NPR's racial grievance site promotes hardcore Marxism

It's unclear how much federal money flows to NPR. NPR maintains it gets 3% of its budget from the public, while others say it gets up to 25%. Whatever it gets, that's more than taxpayers should be paying.

In 2013, NPR launched Code Sw!tch, a race-based site that publishes articles from a racial victim-centric perspective.

That's how NPR ended up publishing "One Author's Argument 'In Defense of Looting,'" as part of its "America Reckons with Racial Injustice" series.

In the interview, Osterweil explicitly defends "The mass expropriation of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot," which she distinguishes both from "Property [being] stolen by force" and from "a home invasion." She also challenges the term "Looting," claiming that it's a "Highly racialized word" because the British took it from the Hindi word for "Spoils."

Looting is a good thing, Osterweil argues, because people can help themselves during times of scarcity.

Taxpayer-funded Code Sw!tch helps promote Osterweil's Marxism by providing a useful hyperlink for Osterweil's next sentence: "The very basis of property in the U.S. is derived through whiteness and through Black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country." The NPR-provided link goes to a 1993 Harvard Law Review article by Cheryl Harris entitled "Whiteness as Property."

Again, it's NPR that provides the links in the article, which go to leftist economic theorizing.

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