Teen Vogue recently published an
op-ed by columnist Kandist Mallett in which she declared that no one should
have the right to own property. She called for the elimination of landlords while
averring that “an eviction crisis is coming” due to the coronavirus pandemic’s
heavy toll on the United States, which, she says, is evidence of “the failures
of capitalism.”
Mallett noted that “The pandemic
didn’t create this housing crisis, but it did further expose the cruelty
of payment-based housing.” No, but she herself may have just exposed the
futility of payment-based higher education.
She rambled on: “Instead of seeing
housing as a right and something that should not be commodified, the state
enlists its own armed forces—sheriffs and police—to remove occupants from
residences if they cannot pay rent. The lack of protections for non-landowners
should be to no surprise from a country founded on the genocide and
colonization of indigenous peoples.”
Mallett ended by stating, “We need
a housing movement based on a rejection of the construct that any one person
should own this earth’s land.” Stupefyingly, Teen Vogue took to Twitter to tout
the piece with an excerpt reading, “While we’re working to abolish the police,
we must also work to dismantle what the police were put here to protect:
property.” Why is a fashion magazine aimed at teenage girls espousing policy
prescriptions to the left of Mao Zedong? We must work to dismantle property? If
the number of young folks currently burning buildings and toppling statues is
any indication, the online rag has some readership--- and some influence. Or
maybe it’s just catching up to what has already occurred and is making an
attempt to seem “cool” and “woker-than-thou.”
No doubt Mallett thinks food and
clothing should also be freed from the cruelty of the current payment-based market
system. Commodities should not be commodified, comrade! Of course, that might
make hypocrites of the fine folks at Teen Vogue. Not that its readers would
notice. If ignorance were a virtue, they would all be Mother Teresas.
If queried, I’m certain Mallett
would say that birth control should be free for all, too. “Oh, and sex toys
like vibes and things.”
In its next issue, Teen Vogue will surely
call for the abolishment of life and liberty, “both mere constructs evolved
from white, patriarchal privilege.”
Has
to catch up with the Democratic Party, you know.
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