TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Yeah... I can't blame them, the apathy is real on this one, lots of people get murdered everyday, they don't get this coverage, I don't care more because this guy was a rich CEO, feels like the media is overhyping it because the rich are scared that some folks are deciding they need to water the tree of liberty. Pretty sure this is only going to get worse as people get squeezed more and more.
I'm not blanket saying assassination is ok, but I'm also not saying I couldn't consider voting to acquit this guy for jury nullification purposes if I were on the jury.
It’s not even apathy for a lot of people. It’s jubilation that someone whose wealth directly came from making others’ lives shorter and more miserable got his life shortened.
No, I believe it. The problem with capitalists isn't that they have no empathy; most of them do. They just define very narrowly who that empathy applies to, and mostly that narrow line is drawn right around their immediate vicinity. He was probably great to those in his orbit. He just didn't see his customers as human.
New York City experiences hundreds of murders annually. The real question is whether the NYPD will dedicate an equal amount of resources and effort towards solving the murder of a CEO compared to other homicides. Does the life of a wealthy individual hold more importance than those of ordinary citizens?
you probably meant "CEOs" as in referring to the plural of "CEO". when you use "CEO's", you are using a possessive form to refer to a CEO as in "CEO's lack of dignity" or "a CEO's rolling head"
I can't help but feel like these influencers typically fill a role that isn't getting fulfilled, like investigating mysteries or things that fall off the police radar or weren't getting any attention. I very much doubt that a wealthy white man would be a typical subject in the first place.
Though, I'm not really familiar with this genre of the Internet.