Manifest Malice
/Just months after a small minority of fringe voices within America praised illegal attacks targeting its next president, a rich and influential business leader was murdered on the streets of New York. United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was allegedly killed by twenty-six year old Luigi Mangione. The victim was a white, wealthy, male, and the resulting praise for his death and assailant has been quite something to behold. Several people across the country have supported this brazen vigilante crime. Mangione has quickly gathered admirers and supporters akin to other infamous criminals such as Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. I wonder if his victim had been a woman of a different cultural background would these supporters feel differently? Weeks later a female teenager would carry out the thirty-ninth school shooting within the United States this year…
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