When Theft Becomes “Moral”: The Dangerous Rise of Extremist Media

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Complete moral breakdown gone mainstream. I was given a heads up about this New York Times podcast hosted by Najah Spiegelman. Basically, interviewing various different people on society at large and what’s going on. I didn’t listen to the podcast took a look at the transcript. She was interviewing interviewing. Well, the Marxist streamer Hassan piker Yeah Again, you go and you watch this or you listen to it or you read it whatever it may be It threw me off It really did in the sense that we have a situation where you have people that are becoming pretty popular with the

the Gen Z crowd out there, they’re selling out various different auditoriums. listen, I don’t have any quite frankly, I don’t have any problem with that. There was some people that were upset that they were trying to cancel Hassan piker and a speech somewhere. I am very much into that. I want to know where the idiots are. I’ve said that for a very long period of time. know, conservatives trying to cancel this guy is what he’s saying.

dangerous. That’s what they’re getting on basically in the entire podcast, they were justifying stealing. Justifying stealing. Basically, you know, with the killing of United Health Care Executive Brian Thompson was basically like that Chris Rock skit back when he was talking about OJ Simpson. I’m not saying he should have killed her, but I understand it.

And his rationalization came from Marxist revolutionary, Frederick Engels. And Engels had a whole thing where he was talking about social murder, where, you know, if, if capitalists were out there and their workers were dying on the job, you know, if their social murderers are doing that, why not kill them? Why not kill them?

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Again, you know, the same newspaper, the same newspaper, the New York Times, New York Times put this out, condemned and banned a U.S. Senator for writing an op-ed advocating for the use of military to quell the violent protests during the, remember the summer of George, George Floyd. They even fired their own opinion editor.

for putting out an opinion like that, fired them. Jonathan Turley put out a piece on this as well. The suggestion of open hunting season on corporate executives in the interview did not appear to shock or repel Spiegelman, the host of the show. After all, we’re living in an unethical society.

She explained that many felt that the murder of Thompson, the father of two, meant that finally somebody can actually do something about health care.

liberal comedians, as of late, Margaret show this past week declared we need a feral bloodthirsty, violent democrat. I mean, they’re using words now. You know, like I said, you know, we don’t have any longer we don’t have a traditional Republican Party that’s that’s gone. For the most part, same thing with the Democrats. It’s

We’ve allowed like the well the inmates running the asylum, if you will. The people on the extremes running the show. I don’t know because it’s the way people consume media now. But anyway, Spiegelman did concede that it might seem a bit scary for some to start murdering our way to social justice.

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She also explained that shoplifting can be justifiable because people are stealing from Whole Foods, not just for the thrill of it, but out of feeling of anger and moral justification. They also had another liberal on the podcast, Gia Tolentino, the writer for The New Yorker.

the XAD, you know, the podcast, that the rich don’t play by the rules, so why should I? And basically bragging about her experience, what they’re calling it, micro looting, and how it is moral.

I will say I think that stealing from a big box store isn’t significant as a moral wrong, nor is it significant in any way as a protest and basically detailing her own past thefts. I didn’t feel bad about it at all, in part because the store was a corporation. And it certainly felt in a utilitarian sense that I was like, this is not a big deal. Right, guys?

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Bizarre.

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I’m sorry, when you steal from the stores, you’re basically bringing the prices up for anyone. And again, these are these are people that are, you know, cheering on, you know, basically, you know, Mondami with his government grocery store. You’ve got other people over the year defending property crimes.

Washington Post writer Maura Judkis ran a column mocking shoplifting stories as the moral panic of a nation built on stolen land. got what’s her name there? Nicole Hannah Jones, New York Times writer, I think she works at Howard University now. To call night basically told journals not to cover shoplifting crimes.

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Again, don’t, you know, I see this moral breakdown and how they’re trying to mainstream it. Is it dangerous? Absolutely. But what’s more dangerous is trying to brush it under the rug. I want as much light on this as we possibly can have. I want these guys like Cassand Piker out there in the open. We need to be having conversations.

about these people and what they will what they’re doing to the country. I know you can people out there be like well you’re just going to encourage people to do out what.

what that’s going to encourage people to go out and steal and do horrible things. Well, those people are probably not very good people into themselves and they’re going to need to be corrected at some point in time. You you kind of stop blaming, you gotta start blaming whack job podcasters, okay, or people that are in the public sphere, whatever it may be, for other people’s, know, errors judgment.

This country doesn’t work. I’ve talked about this and nauseam here on the program. Country doesn’t work without any sort of, if we have a moral code. And there’s one other song. Again, I try to explain both of this. We have, we obviously have issues here in this country where people are feeling that the country is just not right. It’s not fair. I’ve talked about this many, many times here on the program.

When you read polls and you look at polls and people feel like they can’t get ahead and they’re not going to do as well as their parents. That was just a given here in this country. That was an automatic. Then it’s time to you know, it’s time to time we need to hit the brakes as a nation and reevaluate. Reevaluate every thing we’re doing because again, you know, that’s again we use that line make America great again.

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That’s all you need to do that. That’s all we need to get back to. And you’re going to get you’re going to get pushback. Again, it’s always it always comes down to kitchen table issues. And if young people out there, if they feel like that they can’t get it can’t get ahead, if they feel like that they got the short end of the stick, if they felt like that they did everything right, and they went to college and they can’t find a job, all these things.

People like Son Piker and his ilk, they’re going to resonate. They’re going to resonate. you know, like it or not, OK, I don’t like it. This is something that we really need to deal with. WaxDog on WallStreet.com.