, have all been really awesome people. 5 if my plug was black, but I think he may have been Hispanic

[–]fschmidt[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Evidence of non-black looters?

[–]filbs111 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ransack seems appropriate. Perhaps you can have looting that might not qualify as ransacking if people do it very carefully and tidily, but is this that?