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Rumpus Book ClubLooting in Haiti?
The Awl takes a look at “looting” in Haiti, rather how the story of “looting” has overtaken the media.
“‘Looters,” reported the Wall Street Journal yesterday from Port-au-Prince, “were scaling a crumpled building, apparently a grocery store, and throwing items to the assembled throng below.” That “looting” is traditionally construed to mean illegally obtaining goods for one’s own benefit—not for the benefit of a waiting crowd of the recently homeless—seems to have entirely escaped these reporters.”
Also, give money, unless you have a helicopter.
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