"Experts" blasted for telling public to not use term "looting" to describe California looters

Alleged experts Monday cautioned against using the term "looting" to describe the recent large-scale looting and destruction of property from California retail stores because it might be associated with people of color and that would make whoever the looters are, feel upset.

Perhaps we should refer to looters as "retail products acquisition engineers." We wouldn't want to offend them.

Some reacted to the claims made by these self-described "experts" of verbiage online and not so complimentary.

A government looter innocently whistling as she makes off with a coat load of stuff

According to the local ABC affiliate for the Bay Area, the California Penal Code didn't allow for the use of the term "looting" to describe the thefts involving large groups of people because, it claimed, the definition didn't match the act as defined by law. 

And we should care how the law terms bum-rushing a store and stealing items off the shelves because why?

The network also cited two individuals it referred to as "experts," who described the term as being reminiscent of Black people and people of color being associated with the act of looting. They gave no actual examples of when this happened or who used this term in such a manner, but if ABC says they're experts, who are we peons to disagree?

"According to the California Penal Code, what we saw was not looting," it wrote. 

What we saw was worse than simple looting, which is basically taking booty which was not yours during a "state of emergency," "local emergency," or "evacuation order." 

What happened in California was more like a coordinated attack on local businesses with the intent of obtaining merchandise that would likely be resold at a later date, while terrorizing store employees and customers, destroying store property and taking advantage of California's laws which decriminalizes theft below $950.

Alleged expert Lorenzo Boyd, a guy I go to when I need to know what not to call looting, is a professor of Criminal Justice and Community Policing at the University of New Haven. As an obvious progressive, Boyd described the term "looting" through a racist lens, just as everything else the Left disagrees with is likewise described.

"Looting is a term that we typically use when people of color or urban dwellers are doing something. We tend not to use that term for other people when they do the exact same thing," he told ABC.

And just because the looters used the Kyle Rittenhouse 'not guilty' verdict to excuse their looting, is no reason to use the term "experts" say.

ABC admitted they didn't know the races or identities of the looters but just in case they aren't white it's best we don't call them looters so we can avoid any problems.

Some critics pointe out that it wouldn't make any difference if we called them looters or whatever else we use to describe their criminal behavior. 

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One critic compared the pushback on using the term "looting" to people claiming critical race theory was taught only in law schools and not to school-age children. "There was no looting. As a matter of fact, 'looting' is only a term used in law school," he wrote.

"It’s looting. Just like there were riots in Kenosha, not just protests," former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wrote, referring to the unrest in Kenosha following the non-fatal police shooting of Jacob Blake.

"'Experts.' Remember-- they believe if they can control the language they control reality. Time to 'smash and grab' this garbage," Fox News' contributor Tammy Bruce wrote, while another simply wrote, "Umm ok."

So call it looting. Call it stealing. Call it retail products acquisition engineering.

It is what it is.

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