The Return of the Riot Ideology

Consider the tragic fate of David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired police captain who was a pillar of the community in St. Louis. Dorn was attempting to prevent the looting of a pawn shop on Martin Luther King Drive when he was shot dead by one of the criminals. Dorn’s death, captured in a heartbreaking Facebook video recorded by a bystander, inspired nationwide mourning. An online fundraiser for Dorn’s family raised more than $200,000 in 24 hours. Dorn was remembered by the Ethical Society of Police, which represents the city’s black officers, as “the type of brother that would’ve given his life to save them if he had to” — and by “them,” they meant, the looters who killed him. The Associated Press reported,..

 

The black youth of St. Louis have lost a role model, and why? Because the riot ideology justifies looting (and arson, vandalism, and every other kind of criminal violence) as an expression of “social justice.” If you disagree with that, you’ll be condemned as a racist. In an appearance Monday on CNN, New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones defended looting as “symbolic taking” by black people who have been excluded from America’s “social contract.” In case anyone didn’t get that message, Hannah-Jones doubled down Tuesday in an appearance on CBS News, declaring, “Destroying property which can be replaced is not violence. I think any reasonable person would say we shouldn’t be destroying other people’s property. But these are not reasonable times.”

In reasonable times, some might say, Nikole Hannah-Jones would be locked up in a lunatic asylum, instead of inciting riots on TV, but she was far from the only one doing it. The Media Research Center compiled a remarkable video montage of media personalities defending the riots as “mostly peaceful” protests, including MSNBC’s Ali Veshi, who declared that the scene Friday in Minneapolis was “not, generally speaking, unruly” while standing in front of a burning building set aflame by the anarchist mob.

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