The New York Times, which for all its failures of the last few years is still the left’s flagship propaganda organ, wants you to know that shoplifting is just fine, as long as you’re doing it for the correct (i.e., leftist) reasons.
Leftists have been justifying theft for so long, they’ve got it down to a science. We were just treated to the spectacle of leftist voters in Virginia voting to disenfranchise and remove representation from fully fifty percent of the state, all in the name of “fairness” and “accountability.” They justify confiscatory tax rates with that same appeal to “fairness.” And now the Times is justifying shoplifting because, you see, it’s really “microlooting,” which is “an act of political protest.” All you have to do is find some name to rebrand some vice, and hey, presto! Now it’s a virtue.
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