Looting stories are being used to deflect from the situation at hand.

[ScreamingMeemie]

It is my opinion that they are pushing the looting stories to cover the reality that it is the have nots who are suffering. It was those without transportation who could not leave...It was those who depended on city buses who were told they weren't running...it was those with inadequate shelter, inadequate means of survival, who are at the heart of this. The rage I feel is growing stronger with each looting story I hear...and each survival story that isn't told. :(

[etherealtruth]

1. Certainly ...

If the looters can be characterized as "bad people" we can then feel OK that tragedy struck them ... they deserved it, after all :sarcasm:

The more "we" vilify the victims, the better we can feel, because this proves really bad things don't happen randomly or to good people ... Ask Pat Robertson, he'll back me up on this :sarcasm:

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. You know it...How many times here in Michigan have we heard a story

of a killing in Detroit that "may have involved drugs". :(

[etherealtruth]

9. ...or "what did they expect in THAT neighborhood?"

Well, gee they were extremely poor and they expected to work and raise their children the best they could.

[iamjoy]

2. I Am Not Hearing That Many Looting Stories

but, anyway, I think looting for food and water from a store is understandable. Looting for luxuries and consumer goods is not.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Our local ABC affiliate was all looting all the time from 5-7 AM

today.

[rodeodance]

6. several looting stories have been on the air. I do not know how wide-

spread it was. difficult to gauge when they show the same footage.

[RPM]

5. my wife made an interesting observation yesteray...

when they showed the line at the superdome - "the only white people are in the uniforms"

pretty much sums up who got left behind....

[rodeodance]

7. yes, she is right on. It is the poor, the disabled, the weak that had

to go there.

[rodeodance]

8. portapotties now at the dome. see this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4505219

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. An illustration of American racism broadcast via CNN worldwide

You think people would be more embarrassed to blame the victims.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. And yet, it even happens right here, on DU.

:( Very sad day indeed.

[wli]

10. psyop: trying to demonize the victims to reduce sympathetic response

Very transparent. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the looters on camera were paid actors.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. While also throwing in stories of chauffer driven limos driving people

to safety. sigh...