No, Brian Thompson Wasn’t a “Working-Class Hero”
Commentators like the New York Times’ Bret Stephens have called slain CEO Brian Thompson a “working-class hero.” You don’t have to condone murder to see through that ridiculous claim about a man who was at the helm of a legalized extortion racket.
I think a lot of rich people don't understand that being rich precludes them from being a part of the working class. They think that because they're working, that must mean they're a working class person. And then that leads to shit like this, rich folk calling other rich folk working-class.
Obviously, there are more reasons for people calling the CEO a working class hero, but I think what I said is still one of those reasons.
Yeah the "hero" part doesn't equal "I made it big therefore I'm a hero"
A real working class hero is a person who did make it big and gave back to the ones beneath them.
Like Luigi
They probably don't consider him in the same class as them at all. I wonder if he wasn't even a 1%-er, maybe more like a 2-3%-er. If you do literally anything other than laying in your money pile eating and shitting and having your mouth and ass wiped with $100 bills you're probably a pleb to them.
Vigilante violence doesn’t lead to enduring systematic change.
Normally I agree with most of jacobin's articles but I don't agree with this. It's pretty obvious that things have already changed, even if it's just temporary. (Speaking as a non American spectator at least tbf)
It's strange to cite what may be "just temporary" changes when you're quoting "enduring systematic change"
Yeah that's fair, I did actually notice what I wrote kind of argued against itself 😅. My counterpoint would be that it's clear there's more work to be done to make it not temporary
We could just depose them all and find out. I mean, that’s what they do to us.
Has he heard of the French revolution? That was a bit of lasting change
looks at current French government
More like working class traitor.
Yeah he wasn't one.
Doesn't matter that he came from money. He saw an imbalance of power and did something about it.
I get it!
Random acts of violence won't work.
Random acts of violence
Random acts
