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I knew some preppers and it is pretty frightening. They practice one day a month and apparently the first order of business is to capture and defend a Walmart o
by happyscrappy 11y ago
I knew some preppers and it is pretty frightening. They practice one day a month and apparently the first order of business is to capture and defend a Walmart or similar. These guys are going to be a liability in a crisis.
- Frondo 11y agoYeah, I know, right? Defend a Walmart from what? What exactly is the plan there?
- pjc50 11y ago"Looters". The people coming to the Walmart to "defend" it while taking stuff presumably don't count themselves as looters. Again, hidden racial elements to the discussion. The question of what happens if two preppers or groups of preppers decide to "secure" the same Walmart is not addressed either.
- alphapapa 11y agoWhat's racial about it? I agree that it's rather absurd and short-sighted--not to mention selfish and smacking of hubris--but what's racial about it?
- Frondo 11y agoWhat's racial is how the terms are applied in the media (and how this reinforces people's unthinking internal racial stereotyping): White people "find" things in the aftermath of a disaster, black people "loot" them. Here's an example: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blkatrinalooting.htm http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blkatrinaloot...