Article: “Nearly 85 percent of those arrested or cited in connection with shoplifting calls at Eagan’s new outlet mall were people of color, according to a Star Tribune analysis of nearly 1,000 calls to police in the first eight months the center was open.”
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* It is in the interest of SJWs that the rules of hate speech be ever shifting and ambiguous in order to keep the bad people off balance (people who don’t closely follow the twists and turns of the Party Line are automatically bad people) . That way, they can get you any time that they want, especially since the internet produces an indelible paper trail going back decades. If a fellow SJW makes an innocent mistake (as is inevitable) you can just ignore it (at least for as long as he or she remains a SJW in good standing), since you control the megaphone. In any case, as we have seen with the N-word, it’s OK for colored people (oops, I mean people of color) to break the rules – only white people (esp. straight white males) are capable of racism.
* > I’m sure a lot of these outlets stores are big name places who get their merchandise extremely cheap from Latin American and Chinese slave labor (e.g., Macy’s). Accept that a certain amount will be stolen and just consider it part of the cost of doing business.
That’s largely what the upscale department stores do. An expensive department store like Saks or a high-end clothing store like Banana Republic tends to make very high operating margins. Shoplifting’s a small impact, and they usually won’t go through the legal and PR bother of prosecuting anything unless it’s at least hundreds of dollars.
In contrast a low-end discount store has very thin margins. Wad-Mart makes $0.03 for every dollar of merchandise sold. If they let only 1.5% of their merchandise be shoplifted, that immediately cuts their entire profits in half. Therefore they experience a much higher impact from shoplifting and tend to be much more vigorous about prosecuting it.
