re: "Looters" is code language for "blacks". Just like "redneck" is code language for whites who come out of a racist background.
I checked the dictionary and while redneck is a racial term looter is not
red·neck ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rdnk)
n. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.
A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.
loot ( P ) Pronunciation Key (lt)
n.
Valuables pillaged in time of war; spoils.
Stolen goods.
Informal. Goods illicitly obtained, as by bribery.
Informal. Things of value, such as gifts, received on one occasion.
Slang. Money.
v. loot·ed, loot·ing, loots
v. tr.
To pillage; spoil.
To take as spoils; steal.
v. intr.
To engage in pillaging.
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[Hindi l, from Sanskrit loptram, lotram, plunder. See reup- in Indo-European Roots.]
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looter n.
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looter
n : someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: plunderer, pillager, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter] |
