iāve seen a LOT of anti-lĆÆfting posts lately, and i think it has to do with the looting. (also to clarify, this post is NOT about looting, it is about LĆFTING. if you want to know what i think about looting, send me an ask and iāll make a post.)
everyone has different reasons for lĆÆfting. the lĆÆfting community is diverse, close-knit, supportive, and does it out of necessity and/or as a form of protest. i do not align my blog with people who do it to be quirky or cute or edgy. also, yāall act like the lĆÆfting community is robbing mom and pop stores. we arenāt. the majority of us lĆÆft from big box stores that have been built on the labor of oppressed people.
i started lĆÆfting because in 8th grade, my parents started charging me for living with them. i have not been able to afford buying clothes for years. and my inability to buy clothes isnāt related to my own motivation or willingness to work or earn my own money- it is a direct result of a harmful, discriminatory capitalist system that exploits poc and benefits from the oppression of poc. i know yāall are going to say that i donāt need clothes. but itās bigger than clothes- i speak for the entire community- and they say that they need it because theyāre starving, theyāre unhappy, theyāre struggling. even if we ignore food, which you cannot deny is a necessity, poor people deserve clothes, makeup, and other nice things that will make them happy.
why are you mad at US for employees being laid off rather than the brands owned by billionaires that decide to lay off their employees because a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise goes missing. redirect your anger towards the capitalist pigs rather than those who have to turn to crime in order to access the same things that rich people access. why are you mad at us for trying to outsmart a system that LITERALLY wonāt provide us with necessities or things that make our lives worth living.
