What a load of criminal-apologist bullshit, Erin. Based on your history, I’d say you deserve to be fired once again. What a joke.

What a shitty article. The rampant theft is bad, but much worse is the bullshit excuses for it.

But this strikes me more as desperate, wholesale looting than property crime, and we should expect to see more of it as we ignore the mass suffering caused by rampant income inequality.

Transient product distributors, obviously.

Imagine the mother lode of finding the REI car.  You’d be set for homeless life!

You may think people do crime because they have to, but more often than not it’s simply because they can so why not.

jesus i’m sick and tired of people justifying theft. argue all you want about mOdeRn AmEricA bEing uNfAIr!!!! and BiLliOnaIres gEttInG RicHeR!!!! but there’s a 99% chance this is done by professional, organized theft rings as opposed to some desperate unemployed person breaking into a goddam train car to feed his…

These people are not stealing to survive. They are opportunists. The economy and CEO salaries are absolutely irrelevant.

“Yeah, it’s wrong, but justifiable since there are rich people out there.”

Stop condoning criminal behavior. This is wrong. C’mon, Erin. 

This is a dumb fucking take.

You see, Erin, the sort of anger you’ve sparked in your readership is exactly what the Times was trying to avoid when they let you go. This article could’ve had 2 sentences removed or reworded, it would’ve conveyed the same story, and no one would’ve been upset. You need to consider how much you’re writing your own…

Right. It seems very immature. That’s all. Like this take she posted. I’d expect this from a ~16 year old in high school. Not an adult working in the real world.

I can’t find that, what happened?

Yeah not really.. if you look at the highest clicked/commented-on pieces on Jalopnik, they’re not junk like this.

I fail to understand your distinction between Wholesale Looting and Property Crime.  While not all property crime is looting, (vandalism, arson) all looting is property crime.

Thanks. The messages that she left, and was subsequently fired over, read like a teenager who can’t control their emotions.  

Your excusing criminal behavior so casually identifies you as a seriously dysfunctional person. As you mentioned in passing, some of those packages contained life-critical medication.

https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/29408/detroit_journalist_erin_marquis_fired_by_ny_times_for_calls_to_gun_rights_group

Holy shit that is an awful take. Like absolute trash-tier.

C’mon Erin, this is a crap take.  Excusing stealing is not a good look.