Journalist Says Arresting Looters Is an Example of White Supremacy

Is it that seemingly-normal people have really always been nuts? Or is it that social media is, in fact, helping to make them nuts?

Likely, it���s some of both. Chances are probably good that a lot of people with very odd ideas have always been walking in our midst, but with the advent of social media, their lunacy has been given a big, ol��� steroid shot.

Here���s one for you.

After the recent Hurricane Irma devastation that smacked Florida, the Miami Police Department shared a pic on Twitter of some unfortunate-looking souls locked inside of a jail cell, with the message, ���Thinking about looting? Ask these guys how that turned out. #stayindoors.���

Well, as reported by Fox News, one journalist, Sarah L. Jaffe, was most displeased with that tweet, suggesting in her own Twitter response that restraining the criminal behavior was an act of ���white supremacy.��� Here we go:

���the carceral state exists to protect private property and is inseparable from white supremacy.���

Not only is Jaffe saying here that merely having a prison system is tantamount to white supremacy, but that, apparently, having and protecting private property is a white supremacist thing, too.

Or something.

Jaffe is no slouch as a scribe, having been published in a variety of high-profile publications, including The Washington Post and The Atlantic. On this, however, she found herself roundly butchered on social media for her bizarre expression. As one respondent noted, ���They have prisons, crime, and private property in Nigeria too. And Egypt. And India. Nothing to do with white supremacy.���

Obviously. To most of us, anyway.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large