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Can you tell me the difference between these finders and this looter?

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[msanborn.livejournal.com]

ummmm the looter is non-caucasian.

what do I win?

[ellf.livejournal.com]

Institutional racism, baby!

(Do you read SE?)

[mountainheather.livejournal.com]

Another person on my friends list posted that too. Crazy, huh?

[ladyravn.livejournal.com]

Maybe the first two people found it floating in the water in the area of the grocery store, and the third person actually went into the store and took it? Just a thought.

[the-gil-monster.livejournal.com]

...FOUR!

..."What is" The MONARCH Butterfly?

...MAN! Because it crawls as a baby and uses a cane in its autumn years!

I'd like to ask the audience! I think I'm gonna go with "YAHOO NEWS ARE TURD ROCKETS!"

That's my final answer Regis!

[opheliaspins.livejournal.com]

I'd just call it racism.

[proserpia.livejournal.com]

who writes the quips that go with the photos? Because if it is the photographers, take note that the photos were taken by two different people. So, it may be one person's point of view that they took stuff, while the other person's POV that the person was a looter.

Either way, those people are trying to survive and neither party should receive the harsh title of "looter" when they were taking life essential supplies.

Anyhow, I'd agree that it is racism.

[tenthz.livejournal.com]

Looters use black plastic garbage bags.

[missvicky.livejournal.com]

oh my! the looter is worried he's going to get caught. Eh, let the guy take the shit. His whole life's gone down the toilet--literally.

[electricpaladin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm inclined to think that the black person is not a looter because of the plastic bag. It makes (her?) look more like someone fleeing a flooded home with all (her?) most important possessions in a relatively water-tight carrier. The other two have so little in the way of posessions, it makes me think they're out to remedy that with a little selective finding.

[last-soldier.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you too have noticed the blatant racism in some of the hurricane coverage?

I'd like to think that the real difference between looting and just trying to survive the crisis is all in what you get. If you're taking food, water, diapers, and that sort of stuff, that's what people need to get along, so that's you surviving. But if you're taking unecessary material objects, then you're just a looter.