CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS STUFF? – OVERNIGHT:  Political correctness isn't getting better, it's getting worse.  Apparently anticipating major losses in next year's midterm elections, and an increasingly hostile public, the proprietors of wokeness are rushing to squeeze in every retrograde article of absurdity that they can before November of next year.  Get this one.  From College Fix: 

A pair of academics are warning against use of the term “looting” to describe recent retail thefts in San Francisco.

According to KGO, some area police departments have been using the word regarding incidents at mainly high-end outlets like Louis Vuitton and Burberry. The thefts have resulted in about $1 million in losses.

On Saturday, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said the stores had been “burglarized and looted.”
But also this past weekend, San José Police Department Public Information Officer Christian Camarillo specifically pointed out he wasn’t going to use “looting” to describe the crimes. He referred to them as “organized robbery.”

KGO Race and Social Justice Reporter Julian Glover notes the thefts technically are not “looting” according to California Penal Code. Looting entails thefts during a “state of emergency, local emergency, or evacuation order” as a result of a natural or manmade disaster.

Although no emergencies have been declared in the Bay Area, many of the recent thefts occurred after the Kyle Rittenhouse “not guilty” verdict. The University of New Haven’s Lorenzo Boyd said however that the “massive, organized smash and grabs” were happening before the Rittenhouse verdict, thus any connection to it is a “false equivalency” and an attempt to “politicize crime.”

Boyd also claimed that “looting” typically is used when “people of color or urban dwellers are doing something.”

COMMENTS:  Reminds me of the radical Obama administration's attempts to label terror attacks as "manmade disasters."  He who controls the vocabulary controls the nation.  The left has learned that lesson very well.  Propaganda classes at colleges are labeled "studies" classes.  One scholar told me that if you dropped the word "studies" from college-class descriptions, you could instantly improve the colleges.  And giving students of certain groups higher grades on tests than others are given is called "race norming."

Jesse Waters of Fox suggested, tongue in cheek, that the looters be labeled "reparation hunters."  Good choice.  And burning a city could be called "urban cleansing." 

November 23, 2021