London's Burning

[classicman]

Interesting interview from a couple girls:

Consider what an unnamed girl told a BBC reporter to explain why she and others looted local shops:

“It’s the rich people. The rich people have got businesses, and that’s why all this has happened. We’re just showing the rich people we can do what we want.”

We’re just showing the rich people we can do what we want. And what they want is not to be paid more for working less, or anything else out of the anti-capitalist’s textbook. It’s extremely unlikely these girls have or want jobs, given their age and behavior: One generally doesn’t take a day off work to smash the windows of an off-track betting parlor and make off with its flat-screen televisions.

No, what they want is just to take what the rich people have.

And where could they have gotten such a notion? Try the ideology they’ve been spoon-fed since birth, just like their parents and, by this point, their parents’ parents.

Yes the writer is skewed, but unfortunately, there is some merit to what he says as well.