{"id":2032,"date":"2020-06-05T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/destroying-property-is-too-violence-and-its-obscene-to-say-otherwise\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:03:00","slug":"destroying-property-is-too-violence-and-its-obscene-to-say-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/destroying-property-is-too-violence-and-its-obscene-to-say-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"#Destroying property is too violence \u2014 and it\u2019s obscene to say otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Destroying property is too violence \u2014 and it\u2019s obscene to say otherwise<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Breaking things and burning buildings is enjoying a vogue it hasn\u2019t had since the late 1960s or early 1970s.<\/p>\n

Arson and looting are a perennial feature of urban unrest, but they have been pretty universally condemned for decades now \u2014 until the last week or so.<\/p>\n

Forced to choose between criticizing the George Floyd protests when they get out of hand and defending the indefensible, activists and writers on the left have been tempted into the latter.<\/p>\n

Their inventive, if completely absurd, contention is that the destruction of property doesn\u2019t qualify as violence and, at the end of the day, isn\u2019t such a bad thing, maybe even a salutary thing.<\/p>\n

The Pulitzer Prize-winning architect of The New York Times\u2019 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, argued in an interview: \u201cViolence is when an agent of the state kneels on a man\u2019s neck until all of the life is leached out of his body. Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence. To use the same language to describe those two things is not moral.\u201d<\/p>\n

The editor of The New Yorker, David Remnick, favorably quoted a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network, who explained, \u201cWe don\u2019t have time to finger-wag at protesters about property. That can be rebuilt. Target will reopen.\u201d<\/p>\n

An article in Current Affairs asserted that app<\/a>lying the word \u201cviolence\u201d to the destruction of property risks \u201cmaking the term conceptually incoherent and \u2014 much more important \u2014 conflating acts that do very serious physical harm to people with acts that have not physically harmed anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s obviously true that what happened to George Floyd is sickening, and that harming a person is much worse than damaging property. But that doesn\u2019t mean both aren\u2019t acts of violence and both aren\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n

Property is not an abstraction. It gives people shelter and a sense of protection and stability. If the property is a business, it often represents years of sweat, tears and dreams.<\/p>\n

For someone to come and destroy it in a spasm of rage or gleeful looting is felt as a profound violation, and understandably so.<\/p>\n

In Minneapolis, rioters ransacked the bar of an African-American former firefighter named Korboi Balla. He had invested his life savings in the place, which he\u2019d planned to open any day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d Balla said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working so hard for this place. It\u2019s not just for me, it\u2019s for my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

But hey, it was just property.<\/p>\n

Those who minimize looting often explain that businesses have insurance, so what\u2019s the big deal? But Balla wasn\u2019t insured, and neither are many small businesses.<\/p>\n

How about chain stores like Target? They have more resources. But there\u2019s still a cost. They may decide it\u2019s too risky to open back up in a neighborhood where a store has been looted. And these businesses employ black people and have black customers.<\/p>\n

It is ahistorical to assume that urban areas easily bounce back from the large-scale destruction of property. Cities like Newark, Detroit and Washington arguably never recovered, or took decades to fully recover, from the riots of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Finally, there isn\u2019t such a clear distinction between harming property and people. Some shop owners will try to defend their livelihoods or hire security guards to do it. We\u2019ve seen business owners beaten and a security guard at a St. Louis pawn shop shot and killed by people who, presumably, started out \u201conly\u201d wanting to destroy and steal property.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to be cavalier about someone else\u2019s property. The former ESPN NBA reporter Chris Martin Palmer celebrated an image of a building burning in Minneapolis, tweeting, \u201cBurn that s\u2009-\u2009-\u2009- down. Burn it all down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, when rioters got close to where he lived, Palmer lashed out at them as \u201canimals.\u201d<\/p>\n

He subsequently explained that he doesn\u2019t endorse the destruction of property and supports peaceful protest. That\u2019s the right position, although one that is now, incredibly enough, controversial.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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