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At the height of the 2020 riots, a book was published entitled “In Defense of Looting.” At the time I asked a bookshop in New York, which was prominently displaying the work, whether I could walk out with the book without paying. I was told not.
But a friend did download it and publish the work for free online before being served a copyright notice by the pro-looting book’s publisher.
Some of us had hoped that the madness of that summer had gone away. But this week we got a good reminder that for a part of the left the question of whether or not it is right to steal is still being mulled over.
The issue was raised on a New York Times podcast featuring the radical left’s current favorite podcast guest — Hasan Piker. For anyone unfamiliar with him, Piker is a nasty piece of work. He has claimed that this city deserved 9/11, has praised the terrorist group Hamas and happily describes himself as a Marxist.
In the 21st century it can safely be said that anyone who still calls themselves a “Marxist” is what we used to call “a slow learner.”
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Douglas Murray is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor of City Journal.