And for that, it was featured and promoted in an NPR article out last week called "One Author's Argument 'In Defense Of Looting'".
But as the Post Millennial puts it: "This book promoting riots is a number one new release on Amazon, a mega-corporation that benefits every time a local shop gets torched."
The book celebrates rioting and looting at a time in the United States where many business owners have seen their life's work go up in flames and innocent civilians have been assaulted or mortally wounded defending their property.
Osterweil, who looks as though he/she'it is barely twenty-something, was interviewed on NPR last week to make his/her/it's point that looting is actually "a redistribution of wealth" and not theft. He/She/It argues that property damage is the same: just a "way to reapportion assets which he/she/it deems necessary in an unequal society."
Citing a socialist macro view and the goal of some type of ridiculous property re-distribution, he/she/it calls the riots a "mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot."
Osterweil argues: "Looting strikes at the heart of property, of whiteness and of the police. It gets to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected." He/She/It calls looting "basically nonviolent" and claims that it provides for "poor people who want to live a better life."
