The problem with the concern trolling about looting is that it prioritizes one form of theft (which is fairly small in scale) over the theft of life, of livelihood, of labor, of property, of freedom from black people. Without out those centuries of theft, vast majority of people looting now would not be doing so, because we wouldn't live in a society like we do now and George Floyd and countless others would not be dead. The unrest is a direct result of centuries of theft and oppression that the foundations of this country are built on.
And yes there are opportunists, but that's what our society teaches. Bezos is an opportunist, Jobs was an opportunist, Gates is an opportunist, Buffet is an opportunist, Rockefeller and Carnegie and Ford were opportunists. They all looted, whether it was from the underpaid, undervalued labor of their employees, or from the environment and land, from the idea's of other creators, from the labor and land and property and governments and people of other countries, or from our own government and society in the form of tax breaks and loopholes and lobbying. You think people don't see that, and see the hagiographies of these men, and not internalize that? They do, they recognize it and they want to loot and enrich themselves too. "Rules for thee, but not for me" has been the motto of the country since it was founded, and people see through that and act out because they know this social contract is bullshit and only they are expected to uphold the bargain.
She and Trevor Noah are 100% right. I'm not gonna sit here and act like I like looting and theft. I don't. But I have very little energy for anger at that behavior from these people, given the scale of theft and oppression inflicted upon them. That's what makes me angry.
