Why do some people feel like it's OK to laugh at the murder of an insurance exec?
A mix of people's shared experiences of being denied coverage, a desire to blame someone for a bad experience + social media is unhinged, says biostatistician Rachael Piltch-Loeb. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-thompson-murder-celebrated-online_n_67536ffce4b0b9c809f83ba8
A mix of people's shared experiences of being denied coverage, a desire to blame someone for a bad experience + social media is unhinged, says biostatistician Rachael Piltch-Loeb. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-thompson-murder-celebrated-online_n_67536ffce4b0b9c809f83ba8
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look at the effort law enforcement has put into finding his killer. do they did exert the same energy for everyone murdered in NYC? peasants killed a lord
But one young man in NYC had the answer all along.
Vigilante murders aren't justice, but to many people this more closely resembles justice than almost anything we see regularly. In insurance, but just in general. We're a rotten society and this feels like something less rotten.
we're just... not sad about it
I'm just glad I do not live in NYC and thus could NEVER be a part of the jury pool, because I could NEVER vote to convict this man.
And they’re right.
A mob was also responsible for the storming of the Bastille.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storming_of_the_Bastille
Things need to change; that’s for certain. But to put the onus on the public instead of those in power just breeds more contempt.
The French Revolution was not a civil war. It was a class war. And it could happen again.
Unfortunately, this could be a spark that lights the fire of change. Whether anyone likes it or not.
I don’t intend to join any torch and pitchfork wielding mobs.
But to say to the people suffering, “Do Not Kill,” without also saying to the rich & powerful, “Do Not Make Them Want To Kill,” is tone deaf.
This is a two-way street.